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Daily horoscope for Saturday January 25 — here’s what the stars have in store for you today

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ARIES March 21 to April 20 The most rewarding and thrilling part of your weekend could be a get-together you think is routine. Because it is here that a work and travel plan takes shape that is perfect for you. Romance-wise, several people are interested, but you could click with a sexy, sincere “R” name the second time you meet. TAURUS April 21 to May 21 The Mars effect makes you strong and determined when you talk about family and finances. Even difficult people will listen. But total surprise is your reaction when a friend reveals who wants a serious love relationship with you. At first you wonder if there is a hidden motive, but soon you know it is mutual love. GEMINI May 22 to June 21 Pluto is your influencer planet and it fills your day with totally unexpected opportunities to turn something you think of as just a hobby into a way to generate some extra money. If single, a meeting with someone you once worked with, suddenly feels a lot like a true romance. A relat...
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Daily horoscope for Friday January 24 — here’s what the stars have in store for you today

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ARIES March 21 to April 20 A new moon of fresh friendship and community ties lights up your chart. You are ready to meet inspiring new people and to reconnect with a team project you unexpectedly miss. Love moves into a deep, meaningful phase, so weigh up every word you say. True feelings will break through any barrier. TAURUS April 21 to May 21 Instead of sticking to a goal that has started to feel more like a chore than a challenge, this is your moment to break free and find your genuine calling. Even in the smallest ways, as soon as you assert your own ideas, life can change. In love terms, a last-minute invitation has amazing heart-shaped potential. GEMINI May 22 to June 21 The future you choose might not be what everyone wants for you but, deep down, you know why it is right. A moon of inner knowledge builds confidence and you can shake off criticism. Saturn adds caution to a big cash change, so be sure to build in “consideration” time. If love is your goal, check ...
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Spice: a lethal epidemic fuelled by austerity | John Harris

The prevalence of this debilitating drug shows that society has reached a precipitous moment of decay

At first I thought he might be dead. The man was no older than 40, and dressed in a huge beige parka: he had stumbled on to an almost empty town square, wobbled on his feet and then collapsed. For a while, he lay completely motionless, his arms outstretched and his knees folded into his chest. People walked by, showing barely a flicker of interest. He then swayed to his feet, before crashing back down again. This time he hit his head on the concrete, and the hideous crack it made was enough to bring people to his aid, before he seemed to assure them that he would be all right, and uncertainly shuffled away again.

I was in the Yorkshire town of Doncaster – though it could have been any number of places where the street drug known as spice has entered the lives of people living on society’s edges, sowing anxiety and fear. Over the summer, stories of the drug and its users seemed to reach a critical point – in Cardiff, Leeds, Sheffield, Wrexham, Hull, Lincoln and Mansfield. At the end of August, a group of Conservative police and crime commissioners said that spice represented the “most severe public health issue we have faced in decades”, and demanded that, three years after it was made illegal, it be moved from class B to class A status, the same as heroin and cocaine. Three weeks ago, the Daily Mirror splashed that Britain “is in the grip of a spice epidemic”.

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from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/29/spice-lethal-epidemic-austerity-drug
via TV In Wigan

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