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The NHS is to open its first clinic for young gambling addicts. There is a rise in concern of online gaming sites and targeted adverts addicting young people. The National Problem Gambling Clinic will offer support to people ages 13 to 25. It is part of a increase of support for those who have a…
The Bank of Scotland have been fined £45.5m for not alerting the authorities to early indications of a fraud which jailed six people. The fines relate to an incident in 2007 by the head of the bank’s impaired assets team, Lynden Scourfield. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have announced the bank knew he had been…
Sadiq Khan has announced plans to implement London’s biggest car-free day to date closing 12.3 miles of roads in the centre of the capital. The event is said to take place on September 22nd. Roads will be closed around London Bridge, Tower Bridge and most of the city of London, this is to tackle the…
A charity has warned that children’s hospice in England will be forced to cut services or shut unless the NHS increases its funding. One of the hospices, Acorns, has said it will have no choice but to close later this year unless it can raise more than £1.5 million. If it closes this means more…
Heathrow Airport will create a third runway by 2026 and complete its expansion by 2050 according to the “masterplan” which has just been published. The plans include diverting rivers, moving roads and rerouting the M25 through a tunnel under the new runway. Heathrow have said the plans will have low emissions zones and congestion charges…
A man who robbed a bank with a banana has been jailed for a year and 2 months. Dorset Police said Laurence Vonderdell entered the bank and approached one of the tills on the morning of 25 March, with a covered banana in a plastic bag (trying to disguise it as a gun), pointing it…
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