Tag: £750000

03 APR

Megan Markle’s father once won $750,000 in the lottery — and paid tuition at her private school with part of his winnings

Eddie Mulholland/AP Meghan Markle is preparing for her royal wedding to Prince Harry, which is just over a month away.  A new biography on the “Suits” actor will be released soon, entitled “Meghan: A Hollywood Princess.” Meghan’s father, Tom Markle, won $ 750,000 in the California State Lottery in 1990, according to an an excerpt from […]

28 FEB

Mosul exodus: Thousands flee, over 750,000 Iraqi civilians trapped in anti-ISIS battle zone

As a US-backed offensive pushes into the western neighborhoods of Mosul, more than 2,000 people left the Iraqi city over the weekend. But with hundreds of thousands of civilians caught in the fighting, camps near the city cannot house all the displaced. In what is believed to be the biggest exodus since local forces stepped […]

12 FEB

Prescriptions for antidepressants cost NHS more than £750,000 per day

Between October 2015 and September 2016, the number of prescriptions rose seven per cent from 59.5 million to nearly 63.6 million, according to NHS Digital. The four million rise equates to an annual cost of £285million. Over 20 years antidepressant prescriptions have risen more than fourfold.  The numbers do not necessarily mean the number of […]