Research conducted for Channel 4's Dispatches suggested that British punters lost more than £1bn last year on the fixed-odds betting terminals (Fobt machines), which allow bets of up to £100 every 30 seconds on touch-screen roulette games.
Reuters issued this alert: ROBERTS SAYS CALIFORNIA CASE MAY NOT REACH CENTRAL ISSUE OF RIGHT TO MARRY FOR GAYS, and other dispatches suggested that Mr. Roberts and Justice Sonia Sotomayor are asking about whether gay marriage causes any injury.
Research for Dispatches suggested that relatively prosperous areas have about five bookmakers for every 100,000 people, while poorer areas have about 12 – with some high streets in deprived neighbourhoods seeing a cluster of 10 betting shops within a mile, each containing four Fobt machines.
Dispatches suggested that donors might react differently if they knew professionals were involved earlier in the call.
Front-line dispatches suggest that, at least at times, they've lost the battle.
With that, Mr. Kiselyov introduced a report by a prominent war correspondent, formerly stationed in eastern Ukraine, who filed the latest in a series of dispatches suggesting that the valiant Syrian military could not win on its own.
Other dispatches suggest Beijing was angered by the refusal by the US to send Uighur prisoners from Guantanamo back to China, with their ambassador to Kyrgyzstan calling the move "a slap in the face".
The results of the assessment are presented to the control room operator, who decides to accept the suggested dispatch or to repeat the assessment considering additional user-specific constraints.
NB Hold Everything Dear, by John Berger (Verso, pounds 7.99) John Berger calls his essays "dispatches", which suggests reportage, and I suppose technically they are reportage, often from the front line of the world's misery.
But like every crisis in the Middle East, the Yemen conflict, which has followed almost seamlessly from the civil war that brought Nasser's Egyptian army into conflict with the Yemeni royal family - which was supported by the Saudis - is a little more nuanced than news dispatches might suggest.
