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Devizes scrap dealer found guilty of racial harassment

Jones of J Jones Motor Spares, Caen Hill, Devizes, appeared before the court on Friday in connection with an incident at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, when a row took place over a parking space. Jones and his wife Victoria won A 2.3 million on the National Lottery in 2004 after Mrs Jones then aged 29 bought a Lucky Dip ticket at the petrol station in London Road, Devizes.

Has lottery advertising gone too far; not far enough?

RALEIGH N.C. Education Lottery officials last week showed legislators a video of school kids in New York surprising convenience store customers by singing a song of thanks in the store. “Every time you play a New York Lottery game, a portion of your sale goes to eight New York State school children, just like that,” the narrator says in the ad for that state’s lottery.

Has lottery advertising gone too far; not far enough?

RALEIGH N.C. Education Lottery officials last week showed legislators a video of school kids in New York surprising convenience store customers by singing a song of thanks in the store. “Every time you play a New York Lottery game, a portion of your sale goes to eight New York State school children, just like that,” the narrator says in the ad for that state’s lottery.

Chris Fitzsimon: No integrity in getting more poor people to play lottery

The folks running the state lottery want everybody to know that they can sell more tickets and rake in millions of more dollars from the poorest areas of the state if they can spend more money trying to convince people to play and if they are allowed to sell tickets online and on smart phones. Lottery officials made the presentation at a legislative oversight committee meeting where they were asked to talk about ways to raise more revenue for the state – and they have a lot of them.

Chris Fitzsimon: No integrity in getting more poor people to play lottery

The folks running the state lottery want everybody to know that they can sell more tickets and rake in millions of more dollars from the poorest areas of the state if they can spend more money trying to convince people to play and if they are allowed to sell tickets online and on smart phones. Lottery officials made the presentation at a legislative oversight committee meeting where they were asked to talk about ways to raise more revenue for the state – and they have a lot of them.