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News at 7 I'm one wrong decision one of the U.K.'s worst sex offenders is to be released from prison on license as a London taxi driver John Worboys drugged and then raped or assaulted dozens of female passengers between 20022008 he was convicted of 19 offenses in 2009 it's believed he served 10 years including a period on remand as Danny sure reports the move to release him has caused some surprise it's not early in the strictest sense because he has beyond his minimum term but certainly when you consider the gravity of the offenses and the scale of the offending I certainly think it has raise some concern and some surprise but the decision was made by the independent parole board he will be subject to stringent license conditions he mustn't approach any of his victims he has to report every week to probation staff and if he bridges the terms of his license then he can be returned to prison increasing numbers of people taken to hospitals in England by ambulance or facing delays when they arrive the latest figures show that one in 8 arrival so far this winter had to wait more than half an hour to be handed over to n.h.s. Staff at double the target of 15 minutes Professor John Appleby is from the health charity the Nuffield Trust of the last few winters the n.h.s. Has been going in into autumn into winter running much hotter more beds occupied staff are under more pressure and so on clearly hospitals need to work out some had dreamed a man's been arrested after a fatal stabbing in a betting shop in Birmingham police were called to a branch of Paddy Power where they found a man with severe head injuries he was pronounced dead at the scene the Prime Minister's joint homeless charities in criticizing a Conservative council leader who says Windsor should be cleared of rough sleepers in time for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Simon Dudley says some people. Have made a life choice to prey on tourists and residents to reason may has criticized his stance I think it is important that we counsel work hard to ensure that they are providing accommodation for those people who are homeless a weather issues of people who are aggressively begging on the streets then it's important councils work with the police to deal with that aggressively the mustard maker coalmines has confirmed it'll leave its base in Origin 2019 where it's been making the condiment for 160 years the g.m.b. 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The Bee Gees' and Night Fever on Georgie tonight with me Johnny I answered in for Georgie tonight and tomorrow the numbers to get in touch with the program 34531858 you can of course text as a one triple 3 Start your message with the word Georgie with a y on the end or fun is on all various bits of social media b.b.c. Georgia tonight and Johnny I answered on there as well j.-o. H.-n. And why I am. Still standing a little bit gruff today very gruff but that's Or I like my new essence of masculinity that I'm bringing through the radio right now don't stand too close to seriously the my way you are in the country I genuinely think I could be infectious so wear one of those funny little masks that you often see people wearing in Southeast Asia the world of good on the show today I would like to hear about your lottery wins plays I am so excited to hear from the glass a taxi driver who's won 25000000. On the lottery there are loads of people that have won the lottery obviously we like your tales of it tonight where the big or small but what do you spend the money on the more unusual boring and outrageous the better and if you got any pictures of where that money went as well love to see it . Start that text with the word leads. Sorry. Well this week at Jodi tonight on Twitter or. On your text and triple for a start that text with. Yes you heard me. Next on the show. A lot of money. Was. Would like. To a question the a a question . The Pointer Sisters and I'm so excited if that's your thing though he's got a life of Diana Ross on the show in the next half an hour's time the monkey's Lionel Richie on the way as well and later on this evening really really looking forward to bringing you this week's introducing artists which is the absolutely fantastic and the genuinely lovely guys as well who came to see is for their life session earlier highwire from Lancashire a couple of belting choose really good exceptionally talented musicians so high while later on the program after 9 o'clock today on Georgie tonight with me Johnny I am so we are asking you in the meantime your lottery winnings and those coming through already said Keep them coming through we'll go through a few in the next 1520 minutes time who would like to hear about if you won the lottery what you spent the money on could be the tiniest amount could be a couple could on a scratch card could be maybe a multi multi 1000000 pound win such as this next person we're about to hear from a taxi driver from Gloucestershire has packed in work amazingly so and is planning to buy a big house in a Ferrari after winning more than 24000000 quid 50 year old father of 5 from Gloucester skipped 24000000 500283 pounds in the lottery draw last Wednesday Steve neighbor has been to meet him and his family. He knew the old East to be a multi 1000000 am I resell Levy's family a wrong Cloud 9 even more so than it 1st when he thought he'd won a quarter of a 1000000 pounds when I run my brother out Marco I mean. You have a 150 value on 2025 1000000 because no word when the 1st 100 or so it rolls over to them that they were all resorts I don't know what the number of that for this year with you was the roses amazes the. I always thought it was a fix. They don't win really because it's too much money to people I thought I was a normal. Through and I'm not weak it was that we sadly partner died 4 years ago the money may come of course but he's a father of 5 and a grandfather of 9 he says true to