Gambling logos face ban from sport in blitz on betting firms amid strict limits on how much punters can lose online Wide-ranging review of legislation governing industry to be launched next week Items under consideration – dubbed ‘reformer’s shopping list’ – include maximum stakes online and checks on whether players can afford their losses New … Read more
Ladbrokes and Coral owner GVC to support gambling addicts as seeks to cleans up its act By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 12 November 2020 | Updated: 22:14 GMT, 12 November 2020 The owner of Ladbrokes and Coral yesterday sought to make a clean break with its chequered past following a … Read more
One in 10 children admit gambling with their own money amid fears thousands of families are being plunged into ‘tidal wave of misery’ More than third gambled in past year, according to Gambling Commission audit Close to 2% aged 11 to 16 classed ‘problem gamblers’ they’re so severely affected Experts blamed the proliferation of gambling … Read more
One in 10 children admit gambling with their own money amid fears thousands of families are being plunged into ‘tidal wave of misery’ More than third gambled in past year, according to Gambling Commission audit Close to 2% aged 11 to 16 classed ‘problem gamblers’ they’re so severely affected Experts blamed the proliferation of gambling … Read more
Every month, for more than a year, the sum of at least £5,000 was deposited into the bank account of hairdresser Ericka Carroll. The money didn’t come from her business, though. She would have had to ‘cut and blow dry’ an awful lot of hair at her small salon at the bottom of her garden … Read more
Every month, for more than a year, the sum of at least £5,000 was deposited into the bank account of hairdresser Ericka Carroll. The money didn’t come from her business, though. She would have had to ‘cut and blow dry’ an awful lot of hair at her small salon at the bottom of her garden … Read more
A customer adviser for Lloyds bank sold customers’ account details to her friend who was a gambling addict. Jaspreet Marwaha, from Birmingham, gave the information of more than 80 accounts to Mohammed Saif Maqsood, from Blackburn, who paid £50 for each set of card details and swiped between £82,000 and £92,000 from them. At one point the … Read more
A customer adviser for Lloyds bank sold customers’ account details to her friend who was a gambling addict. Jaspreet Marwaha, from Birmingham, gave the information of more than 80 accounts to Mohammed Saif Maqsood, from Blackburn, who paid £50 for each set of card details and swiped between £82,000 and £92,000 from them. At one point the … Read more
Offshore gambling companies should be forced to have UK bases to stop the Treasury losing hundreds of millions in tax, report says Social Market Foundation think-tank called for gambling firms to be based in UK Report found more than half of remote gambling services are based in Gibraltar Gambling firms should be forced to provide … Read more
For my patient Tanya*, it started innocently enough. Off work after an operation, she was bored and killing time online when she clicked on a pop-up advert for a betting site. ‘It seemed like fun,’ she told me. ‘The advert had women just like me in it. It was just a laugh.’ And at first … Read more