Month: May 2014

  • Affleck’s had his chips

    A salutary warning to each and every Oscar-winning actor whose favourite spare time activity is card counting http://goo.gl/wIytOx As a devious gambling tycoon in the film Runner Runner, Ben Affleck knew a thing or two about how to ensure that the house always wins. In real life, however, the Oscar-winning actor appears to have turned…

  • Family of murdered Briton talks

    For an entire year Helen and Theo Gobat watched their son, Ollie, fight for survival, marvelling at the 13-year-old’s unbreakable spirit and his refusal to be defeated by cancer. After his recovery, a process punctuated by 19 stays in hospital and gruelling treatment at the Royal Marsden hospital in Sutton, Surrey, he went on to…