his Italian reach his family will come 1st. They know what they want when Want to go Bali once a footballer I'm sure I can contribute some money to happen so we've got far in life he's going to help people. John mean he's going to have it's not just for him . He's got a good life. Going to enjoy it and he would help I know he will because he's a lovely bloke not just a not it's my brother you ask everyone on the road. But then we'll see if you can use a holiday in Las Vegas and he'll trade he's count for a Ferrari which is friends of his old taxi ranking seems pretty happy about it somebody will read using it could have gone to a better driver to be honest work in all areas concerned you know to to cover his bills you don't just just a dream come true for 30 deserves or has been really hard work in mine a very honest one and then I went to visit wrong the man who sold the golden tickets and it seems he's got the my cheek touch when it comes to the last time I saw him on the ticket in 200 when I laid the one around the corner and this is a 2nd 124500000 very happy that 6 I might use Italian mother Maria joined in the celebrations today to be honest I still think they're trying to make sense of it old but he told me he'll never forget those numbers he's played every week that it's now a 24 and a half 1000000 times 364-857-5050 extension 50. A volley Can you give me 5 a good. Practice to the last a generous I'm originally from Gloucester I guess he can afford to. 24000000 pounds and a bit the name as we had them ultimately I didn't actually have the 6 numbers but nobody had the 6 numbers so it went to the next person I have 5 in a bonus ball so it lies here for me tonight what have you spent your lottery win on however big or small extravagant on Monday in just like you know the classic stuff in that little piece that could happen to a nicer guy you never get anybody here at all wants that really that's what I want to hear oh yeah the numpty that wins that nobody is placed for allowed to Christine it was called 834-530-8581 extension 8 local lottery for the Essex and hot air ambulance in 2007 when 250 quid and spent on a new gas oven. One. Of those places it went triple for a start the checks were Georgia. Fantastic Force officer walk away Renee this is Johnny in for tonight musical away from Diana Ross and Robbie Williams latest traffic and travel coming your way in 10 or so minutes time but we are talking about winning the lottery on the program tonight we'd like to hear your tales of money you've won and what you spend it on a small and is insignificant Is it might be or is huge and life changing as it is get in touch with us the problem this a massive when full can be a massive problem can't we just heard a moment ago about a result he's recently pocketed 24 and a half 1000000 quid was a house in a sports car but there. Well will it make you happy apparently it can't buy you happiness can buy you lots of holiday stuff I mean to you to my next guest now Simone Bienne s. And who is the founder of Wise Monkey financial coaching and also the co-author of she could omics Simone helps people deal with their relationship with money as opposed to how just to invest it and she's live on the show now hello Simone how you Hi I'm good thanks how are you yeah good thank you financial coaching not financial advisor again difference is that well I used to be and independent financial adviser so I came from that background but what I'm doing now is not giving advice so it's not certainly not product advice so it's more about helping people manage money manage their relationship with money work through the obstacles that get in the way of that but also it might be helping people with inherited wealth look at what they really want from from their situation so it's it's what it is and is investment advice what it is is everything else the kind of softer side of personal finance and our relationship to it and if you work with people like Imo who we heard a moment ago who has all of a sudden found himself 25000000 pounds richer I haven't worked with lottery winners actually but what I have done is work with clients who have inherited wealth which is a similar kind of thing it may be slightly different perhaps because it could be because of a death of a family member which could have all of the other kind of emotional context to it but. The principles are the same I think it's very it's very easy for us to think how exciting without being to win a lot of money how amazing you can just do everything and anything you ever want to do but it's much much more complicated and I think this is an area that isn't talked about so much and isn't written about so much the like the complications inherited wealth for instance or the complications of lottery. And I think when I get people would just be like What do you when you know about your rich now. You don't know probably not vs the point you also can't. We know that money doesn't buy happiness only up to a certain level doesn't buy happiness but where do you get your let's say you're feeling if you've quit your job you've bought this house you've gone into an area where you don't know anyone and nobody. You don't have local friends you. People are in a different kind of social class that you're not used to and if you lost your people and you and your people no longer feel that you're part of that crowd who do you complain to you know no one would want to hear that complaint if I've got too much money or in my life and it's really interesting cause you talk to everybody wants no matter where they are a sense of belonging and when you win x. Amount millions of pounds like you say you know you don't belong in your little 2 up 2 down terrace anymore because you may think you've got good feelings or pounds in the bank there's nothing time you move or not going to all these rich parties and flying private jets and the people who look at you think you want that money wasn't yours you come