23 h. ago Support programme aims to address ‘highly addictive’ nature of modern gambling

Chapter One has been developed by Gambling with Lives, a charity founded in 2018 by families bereaved by gambling suicide.

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59 h. ago M&S shoppers rush to get hands on 'incredible' spread that's 'highly addictive'

Sweet treat fans are racing to M&S to get their hands on a viral pistachio spread that launched last month - as people say it is 'highly addictive' and offered it a rating of 10/10

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63 h. ago All North Lanarkshire Council housing tenants to receive free internet access

The long-term connectivity plan to deliver free digital access to 36,575 homes, aims to address digital exclusion, which can create barriers to knowledge, opportunity, skills and employability.

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7 d. ago Keep dancing: Chanel DaSilva on taking risks, dealing with grief and tackling Trump

As she brings A Shadow Work to the UK, the New York choreographer talks about therapy, ‘pulling up women with me’ and art-led activismChanel DaSilva has always been a dancer. “I felt completely free,” she says of her first class. “I felt at home. Like I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing. And it’s weird to know that at the age of three.” The New Yorker, 38, is a rising star choreographer in the US, with credits including Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet, and is about to make her international debut in London.DaSilva’s dance style has been described as “technique meets humanity”, in the sense that she draws on the precision and virtuosity of classical and modern dance, but brings in a freedom and naturalism. The piece she has made here for the company Ballet Black, called A Shadow Work, is in part about dealing with grief over the death of her mother when DaSilva was 19. At the time, trying to get through her college education, she couldn’t cope with it. “So I packed up that g...

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1 week ago Ben Stokes is cricket’s last action hero – the ODI captaincy can be his Viking funeral | Barney Ronay

Instincts are to protect England’s Test captain, but he’s the functioning brain of Bazball. It’s hard to think of anyone better to lead the ODI teamThis column is about the rise of high-end supermarket cheddar cheese that has delicious and addictive crunchy crystals in it. What are these exactly? And is everything just basically crisps now? This column is about the MCC being needlessly given tens of millions of pounds because the England and Wales Cricket Board sold a hat that isn’t really a hat, just the promise of a brightly coloured future-hat.This column is about cricket umpires being reduced progressively to a theatre of facial expressions, from the brave, wounded “you’re on screen, please reverse your decision”, to the screw-you triumphalism of the confirmatory finger to an empty set of stumps. Michael Caine once said that while doing a closeup you should always stare at a fixed point, always into one eye not both eyes of your scene partner. Do we need to train Joel Wilson in ...

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1 week ago Sasami: Blood on the Silver Screen review – a quirky move to the mainstream

(Domino)The US artist segues from industrial metal to radio-friendly pop most memorable for its vividly relatable lyricsSasami Ashworth’s gentle indie rock debut, Sasami (2019), felt reasonably familiar to fans of her previous band, Cherry Glazerr; the bracingly industrial metal of 2022’s Squeeze less so. Now the California musician has moved into sprightly, shiny pop for her third solo album, picking over matters of the heart. And the groin – apparently, Lana Del Rey-alike Nothing But a Sad Face On is about Eve’s mixed emotions after being “banished from the Garden of Eden for fucking a snake”. Don’t fret if you can’t recall that precise bible story; Ashworth has plenty more relatable tales of compromised, messy modern-day dating.Pop may not always come naturally to her. Most of Ashworth’s choruses linger on the ear no longer than a lost ladybird, and the deft Taylor Swift via Grimes-sounding production can’t conceal a dearth of durable material. But Slugger is surefooted, summery ...

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2 w. ago NHS Lanarkshire’s Quit Your Way team launches programme as part of research study to support smoke

Study being led by researchers at the University of Stirling in partnership with the health board and the University of Glasgow.

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2 w. ago Major calls for government intervention into ketamine ‘epidemic’ killing off young Brits

Richard Middleton warned that more young adults are at risk of death from the ‘highly addictive and harmful’ drug unless the Home Office takes action

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3 w. ago Rishi Sunak ‘honoured’ to become prostate cancer charity ambassador

The former prime minister will support Prostate Cancer Research’s campaign to introduce a national screening programme for high-risk men.

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