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Nine years ago, Lewis Morgan was working two jobs – scrubbing dirty dishes as a pot wash and selling mens clothes in the high street chain Burton. Less than a decade later he’s worth a staggering £125m and is in the process of building his own £1.5m house. He’s set up, run and sold the […]
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The Bucks obviously want to keep Giannis Antetokounmpo, who can become an unrestricted free agent in 2021. The Heat are in hot pursuit (and just made a strong case during these playoffs). The Raptors and Warriors covet Antetokounmpo. The Clippers and Lakers have also been linked to the MVP. And then there are the Mavericks. […]
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Limiting the hours of television advertising for foods and beverages high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) could make a meaningful contribution to reducing childhood obesity, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Oliver Mytton of the University of Cambridge, UK, and colleagues. Childhood obesity is a global problem with […]
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French billionaire Xavier Niel has teamed up with Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s URW.AS former boss to oppose the shopping mall group’s planned 3.5 billion euro ($4.10 billion) rights issue, lifting the shares on Thursday. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Europe’s biggest property owner, hit back saying its board of directors strongly disagreed with the proposals from the Niel-led consortium. Niel, founder of […]
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Miso Robotics is one of the many firms trying to automate food preparation, and today, it announced that its latest machine — which places its burger-flipping bot Flippy on rails to move it about the kitchen more easily — is now on sale globally. Prices for the contraption (known as the Flippy Robot-on-a-Rail or Flippy […]
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A driver launched an armed police officer off the bonnet of his Mercedes onto the pavement after ploughing into him in terrifying footage. Aydin Altun, 26, was facing arrest at gunpoint in Tottenham on October 29 last year when he ploughed his vehicle into Pc Lewis Crowder. Pc Crowder and two of his colleagues in […]
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The Nets – with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving getting healthy – will try to be taken more seriously next season. They’ll do so while wearing these tie-dye throwback uniforms. Nets: These uniforms were ridiculous when the Nets wore them in 1990-91. They’re ridiculous now. But they have just enough nostalgia and zaniness to be […]
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While growing up in the Philippines, Lady Dorothy Elli witnessed childhood hunger and poverty that left her with lasting impressions. She has made it her mission to address the problem of food insecurity and the negative impact it can have on the academic and personal well-being of students of all ages. “Health inequity plays a […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to “strike back” against the European Union if it put tariffs on U.S. goods after it won the right to do so earlier this week in retaliation against subsidies for planemaker Boeing. “If they strike back, then we’ll strike back harder than they’ll strike. They don’t […]
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Amazon shared with us that more Prime Day 2020 deals would start on October 6th, and that’s today. Starting now, you can save on more TVs and other smart home products, if you’re in the market for those. Keep in mind, though, that you’ll need to be signed in with a Prime account to be […]
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