Instead he founded a literary magazine, which he financed by opening the city's first coin-operated laundry.

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Holyrood's health committee has also agreed to introduce new restrictions banning coin-operated machines.

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To get into the store, customers step through a coin-operated photo booth and past the arcade games in the window.

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Sam Kirby, from Consol Sun centre, which represents the UK's biggest coin-operated sunbed salons, said that the company told customers how to tan responsibly.

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The cushy new play areas are a far cry from the simple, coin-operated rides and puzzle tables parked in distant wings of older malls.

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It urged supermarkets to introduce measures such as coin-operated trolleys, magnetic devices to prevent them leaving the store's grounds, or agreeing a deal to pay the costs of recovering trolleys.

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Its trade association calculates that more than 90% of Europe's 3.2m machines are coin-operated, and that it will take at least an hour to adapt each for the new coins.

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