UK News 26-11-2004 who: National Consumer Council what: Says children as young as 10 are addicted to shopping when: Yesterday snippet: "The NCC survey of 10-to 19-year-olds is timed to coincide with UK`s Buy Nothing Day on November 27," says The Efvening Standard`s website, thisislondon.com. "It reveals that, despite their love of shopping, eight out of 10 (78 per cent) young people think that we all buy things we don`t really need." In other survey news, The Evening Standard`s website, thisislondon.com, researchers commissioned by Odeon cinemas have found that celebrities at film premieres "flash 59% of their body on the red carpet" and if they continue the trend, they will be revealing 75% of their bodies by 2010. [... more]

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