into it yeah exactly and you haven't worked for it and then you can feel a sense of guilt around this money not being mine and also perhaps you have quit your job but actually that gave you a sense of fulfillment Yes I would say the. That it's good to kind of explore what's really truly important here before you start thinking about spending any of it and what about the issues around friends and family who just expect you to give the money the ones that come out of the woodwork heard from in years or even the nearest and dearest that just think well you've got x. Amount a 1000000 Chuckles a couple of underground when I stop Well that's and you've got to manage that situation says a whole load of stuff that you've got to deal with the money going to manage your own emotions around you might be somebody that wants to just pay off everybody's mortgage and then before you know it you run out of money and we know that lots of lottery winners do. Run out of money because they they they spend it all and then realize that actually it wasn't that big a sum of money in the 1st place like. 20 What was it 2X4W2X2W is a really large sum of money that would last a long time if if dealt with wisely but something like 1000000 or 2000000 you may think well hey you know let's let's quit my job let's buy a new house buy a new car let's pay off their mortgage but before you know that money or we're run out and it really isn't that much money yeah so I would I would kind of think about well I would stop and kind of think about what you what's really important to you and also how big is this money what can it do for you more can't it be for you yeah a lot of people listening will probably be thinking about maybe these Nicholson the famous woman from West Yorkshire that won the pole and said she was going to spend spend spend famously and spent the entire amount which was about equipment about 3000000 pounds in 3 years and it was left destitute What what do you think are the most common mistakes or issues that people face who come into big large sums of money when I think it's less than your emotions run away with you I think that's a big job to be had around managing your emotions around a time like this money means or different things to different people and it could be a sense of power and control and and I think it's important for us too for us to understand our own relationship to money and kind of take that a little bit before you start spending so I think the the mistake people make is they just go out and think this is a lot of money I can do any anything I want to do and suddenly they feel that they're going to get all the all the happiness and feelings of success that they've always wanted but then they realize it doesn't come in that form. This in some ways been really nice to talk to you thank you for the sage advice pleasure because I am the kind of person that would just go. Everything and that's obviously not the case and. I think it's like. That same. On the show founder of the financial coaching She can all mix. Yes we call. It one triple 3 with the word. Next. Coming to. You as. As. A. Pound of it went on my prepaid electric meter and the rest of the fish and chips. Place. And. On a spent in paying for parking at the Kent Hospital they go anywhere. 300 . Of them. In the. We've. Just. A. This is Johnny in Georgia 34531858 show it take one trip to 3 star that text with the word Georgie with a y on. Facebook and Twitter you can follow me on Twitter should be that way inclined if you got nothing better to do it Johnny I answered all on Twitter I spent my entire scratch card when a 25 pound Johnny and I am brew in Southern Comfort and up Shiela where you go is the change in the recipe a people to stop talking in that kind of stuff to get in there now before it goes for good in its current form. To love and I'm on the drinks are available but none of them are like I am brew are they really they're not in any way what if you were what have you spent your last 3 winnings on place and always did you enjoy let's be nosey one triple 3 star that text with the word Georgie now January is traditionally the time to start fresh time to give something up lose weight saying no to temptation Maybe though you better to say yes sometimes saying no to someone else and saying yes to yourself instead maybe you'd be a bit happier confused yes we are well Judy Judy may Murphy is a success coach and speaker and she thinks that we all need to make the most of 2018 by saying yes more a how you have a life fabulous thanks high self. I'm Ok I'm soldiering on you know so best we can but I'm slow but that's all right I'm not complaining I'm not I'm a lawyer I'm here and I'm optimistic about 28 we often get into the mindset that we need we need to start the year by saying no to stuff ourselves off be more pious be better but you've got the opposite point of view. We have sent them all all about what works what really makes you have the best life you can possibly have and when you deny yourself something you know if you haven't noticed that immediately there's a part of yourself that just rebels that says something like Well you know I'm not going to deny myself that you just feel a little bit angry about it or you tell yourself right I have to go to the gym and it's like when you're your mum and dad used to be it's hiding your dream when you're little or you had to do without something when you saw other people getting it when you were when you were smaller we still have that inside us so basically saying no and denying ourselves doesn't work so instead of we say well where is I want to go to and how can I say yes to that and that's what's going to get us there I believe you've already begun the year by saying yes to a trip to Singapore is that where you are now I mean Singapore right now it's on 3 30 in the morning are blessed you know. Friends or if you just come in from a night out. I know I actually Georgie knows this about me that I meet