LONDON, December 23 - From "pound-stretcher" holidays to girly getaways for "football widows", 2010 is set to be a year dominated by recession-busting travel deals, big sporting events and "micro" bursts of luxury as Brits seek a quick antidote to frugal living.

TSX.V - GMG VANCOUVER, Canada, December 22 - Robert L. Card, President of Gulfside Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:GMG) ("Gulfside" or the "Company"), is pleased to report that Phase 1 of Gulfside's drilling program on the Onjuul coal project in Mongolia has been successfully completed. The Company has completed 10 planned holes in this phase, with an additional 10 or more holes planned to be completed during Phase 2.

Head of Nestle European Supply Chain to Be Keynote Speaker LOMBARD, Illinois, December 22 - The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) will hold its sixth annual European conference and research seminar in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March 24-26, 2010.

HULL, England and FT. SASKATCHEWAN, Canada, December 22 - The Advanced Wound Management division of Smith & Nephew plc (LSE: SN; NYSE: SNN), announced today that its affiliates have completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Nucryst Pharmaceuticals Corp. ("Nucryst") (Nasdaq: NCST; TSX: NCS). The acquisition includes the manufacturing assets from Nucryst's Fort Saskatchewan, Canada operations and the intellectual property estate.

TORONTO, Canada, December 22 - Today, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Washington D.C., a panel of three judges returned their ruling on the appeal of i4i v. Microsoft and upheld jury's verdict and all the findings of the August 11, 2009 Final Judgment that ruled in favor of i4i and found that Microsoft had willfully infringed i4i's U.S. Patent No. 5,787,449, issued in 1998.