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According to people who knew Doyle, he shunned drugs and alcohol, was heavily into running and cycling and was well-liked by his neighbours - stopping for chats as he walked his dog around the estate.

It said that its earnings have been protected by gains in chicken, which has attracted shoppers shunning beef.

Critics have shunned the contracts for blurring the line between investing and gambling.

“I think it’s very important that the publisher — the novel-making community, if I can put it like that — embraces that sense of risk rather than shuns it,” he said.

Old-fashioned value investors shunned options because options presumed an ability to time price movements in undervalued stocks.