up at 6 in the morning so I've just got a little bit earlier. Tonight So if you've ever read the book the yes man by Danny Wallace and it was a film made by star and you carry it he basically made a probably you made a pact with himself that he would just say yes to pretty much everything the anybody asked of it it was you know not hard we're going to be a little bit more discerning we're going to be dissolute bit more careful with ourselves because if you just say yes to everything you can end up saying yes to stuff that doesn't serve you yeah so if you end up saying yes to you know doing a ton of stuff for other people and really what you need is you need your energy for you then that's not really going to make your life that much better so work out you know if you're saying yes to something is that going to bring you to a better place and also a lot of the stuff that he said yes to was just kind of crazy adventurous stuff was it was yes to stuff like that was even hurting him sometimes or he wasn't enjoying but if we design it and we say you know oh where is it I want to be and how can I do that so well I'm saying yes to going to the gym because that's the 1st way that you think of getting fit instead if you say well you know what this people down the road who want to learn the owner of Lady I'm going to do that with them or you know what I just love dancing my kitchen like a lunatic I was dancing like a lunatic to Robbie Williams Right started chatting and that counts you know so so design it so you saw what feels good to me what can I do consistently rather than something that saying yes to something that feels bad and then you stop doing it so by extension then under your kind of philosophy How does saying no to someone means saying yes to yourself so let's imagine that there's someone who is always asking you to babysit at the last minute or always asking you to volunteer for something and you just feel resentful towards And you know that this isn't really making your law. Better and you know that it's not making your relationship with them any better either then saying no to them drawing a boundary and saying yes instead to you having control over your free time you making the decisions about what you really want to do that's when saying no to someone else even if you're like around someone who's being abusive saying no more to them and just getting them out of your life is saying a big yes to you living the way that you want to live do you think that it's a British thing to not open yourself to not say yes bored or is that just an inherent behavior in everybody. And it is a little bit British I must admit that you know I work all around the world and there are some cultures that are just gung ho for everything like it in America particularly places like New York or Chicago and you know what is the downside to that as well because they tend not to be cautious enough whereas with them British and Irish people I'm I'm Irish we tend to be a little bit overly cautious so really it's about saying Ok I'm going to be careful but I'm not going to be risk averse I'm going to open myself up enough to take a chance and 2018 and just see where it takes you have you ever said yes and regret it. Oh absolutely but you know what I'd rather say yes to things and regret it like this this last year I was actually up in Yorkshire I thought you know I learned how to buy clothes by 15 minutes into my very 1st class the very 1st time and a lot of like I came off broke my arm No No I learned how to write a letter but yes I did but you know what at least I will never regret my life I won't regret living a smaller life I won't have regrets that say you know I didn't take it as big as possible that to me is the ultimate regret and that's the one I'd love to avoid And even if that means the old broken arms and the. Bottom whatever it is I'll take that because my life is extraordinary because I say yes because I design my life on a daily basis yeah and you get a good tale about how you broke your arm I was cycling as well it's a bit cool if it's very cold out maybe I just fell downstairs. And just say it was a Harley as well and that's it that's a great story and I love that live life out loud I love that kind of the I love the ethos I think that's the way forward Listen have a great 2018 I hope Singapore brings you everything that you hope it does and a little bit more and I'm sure we'll catch it we get to share some point absolutely Johnny have a great one you. Say yes to 28. Open The Russian Chain Reaction to Georgia. Will be joining for 2 minutes to 8 I will keep saying this all night long I'm so excited to bring in your life session from our b.b.c. Introducing act all this week we're playing you stuff from high wire from Lancashire the lights came in to see is today we prerecorded that live session earlier and it was just great and really genuinely lovely people too David Chris and Alex stick around here just after 9 o'clock we're bring it I absolutely terrific really really is now Christmas decorations I look at mine today thinking they come down and well perhaps you're waiting for the weekend in the 6th of January that's when they're meant to come down in theory but is that right he was in your cabin telling us I take him down in the fall of the 12th night you know after Christmas I was going to take him down before Michael to sit down don't do that it's unlucky I'm going to leave him a little is a great big Christmas tree that I would really do it taking down by gun that it's going to stay there migrations are down already they came. In the day after Boxing Day because I hate to lie. Wake up on New Year's Day with accusations that was last day so they need to calm down and they've gone I'm quite traditional 12 days before 12 days off not my friend I normally am 12 days before days after going to New York I didn't and I popped the post on Facebook saying deco project so I had a bit of a combination for him I had already