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May as well start looking at our White Christmas betting opportunities for 2012. Once again we are wrapping up against the winter chills and while the financial elite are hoping for a big freeze throughout December to help with the recession, so people stay in and then go shopping in January, what are the bookies thinking about some snow falling on Christmas D…
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In the good old days, you always got a couple of those cheesy singles that could only have been written with one thing in mind – to secure that lucrative Christmas Number One spot. And there have been some right turkeys to which, it appears, not even the mosts revered are immune! Madonna and Bruce Springsteen, even Bob Dylan has traded his principles to la…
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A sports editor at the BBC has described the 10 nominees for this year’s Sports Personality of the Year as ‘one of the strongest fields I have ever seen on my time on the show’.  That’s a bit of a tall boast, given the number of ‘minority’ sports represented and the fact that there are three golfers on the list. The lack of f…
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Forget the Premier League, the Four Nations and the WGC HSBC Champions Golf and the Breeders Cup Classic this weekend, because there is some serious sports betting to pay attention to over at Earls Court in London. Yes, it is time for 2011 Miss World betting. The Miss World contest is the oldest beauty pageant running on the international stage, now in its 61st…
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I really don’t like giving unwarranted page space to TV programmes like Strictly Come Dancing but I really think it’s about time someone of authority put some kind of terms and conditions on using the term ‘celebrity’. It wasn’t the programme itself that has brought this matter to a head rather a chat show interview with the…
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Here I am, sat in my office, listening to a bit of Frank Sinatra on the afternoon radio. All very relaxing but then the DJ goes and ruins the moment (and almost makes me choke on a biscuit) by announcing that The Stone Roses are re-forming! Did I hear him correctly? It must be 15 years since Ian Brown and the boys last appeared together and there are some who would say…
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I’ve been tearing my hair out to try and find something interesting to write about at the start of this new week. OK, so the Champions League is back but I don’t want to tread on the toes on my fellow bloggers on this site who are probably more qualified to point out the week’s best bets in that quarter. I don’t think I’ve ever been i…
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It doesn’t take a banker to know that the worldwide financial crisis is a long way from being resolved. Several nations across the Eurozone, in particular, are feeling the pinch and the very future of the single currency itself may be balanced on a knife-edge if national economies continue to stall. Greece has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy…
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There are plenty of questions that need answering ahead of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing. Will Robbie Savage have better hair than Nancy Dell’Olio? Can Rory Bremner put up a passable impression of someone who knows how to put one foot in front of another? Who will get this year’s sympathy vote and make us cringe for longer than is healt…
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Some good news at last from scientists! According to a study carried out by Cambridge University, eating chocolate could cut down the risk of heart disease by a third and may also help combat strokes. That’s music to the ears of someone who can’t resist buying a bar of Dairy Milk when I’ve only gone to the supermarket to bring home a frozen pi…
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