Luck articles
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Sheffield Steelers treble winner's luck runs out
He is returning home to have an operation and it seems he will now miss games against the likes of hockey super powers Canada and Finland in the Summer. The centreman was an absentee for a couple of Sheffield Steelers' games in March. But he put injury issues behind him to see out the rest of the victorious league season and the play offs. Whistle had been hugely proud of being called up by coach Pete Russell, alongside team mates Robert Dowd, Cole Shudra and Sam Jones. But the forward needs to...
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Millennials want to retire by 60. Good luck with that.
The average millennial is 30-something, an age by which most of us are well-versed in the ups and downs of financial life. It may come as a surprise, then, that the average millennial expects to retire before 60, a goal not many of us can afford to attain. In a February poll, YouGov asked millennials […]
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On the Wildside: The bullfinches are considered to be a symbol of good luck
The scientific name includes the Latin word ‘pyrrhula’ derived from the Greek meaning ‘flame-coloured bird’. Finches are typically thick-billed, but bullfinches especially so. These heavily-built birds are plump and quite bull-necked, and both male and female have stout grey-black bills, black wings, nape, crown, and chin, with white rump, under-tail coverts and wing-bar. These white markings, particularly the rump, are very striking when they fly. The other characteristic of the bullfinch is...