Radical report by powerful group of MPs to call for ban on ALL gambling advertising in sport after year-long inquiry into damaging impact of betting on communities All-party parliamentary group have conducted year-long gambling inquiry Report will recommend stopping betting adverts on TV, online and in stadiums They will also call for ban on football … Read more
Gambling chief in line for £30m bonus slashes staff’s pay after dodging £3.5m fine for suicide scandal By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 1 June 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 1 June 2020 Playtech’s boss asked his staff to take a pay cut weeks before the gambling software company tried to … Read more
A former ‘den of iniquity’ that has been turned into a cliff-top romantic retreat is so popular it is booked up for the next 18 months. Doyden Castle, near Port Quin in Cornwall, was built in the early 19th century by a local landowner as a secret bolthole for gambling and drinking in with friends. … Read more
The death of 25-year-old Chris Bruney, an electrical engineer with a good career and his whole life ahead of him, will seem inexplicable to many people. How could this intelligent and hard-working man, with a loving and supportive family, become so hopelessly in debt through gambling that he felt he had no option but to … Read more
Sheikh Salah Hamdan Al Balawi is accused of failing to settle what the Les Ambassadeurs Club, off Park Lane, has claimed is a £2 million debt A Saudi Sheikh estimated to have assets of more than £100 million is locked in a alleged gambling debt dispute with an exclusive London casino which featured in the … Read more
Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, who built a business empire from scratch in Macau becoming one of Asia’s richest men, has died at the age of 98, his family said on Tuesday. Known as the ‘godfather’ of Macau’s casinos, Ho was instrumental in turning the semi-autonomous city from a sleepy Portuguese outpost into the world’s biggest … Read more
Bosses of two of Britain’s biggest gambling companies refuse to take pay cuts despite using taxpayer money to prop up their businesses By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:10 BST, 4 May 2020 | Updated: 22:10 BST, 4 May 2020 The bosses of two of Britain’s biggest gambling companies have refused to take … Read more
Michael Jordan insists he never had a gambling addiction in ESPN’s docuseries The Last Dance, claiming ‘I have a competition problem’ Michael Jordan’s history with gambling was laid bare in ESPN docuseries The Last Dance’s sixth episode that aired Sunday night Jordan’s gambling came under the national spotlight in the early 90s after he was … Read more
Online gambling sites begin taking bets on how the coronavirus will spread as professional sports leagues shut down and leave them struggling to make up lost revenue Some online gambling sites have begun taking prop bets on COVID-19’s spread Sites in Russia will take bets on city shutdowns, toilet paper shortages and more The estimated … Read more
A university worker who hanged herself after gambling away her entire salary at online casinos was failed by her bank and betting firms, her grieving parents said yesterday. Natasha White, 34, became hooked on games such as online roulette through apps she could play at home – despite having no interest in going to casinos … Read more