Clare Donegan, who runs EmpowerHer. a free counselling service for Irish and Northern Irish women affected by gambling, echoes the point. “A lot of the time it’s women in care-giving roles. It’s the mother or the person looking after someone with a disability.” If they have one thing in common it is a desire for...
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Liam Payne: All One Direction studio albums return to UK top 40 as fans mourn singer’s death
The 31-year-old Wolverhampton-born singer fell from the third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last week and was found dead at the scene by police officers and the emergency services. The band’s 2013 album, Midnight Memories, which contains the hit songs, Best Song Ever and Story Of My Life, returns at...
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Gambling is ‘public health threat,’ panel of experts says
Gambling has emerged as “a neglected, understudied, and expanding public health threat” throughout the world, a panel wrote in The Lancet medical journal Thursday. What You Need To Know Gambling has emerged as “a neglected, understudied, and expanding public health threat” throughout the world, a panel wrote in The Lancet medical journal Thursday The Lancet’s Public Health...
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Gambling poses huge global threat to public health, experts warn
Gambling poses a growing worldwide threat to public health, with its rapid expansion via mobile phones and the internet harming far more people than previously thought, a report warns. Much stronger global regulatory controls are urgently needed to curb the impact of commercial gambling on global health and wellbeing, a group of leading experts in...
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Online Sports Betting Is Gaining Popularity — at the Expense of Traditional Investing
The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average notched new records this month as earnings season kicked off. However, while the major indices continue hitting all-time highs and a record share of Americans now own stocks, a growing number of investors appear to be vacating the market in favor of sports betting. A July study...
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Bally Sports to become FanDuel Sports Network: What MLB, NBA, NHL teams are affected
Watch this toddler with an amazing memory for NFL and MLB show tunes 3-year-old sports fan Austin, from Charlotte, North Carolina, names TV sports shows and networks just by hearing their theme tunes. Sportskind, USA Today The sports gambling company attached to the struggling group of regional sports networks with local broadcast rights for more...
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England legend Michael Owen reacts to Thomas Tuchel hiring with ‘disappointment he’s not English’ but says the manager is ‘top quality’
Michael Owen has admitted he is ‘disappointed’ that the next England manager is not English after Thomas Tuchel was announced as the new national team boss. The German was confirmed as Gareth Southgate’s successor on an 18-month contract on Wednesday to become England’s third foreign manager after Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello. Ever since the...
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Louisville Cardinals, Kentucky Wildcats make AP preseason top 25 women’s basketball poll
Louisville women’s basketball coach Jeff Walz discusses upcoming season Louisville women’s basketball coach Jeff Walz says he’s excited about the upcoming season with his offseason additions to the team. Sam Upshaw Jr. A youthful Louisville women’s basketball team will begin the season ranked 17th while Kentucky’s first season under Kenny Brooks begins with a No....
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UK must build power infrastructure including pylons ‘at speed’, expert warns
The UK will need to build more pylons, including in areas where people do not want them, communities have been warned. Emma Pinchbeck, who has been appointed as the new chief executive of the independent advisory Climate Change Committee but was speaking in her current role as head of industry body Energy UK, said the...
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Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul odds show divide between betting public and sportsbooks
Michael Page doesn’t like the idea of Mike Tyson fighting Jake Paul Sports Seriously’s Tony Anderson talks with mixed martial artist Michael “Venom” Page about the upcoming Tyson vs Paul fight happening this summer. Sports Seriously A divide exists between the betting public and top oddsmakers less than five weeks before the heavyweight fight between...
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Leach leads England rout of Pakistan in first Test
England go one up in three-Test series after humbling defeat for Pakistan as records tumbled in Multan. England’s bowlers, led by spinner Jack Leach, tore through the Pakistan lineup to secure victory in the first Test in Multan on Friday after a record partnership between Harry Brook and Joe Root turned the match on its...
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Daughter, 36, ‘frittered away’ £150,000 of her parent’s money including on online gambling after brutally murdering them – as she faces life sentence
A woman who murdered her parents then lived alongside their bodies for four years as she stole almost £150,000 of money in their names is facing a life sentence. Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with sleeping pills before beating her 71-year-old mother Lois McCullough and stabbing her to death at their house...