The Gordon Moody Association is a charity based outside birmingham, which offers residents a 12 week programme. 0ur Midlands Correspondent sima kotecha is the firstjournalist to be allowed inside. Ive had people say to me, like, why dont you just stop it . You try and be in a gamblers mind just for a day and then youll know what its like. It aint as easy as that. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary row of houses. Inside are some of the countrys most severe gamblers, desperate for help and a cure. It is notjust about gambling, it is about how it has infected your whole life. Based in the west midlands, it provides more than just advice and therapy for men, its britains only Residential Centre for gambling addicts and weve been given exclusive access. We believe that gambling is almost a symptom of whats going on underneath. Sort of a maladaptive coping response, if you like. So what we do is we find out where that came from and we help people to find new coping strategies that e
An improvement for me. I think thats too fast, especially when there are people on the roadside, men working on the road, it is too fast, that is dangerous. The speed limit should be 50, it is that for a reason. Even that is pretty fast if you go past. If a car passes you at 50 you can feel the speed of the wind from the car, i think it is too fast. Highways england says it is carrying out further tests to ensure it can be done safely, but the changes could be brought in by the end of the year. Sophie long, bbc news. Lets find out how the weather is looking. Storm brian has brought gusts of wind to coastal areas and there have been a few really exposed spot with stronger dust. As forecast, it hasnt been particularly unusually windy. We get loads of days like this in autumn. The brisk winds continue. A few gusts up to 60, perhaps over the hills and coast. A mild night and start to sunday. The afternoon, an often enough sunshine and showers but with increasingly large gaps between the sh
World which looks at the songbird trade in indonesia threatening dozens trade in indonesia threatening d oze ns of trade in indonesia threatening dozens of protected species with extinction. The lush tropical forests of java. As civilisation encroaches, only pockets remain, and theyre falling silent. Songbirds are disappearing from the wild. And then its caught. Yeah. Trapped from the forest, sold as singing pets and status symbols. Im victoria gill, and im injakarta to investigate the insatiable demand for songbirds thats now driving an extinction crisis. People will always want to buy songbirds. We cannot stop, we cannot stop. That is javanese culture. We really are firefighting. Were saving the last of the last. This bird may be the only one of its kind left on the planet. This bird in here could be the last of this kind of bird . Yep. Java, the largest and most crowded island in indonesia, home to more than 140 million people. Cities, towns and villages seem to squeeze into every a
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