Serious collector has created a site devoted to bubble blowers - big and small, expensive and free, cute and ugly, old and new - and to related items.

http://bubbleblowers.com/

Canadian Toy Collector Society

Promotes interest in collecting and displaying childhood memorabilia. Maintains collection of toys of historic importance.

http://www.ctcs.org/

Graand

Free Classified Ads Portal

www.graand.com

Collector Guide to Modern Toys

Links and reference information on toy lines, manufacturers and toy sellers.

http://www.geocities.com/toys_nz/

The Duckie Goddess

Features Kristal's rubber duck collection. Includes pictures, and links.

http://www.imbri.org/ducks/

Duckplanet

Features photos of rubber duck collection, articles, a game, and a community forum.

http://www.duckplanet.com/

Grasshopper Toys

A searchable directory of toy sites with an emphasis on tin toys, stuffed animals and dolls.

http://www.grasshopper-toys.com

Greig's Online Toy Museum

Devoted to Airfix Models especially eagles action figures, role-playing games, monster, and fast food toys. Includes pictures, and links.

http://www.btinternet.com/~valandgreig.chisholm/collectables/

Jack's Play Money

Collector of play money offers list of money for sale including game money, paper money, and plastic coins. Includes list and description.

http://www.geocities.com/jackphillips/pmjack/

Kaitlin's Sylvanian Site

Features information for collectors of Sylvanian Families and Calico Critters. Photo album, SF Gazette, want list, and links included.

http://sylvanians.tripod.com/

Museum of the City of New York - Toy Collection

Features amusements used by New Yorkers from the Colonial period to the present. Includes pictures and descriptions.

http://www.mcny.org/collections/105.html

National Toy Hall of Fame

Features articles on toy inductees from previous years and provides a form to nominates new toys.

http://www.strongmuseum.org/NTHoF/NTHoF.html

The Official Robo Force Page

Dedicated to the memory of the toy series robots, lead by Maxx Steele. Includes pictures and descriptions.

http://www.i-mockery.com/roboforce/

The Retro Rubber Ducky

Shares rubber ducks collected including pictures, polls, and related links.

http://www.angelfire.com/retro/rubberducky/

Stewart's Attic

Offers sale of comic books and collectibles including Marx Mint Johnny West figures, knights, horses, and vintage Marx toys. Includes value guide.

http://www.stewartsattic.com/

Stingray's Hideaway

Vintage toys including Fisher Price, Little Tikes, Playskool, Matchbox, Tupperware. Galleries, links and webring.

http://stingrays.tripod.com/toymuseum/index.html

Super Toy Archive

Features images and information on playthings of the 70's, 80's, and 90's including Transformers, Care Bears, Mega Man, Rambo, GI Joe, and Indiana Jones.

http://www.toyarchive.com/

Tinkerville

Features photographs of rare Japanese Tamagotchi with English instructions, growth charts, virtual pets, and ChibiBotto by Tiger Electronics of Bandai.

http://tinkerville.com/

Toy Sightings

Provides discussion board for toy collectors where users can share toy sightings.

http://p201.ezboard.com/btoysightings

Toys From the Sixties

Collector shares variety of past childhood playthings including Odd Ball and King Zor, produced by Ideal. Includes links.

http://spookshows.com/toys/

Toyzine.com

Offers services to individuals and businesses in the antique and collectible toy industry including online retailing, for sale and wanted classifieds, e-magazine, newsletter, appraisal and valuation services.

http://www.toyzine.com/

US Marine Toys for Tots Foundation

Raises funds to provide toys to supplement the collections of local coordinators and defray the costs of conducting annual Toys for Tots campaigns.

http://www.toysfortots.org/

Wacky Wobbler Wonderland

Resource for nodder and Wacky Wobbler bobbing head toy collectors. Variety includes Sports, Speed Racer, and Mr. T. Includes news, list of wobblers, and retired.

http://wackywonderland.tripod.com/

Wild Republic

Interactive site for owners of Wild Republic stuffed animals. News, games, stories, and location of stores to purchase plush toys.

http://www.wildrepublic.com/

UK Honda staff facing redundancy

800 workers at Honda in Northamptonshire face redundancy, following news the F1 team is up for sale.

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UK universities' fortunes diverge

Universities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are losing ground to those in England, a report says.

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Plan for £12m stroke ad campaign

A campaign will be launched by the government in the new year to help people remember what the first symptoms of stroke are.

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After 35 years, Wogan bids adieu to Eurovision

Sir Terry Wogan is being replaced by Graham Norton as commentator on the Eurovision Song Contest.

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Secondary school closures agreed

A council agrees to close three secondary schools and create a new Welsh medium school as part of its reorganisation plans.

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Cash glow

How much does a street light cost for one night?

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Send your video, pictures and story ideas

Have you got a good story? BBC News wants to hear from you.

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Carmakers 'affect entire US economy'

General Motors boss Rick Wagoner and his Ford counterpart Alan Mulally admit making mistakes in the way they ran the firms.

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Pakistan dilemma

Relations with India strained in wake of the Mumbai attacks

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Pompey crash out after defeat

Portsmouth exit the Uefa Cup after they lose to Bundesliga side Wolfsburg.

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Bank cuts UK rates to 57-year low

The Bank of England has cut interest rates by one percentage point from 3% to 2%, their lowest level since 1951.

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Sound of 2009

Watch and hear music's rising stars on BBC longlist

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HET will continue 'crucial work'

The special police team set up to investigate murders during the troubles is to make 75 staff redundant.

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Interest rates

Which lenders are passing on the rate cuts to customers?

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London calling: historic phone call made by Queen is marked

A hi-tech celebration will mark 50 years since the first long-distance phone call without using an operator.

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Warning over internet painkillers

UK experts issue a warning after a study showed wide availability of strong painkillers over the internet.

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Kenya PM calls for Mugabe removal

Power-sharing in Zimbabwe is dead and Africa must unite to oust President Mugabe, says Kenya's prime minister.

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DNA dilemma

Will European ruling result in more unsolved crimes?

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Rhys killing 'appalled country'

The murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones was a killing which appalled the whole country, a judge tells a jury in his summing up.

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Serbia's hunt for Mladic broadens

Serbian police launch raids in Belgrade in an intensified hunt for war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, but no-one is arrested.

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Mother guilty over Shannon kidnap

Shannon Matthews's mother and co-accused Michael Donovan are convicted of kidnapping the nine-year-old in a plot to claim a £50,000 reward.

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Open roads

50 years ago the motorway was an empty haven

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Villa through despite Uefa Cup loss

Aston Villa fall to a shock defeat to MSK Zilina but still reach the Uefa Cup's last 32, thanks to Hamburg's victory over Slavia Prague.

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Nasa delays its next Mars mission

The US space agency (Nasa) has delayed the launch of its Mars Science Laboratory rover mission from 2009 to 2011.

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Honda poised to quit Formula One

Japanese car giant Honda will withdraw from Formula One on Friday and place its team up for sale, BBC Sport understands.

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