Museum stores booming as cultural shoppers seek out 'gifts with soul'

• National Trust hails best ever year for gift sales • Souvenirs provide vital income amid finance fears Tumbleweed may be blowing down the aisles of some of the high street's most famous shops but the tills at Britain's stately homes and museums are ringing as if it's Christmas. The National Trust says 2009 looks likely to be its commercial arm's "biggest ever year" as perfumed drawer liners and lemon curd prove to be the season's must-haves. Its flagship stores at properties such as Giants Causeway...