made up my mind you came down yesterday to question decks of decks down while the so is one who froma speak to Allan Cleaver an expert in folklore knew also all of Christmas in old Cumbria afternoon tea Alan how you write good evening to you no reason I should say you have. Aids so when is the right time then to the whole series at the debate about whether you can form the faithful the sick the general there's no debate at all it's a 12th night 6 of January I don't I mean I'm sure the listeners are equally horrified to hear that the rep able to take in their decorations down the day after Boxing I know. This is very kind. I mean I mean rather I mean traditions change all the time of course and this all stems really from the sort of before the interest real revolution and people had Christmas Day off and they had 12 days after that off lots of feasting lots of drinking and then back to work the Monday after which was plowed Monday is planned on Monday and so they had 12 days of celebration but I mean over the last sort of Tunisia's it's all turned around and I think one of the shoppers in New York was saying you know we now sort of almost celebrate Christmas of 12 days before Christmas and then we have Christmas Day and that's it everyone's saying Oh did you have a nice Christmas and I'm saying what we still owe you. Did the 12 days because the 12 apostles No I don't think so no. No I think it was it was simply the sort of you know the religious holiday and the sort of 12 days following on from could. Smith's day. But you're right I mean a lot of this is based Well in the in the Christian calendar but you know like most traditions we sort of swapped and changed and moved from other religions as well. Plowman Do you still sort of mounting I think in a number of churches should be a blessing of the plateau and has a few sort of events like that that go on but that sort of laying out as a lot of Christmas traditions are and you know I sort of fear for the future of Christmas really because if people are sort of same of Christmas is over about the 27th or December you know this is it doesn't bode well really I just find it sad day because I'm just reminded of all the great time in the excitement and the build up and then he's always done and he's kind of policing through twinkly reminded that we go way into the Euphrates Can you believe that I went to my local soup the still the 7 I've got a store eggs on sale I can believe. It is that I mean you know I sort of keep an eye on the traditions and then I think you know things like I was in there you know carol singers knocking on your door they don't exist anymore certainly not in this area White Haven in Cumbria you know the sort of formal carol singing by groups going around villages and that but the old tradition of you know when I was when I was a lad 50 years ago. You know knocking on doors and collecting a few pennies by counseling and that that seems to have all gone you know as a nation I mean us the problem I think really people are more interested in how much money they spend in the shops and online on in. Their facility to ladies bringing in a whole new Ralph to traditions and you know I still send Christmas cards but you know my nieces and nephews on the scene I will still just and Facebook messages and tweets and an e-mail and any caudal whatever but I still get the own fountain pen now you know. Good on you know many of us left if somebody sent me a crisp. Tweet them out the family. Christmas toy definiteness. Lacks any sort of personal will to some there is a nose. So you know things are changing but that's the way the world involuntary and you know traditions devastate the site and they do change all the time and you know you sort of think back to your childhood Christmases and. Think of hell things were. Lovely as they were you know they change probably about every 5 or 10 years you can notice new traditions coming in. Particularly those imported from America this thing called Elf on the shelf and then if you come across that that seems to be taking hold now in Britain as a tradition. So based on a kid's book about an Elf on the shelf we sort of watches out and make sure that you've been a good boy all good. And you'll see now in shops in the run up to Christmas health on the shelf sale and you know it's probably new to a few of your listeners but a lot of your listeners will know but I think I can confidently predict in another couple of years everybody will go yourself on the shelf you know like we do with Rudolph or anything else. So you know I have to work hard to keep tabs on all the changes in tradition Yeah you keep the traditional traditional Christmas spirit alive out of what you're taking and taking us out on. It takes me about 12 days to take all my decorations down so I will certainly start on Saturday but I've also got the colony United much to go. And I don't know about you but you know normally by about June I still find the last decoration behind the door forgotten about so it can take quite a while for me but I think a lot of people are absolutely certain they must come down on 12th Night on January the 6 Otherwise it's bad luck for the rest of the Year thanks ever so much free time to get the light out. Please in that. Christmas in. Prison. This is. We've. We've. C.b.c. News that a Time Warner oldest and a prolific sex offender known as the London black cab rapist is to be released from prison on license later this month as a taxi driver John Wall boys drugged and raped or assaulted dozens of female passengers between 20022008 he served around 10 years in prison after being convicted of 19 offenses sorry it was straight to a solicitor who represented some of his victims says she's spoken to one of them and she's distressed by the news it feels like another in the fairway having spent years back I think it takes any parent or failing that the guy that they go has not had a cat for she discovers this new well cooking cleaning.