The Scottish Breast Cancer Campaign urges retailer Boots to stop stocking a device that it is claimed helps women detect breast abnormalities.
The MoD asks people to donate to forces charities instead of sending Christmas parcels to front-line troops in Afghanistan.
The Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad is to benefit from sales of a new book based on 1970s children's TV programme Ivor the Engine.
Rage Against The Machine have pledged to donate proceeds from sales of their single - which is pitched against the single from the winner of The X Factor in the race to be Christmas number 1 - to UK charity Youth Music.
