A gardener’s iPad showed she’d won £1.1 MILLION on a Paddy Power game. They paid her £20,265.14 and said the screen was wrong. Four and a half years later, a High Court judge ruled the screen was right. – Corrine Durber was a gardener from Gloucestershire, England. – In October 2020 she was playing a Paddy Power game called Wild Hatter on her iPad. It combines a fruit machine with a wheel-of-fortune bonus round. – She won the first stage, moved to the next level, and spun the jackpot wheel. – The screen showed the “Monster Jackpot” of £1,097,132.71. – She took a screenshot. – Paddy Power paid her £20,265.14, the amount for the smaller “Daily Jackpot,” and gave no explanation. – She complained to the company the same evening. – Paddy Power said a programming error had made the screen show the wrong prize. Its random number generator, it said, had only selected the Daily Jackpot. – Its terms and conditions said the generator’s result was final and that it wasn’t liable for system errors. – That was the whole problem. Paddy Power wrote the game, ran the software that picked the result, wrote the rules, and then decided which number counted when its own screen disagreed with its own system. – A prediction market doesn’t work that way. There’s no house writing the game or choosing the result afterward. – You trade against another person at a price someone actually agreed to, and your payout comes from the person on the other side, not from a company deciding the number on your screen was a mistake. – She sued for breach of contract. – In March 2025, Mr Justice Ritchie granted summary judgment in her favor, so there was no full trial. – His 62-page ruling found that human error in mapping the game’s software caused the on-screen result to differ from the generator’s. It affected 14 plays over 48 days. – The judge said customers expect the house to pay if they bet on number 13 and the ball lands on 13. – He found the terms unfair and unenforceable under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and not part of her contract. – He also said it was unfair to place all the risk on the consumer for the company’s own errors, negligence, and inadequate testing. – She said the judge confirmed she had “fairly and squarely won £1 MILLION.” – She said Paddy Power had “tried their very best to deny me my rightful winnings.” – She said she would never bet with them again. A gardener hit £1.1 MILLION on her iPad, was paid £20,000 instead, and spent four and a half years in court proving the screen was right.

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£46m seemed a lot for a teenage centre-back with no Premier League experience. In pursuing Luka Vuskovic, Brighton knew what they were doing. As usual. Masters of recruitment, got all that A-grade Jamestown Analytics data, all that experience, expertise and contacts to check on character.  Vuskovic had excelled on loan from Spurs at Hamburg. Scoring as well as showing his defensive class. So many attributes: distribution, aerial dominance, physique, strength in one-on-one duels, mindset, a natural leader. Still only 19, still occasional blips for the Croatian international (Bellingham ran off him to score in Dallas. 7-0 England in Rijeka), still developing but what a future in store. Vuskovic will get only better and better under the inspirational Fabian Hurzeler and in this super-positive Brighton team. Another win for Brighton, another Vuskovictory. On current form, £46m looks a bargain. Tony Bloom and Brighton have done it again. #BHAFC  #BHACRY

A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority found that "racial bias" in licensing and policing disproportionately affects black-led music events. The Race Equality in Music Event Licensing (REMEL) report said that black-led events in London were blocked at higher rates than white-led events, and that South Asian-led events also had more restrictions. Music genres such as Afrobeats, hip-hop, drill, R&B and dancehall were also routinely flagged as "high risk". The Metropolitan Police said it would carefully consider the report's findings. #Music #Licensing #London

Ron DeSantis acts first and speaks after it’s completed. That’s why no one can say that he is BS. That’s why he transformed Florida into what it is today, and I have faith that he will have the opportunity to transform the USA. And I say transform because he will have to destroy and start from zero so that we can go back to being what we once were.

I was thinking a bit about Osama Bin Laden. He stayed at home with 3 wives for 5 years. I'm beginning to suspect he called the Navy SEALs himself.

I fed lovely little Bob on the streets for 3 years in Thailand. Never in my wildest dreams did I think he would end up on a private jet 🤷‍♂️😂 (1/6)

A policeman came round my house this morning. Because of a post I didn’t even put up. Surely people must have better things to do??

Horrific footage of two young girls running for their lives while a Palestinist chased them down like prey. He shot the first girl in the back as she desperately tried to escape. The second froze, turned around, and begged him not to kill her. He executed her anyway, without the slightest hesitation. This is what Palestinists from Gaza did on October 7. Never forget.

Tonight on Question Time, I debated Suella Braverman on what it means to be English. I think there’s one word for her position