Prue leith apologises after revealing the winner of tonights Great British bake off on twitter. Good evening. Theyre called the crack cocaine of gambling fixed odds betting terminals on which you can currently gamble up to £100 every 20 seconds. They made nearly £2 billion last year for the betting industry and hundreds of millions for the treasury. But now the government is considering limiting the amount that can be gambled at any one time to as little as £2, in an attempt to deal with problem gambling. Jim connolly reports. A few months ago, nathan would have struggled to walk past a bookmakers. His gambling problem started with fixed odds machines. He has stopped betting with help from gamblers anonymous. I found myself suddenly with debts that i could not cover at all. I lost about £5,000 in 48 hours. You lose all sense of time around you. The moneyjust. The money becomes a number on a screen. Youre de sensitised to everything that is going on. Gamblers anonymous was my last r
You may have noticed this event originally called for our speaker bill fowler to be here. He is my predecessor at the Historical Society, which many of you already know. He is a distinguished repressor of history at northeastern professor of history at northeastern. We realized that such a fundamental story of the irish in boston would benefit from additional perspectives. He suggested, i will give him credit, this conversation would have more depth if we invited others, leading subject experts on the irish famine in the american response. We are pleased bill is joined tonight by catherine shannon, the guest historian of exhibition at westfield state university. We have christine can nearly, author and founding director of irelands Great Hunger Institute at quinnipiac university. Please welcome me in joining join me in welcoming, bill, christine, and kathleen. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you to all of your staff and trustees for hosting this exhibit. Louder. Louder, ok. Close
With richard for two reasons i originalist and what that means is my work is deeply dependent on talking to people but it is based of those who have the time and inclination to do the deep research that richard demonstrates in his book try to make that clear over and over with that research some of the things here not so interested in talking about so i just paid back the favor to be here. But the second part is there is a notion im doing whatever i can with this country for a long time we saw ourselves as a country with a racial problem underneath that that there are pure races that exist in this country a white race from europe for a black race from africa and in asian race from asia and the latino race i dont know where or even muslim but that is done. That the actual name comes after the attempt to take somebody something from somebody happens so define problem but really it is the things about we continue to do to this very day. But the way that racism is a figure into the idea of
With richard for two reasons i originalist and what that means is my work is deeply dependent on talking to people but it is based of those who have the time and inclination to do the deep research that richard demonstrates in his book try to make that clear over and over with that research some of the things here not so interested in talking about so i just paid back the favor to be here. But the second part is there is a notion im doing whatever i can with this country for a long time we saw ourselves as a country with a racial problem underneath that that there are pure races that exist in this country a white race from europe for a black race from africa and in asian race from asia and the latino race i dont know where or even muslim but that is done. That the actual name comes after the attempt to take somebody something from somebody happens so define problem but really it is the things about we continue to do to this very day. But the way that racism is a figure into the idea of
Starts right now thank you for joining us, im Lauren Demarco and im teisha lewis. We get right to a teenager who was shot while riding the metro this afternoon and tonight. Police are still search fogger the three men involved. The shooting happened on the redline on a train just before it pulled into the tacoma station in northwest. Lindsay watts is live with the latest. Reporter lauren and teisha, Authorities Say the teenager who was jushed here was shot in the stomach. I am told that he he was conscious and talking about before he was taken to the hospital where at last check he remains tonight. Now, the three men believed to be involved in this were caught on surveillance camera. Well show you some of the images now. Witnesses say that after the the shooting the three guys got off the train they were on. They went across the platform and they boarded the train going in the opposite direction. They were last scene and caught on camera again exiting at Silver Springs. Take tonight th