Day: 18 November 2019

A British gambling addict who generated the staggering £10,000 loss in ten minutes only, has shed more light on the help he found after trying to commit suicide on his birthday. As the 28-year-old man, who works as a taxi driver, revealed for the Liverpool Echo, he had stolen money from his family and friends and had used credit cards and loans to fuel his gambling addiction, only to eventually declare bankrupt. He confessed that he was only 12 when he started betting on football with his father. Then, as…

The Liberal Democratic party has called for credit cards to be banned from gambling transactions in the UK in order to tackle spreading problem gambling among British people. The party has made a promise to deal with the problem as part of which an increasing number of people get into debt as they are using their credit cards to fund a compulsive gambling habit. Under the proposed policy by the Liberal Democrats, the UK Government could block the online gambling sites and land-based bookmakers’ outlets from accepting credit cards as…