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  • Damien Lillard hits 42 points as Portland Trail Blazers beat Memphis Grizzlies

    Damien Lillard hits 42 points as Portland Trail Blazers beat Memphis Grizzlies

    Damian Lillard scored 42 points for the second game in a row as the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Memphis Grizzlies 122-112.

    Lillard, who also had 10 assists and eight rebounds, now has 49 40-point career games.

    He is tied with Shaquille O’Neal in 19th place on the list of players with the most 40-point games in NBA history. 

    Elsewhere, the Boston Celtics beat the Brooklyn Nets who remain without the injured Kevin Durant.

    Jayson Tatum scored 31 points and Jaylen Brown added 26 as the Celtics overwhelmed their Eastern Conference rivals 139-96 – scoring 46 points in the first quarter alone – to remain top of the table.

    Kyrie Irving had 20 points, four rebounds, and four assists for the Nets, who have now lost their past 10 games against Boston.

    The Philadelphia 76ers earned swift revenge for Monday’s surprising defeat by the Orlando Magic, beating the Florida side 105-94 in Wednesday’s rematch.

    The Sixers had gone into Monday’s game on the back of seven straight wins but let a 21-point advantage slip as they lost 119-109.

    But Joel Embiid scored 28 points while James Harden added 26, including six three-pointers, and also had nine rebounds and 10 assists.

    The Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Golden State Warriors 119-114 in overtime while there were also wins for Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings, Utah Jazz, and Atlanta Hawks but the Detroit Pistons home game against the Washington Wizards was postponed with the Pistons stuck in Dallas because of an ice storm.

  • King Charles will not appear on the new Australia $5 note

    King Charles will not appear on the new Australia $5 note

    King Charles III will not feature on Australia’s new five dollar note, the country’s central bank has announced.

    The new design will pay tribute to “the culture and history” of Indigenous Australians, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) says.

    A portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II appears on the current design of the five-dollar note.

    The Queen’s death last year reignited debates about Australia’s future as a constitutional monarchy.

    “This decision by the Reserve Bank Board follows consultation with the Australian government, which supports this change,” the bank said in a statement.

    “The Bank will consult with First Australians in designing the $5 banknote. The new banknote will take a number of years to be designed and printed. In the meantime, the current $5 banknote will continue to be issued. It will be able to be used even after the new banknote is issued,” it added.

    The A$5 banknote is the only Australian banknote to carry the image of a British monarch. The late Queen appears on the country’s coins as well, although Australia is transitioning to using an effigy of King Charles III.

    The RBA told the BBC it has not yet set a date for when it will reveal the new five-dollar note design.

    The decision was welcomed by Aboriginal politicians and community leaders.

    “This is a massive win for the grassroots, First Nations people who have been fighting to decolonize this country,” said Lidia Thorpe, a Greens senator and DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara woman.

    First Nations people lived in Australia for at least 65,000 years before British colonization, according to recent estimates.

    The King became the British monarch after his mother’s death in September.

    As the British monarch, he is also the head of state of Australia, New Zealand, and 12 other Commonwealth realms outside the United Kingdom. The role is largely ceremonial.

    The British monarch’s portrait has appeared on at least one design in every series of Australian banknotes.

    However, in September Australia said the image of the new monarch would not automatically replace the Queen on its five-dollar notes, and that she might be replaced by Australian figures.

  • Llysfaen man gambled away £500,000 by his late 20s

    Llysfaen man gambled away £500,000 by his late 20s

    A man who lost £500,000 betting has described how his gambling addiction started with gaming as a teenager.

    Jordan Lea, from Llysfaen, Conwy county, started placing bets at about 14, and by his late 20s, was in huge debt. 

    He has set up a gambling help charity that is seeing “a huge amount” of young people getting hooked. 

    Early education on problem gambling is urgently needed, Public Health Wales (PHW) said.

    Mr Lea said there was “a very prominent link” between gaming and gambling, adding: “I actually became addicted to gambling through gaming when I was 14 or 15 years old.

    “By the time I was 18, I was already primed for quite a severe gambling addiction, which led me down a [path to the] criminal justice system.”

    By his late 20s, his life had collapsed into debt and compulsive betting, he told BBC Radio Wales.

    But his life changed when a casino croupier confronted him about his problem.

    “I just broke down in tears,” he said. 

    “That was the catalyst that really pushed me to get help.”

    He later founded Deal Me Out, an awareness and education charity on gambling and gaming-related harms in Wales.

    “People call it the hidden addiction,” he said. 

    “With online gambling it’s on your phone, you have a casino in your pocket. You can do that on the toilet without being seen by anyone.”

    He believes a “severe lack of education” about the dangers of gambling meant his problems went unacknowledged for years.

    As a support worker, his “primary concern” is now for young people getting hooked online “through skin betting with crypto websites”.

    He said “frontline education” is needed for young people and their parents.

    PHW said the links between gambling and gaming need to be acknowledged.

    It called for urgent action to tighten “regulation of gambling industry advertising and practices”.

    The organisation also wants early education, more addiction support, and help from frontline health workers to identify problem gamblers and get them the help they need. 

    PHW’s Annie Ashman said harmful gambling was having “devastating effects” on health and wellbeing.

    “A system-wide approach is needed to take action on every level of the causes and resulting harms that gambling can have,” she said. 

    “This includes knocking down the barrier of shame and stigma, early education in schools, empowering GPs and other frontline services to identify and refer on to specialist services.”

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