Liverpool Life 2:14 040314

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Liverpool

Life

www.jmu-journalism.org.uk

4th - March - 2014-

Inside this week...

ON YOUR BIKE - Liverpool’s own hire-a-bike scheme to rival London’s ‘Boris Bikes’ is to be launched in April.

Flipping great! - It’s pancake day, the team at Liverpool Life give you the best ideas for pancakes this Shrove Tuesday.

Looking to the future Premiership football Scout comes to LJMU to offer talk to level 6 post graduate students

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‘THEY WOULD SAY THAT’ Councillor hits out at gambling chiefs in betting terminals row by Nick Seddon

What do Winston Churchill, The Beatles and Adolf Hitler all have in common? Find out on page 3

Liverpool Councillor Nick Small has hit back at the gambling industry, following its claims that it does not target the poorest in society. A report published last week by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling alleged that the 55 most deprived English boroughs lost £470million on fixed odds betting terminals last year, against £230million in the 115 best-off areas. The report found that Liverpool lost an average of £1,433 on the terminals in 2013 – the highest amount outside London. However, the Association

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