Fixed odds betting terminals – addictive or ‘harmless’ fun?
Critics say Fobties are highly addictive, and certainly I found it very compulsive when I played on a machine a couple of years ago (fortunately I wasn’t gambling with my own money).
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A hostage negotiator in direct contact with the kidnappers of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria tells Channel 4 News their safe release is “within reach”, but that their fate rests on a knife-edge.
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Funding for mental health services aimed at young people have been cut since 2010, according to a leading charity, and official estimates of the scale of the problem are out of date.
Critics say Fobties are highly addictive, and certainly I found it very compulsive when I played on a machine a couple of years ago (fortunately I wasn’t gambling with my own money).
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