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Campaigners seeking a ban on gambling advertising and gambling sponsorship deals in football suspended are organising an event that would see them walk between Edinburgh and Glasgow. More than 40 individuals affected by gambling, including some recovering problem gamblers and their families, will participate in the 60-mile march between the two largest cities in Scotland, which is set to end at Hampden Park – the national stadium in Glasgow. A group of 40 of us – all harmed by gambling – are walking to encourage these clubs without gambling sponsors…

Reports say that the long-awaited proposals for the UK Government to bring reforms to the country’s gambling legislation are being delayed and are not likely to get officially announced until May. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) started a review of gambling laws in December 2020, following increasing concerns over rising problem gambling rates and gambling exposure of children through advertising and football sponsorship. As previously reported, a white paper was officially expected to be published before the end of last year. However, the authorities delayed the…

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) revealed that recently-held research has found that operations of illegal lotteries available on the social media platform Facebook were disrupted. During the investigation, which was preliminarily focused on the unlicenced and illegal lotteries’ operations, the major gambling regulatory body in the UK has worked in collaboration with local law enforcement agencies through the Government Agency Intelligence Network (GAIN). The UKGC has also joined forces with specialists from the social networking platform. The services of lotteries operating without an operating licence or in violation of the…

The casino regulatory body of Western Australia has admitted that it failed to properly manage some conflicts of interest at the time it was monitoring Crown Perth’s operations. It is the Gaming and Wagering Commission – a part-time regulatory board consisting of 7 members that holds meeting every month – that currently regulates the casino property of the Australian gambling giant. In its operations, the Commission is assisted by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSCI). Currently, a specially-established Royal Commission is still holding an investigation whether…

The National Health Service (NHS) is making preparations to cut all ties to its addiction clinics’ funding by the UK gambling industry because officers fear that gambling-related money could compromise their work. The move of the NHS comes at a time when public health concerns have been constantly rising, along with calls for gambling products and services to be addressed in the same way as tobacco products. As reported by The Times, sources close to the matter have revealed that the final decision will be made by the end of…

Some new analysis of the UK problem gambling charity GambleAware has shown that up to 1 million women in the country could be at risk of experiencing gambling-related harm. The revelations came right before the launch of GambleAware’s new campaign that is especially aimed at women and seeks to highlight the most common signs of gambling addiction and encourage female problem gamblers to seek support. The largest British gambling charity has confirmed that local gambling addicts are mostly male but also noted that the number of women who seek treatment…

The head of the gambling giant bet365 Denise Coates has been announced on the Sunday Times Tax List as the largest taxpayer in the UK in 2021. According to reports, the Coates family paid a total of £481.7 million, which put them on top of the annual ranking of the biggest tax payments in the country for the third consecutive year. Although the tax payment of the family owning one of the largest gambling empires on a global scale was down from the £573 million tax they paid in 2020,…

The Government of the state of Victoria is currently facing increasing pressure to adopt the strictest rules in terms of gambling addiction on the poker machines offered at Crown Melbourne. The growing criticism comes at a moment when various experts have warned that problem gamblers could be pushed away from the casino and into some suburban gaming facilities in case the proposed measure is imposed. As reported earlier this week, the Government of Premier Andrews is reconsidering an extremely important recommendation made by Commissioner Ray Finkelstein after the Royal Commission…

The Government of Premier Daniel Andrews is once again considering a promise to implement maximum loss and time limits for the players of Crown Resorts’ pokies. In 2021, the Royal Commission headed by Ray Finkelstein, QC, made a recommendation for stricter rules to be imposed so that problem gamblers are given the chance to reduce their losses. Some of the proposed measures included mandatory limits on the time and money spent by customers on the 2,628 poker machines in Crown Melbourne. According to reports, in 2019/2020, poker machines generated a…

A group of Members of Parliament (MPs) has criticised the regulator of the British gambling industry, saying that the watchdog was trying to reduce problem gambling rates and was encouraging the Government to unveil special measures for the sector. The latest report released by the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on gambling-related harm has presented a number of controversial findings. As mentioned above, one of the key claims made by the Group was that the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has been trying to impose extremely harsh measures on the gambling sector.…