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View image in fullscreen Richard Desmond set for court clash with regulator over National Lottery bid Exclusive: Tycoon rejects settlement offer from Gambling Commission linked to failed bid to run UK lottery The media tycoon Richard Desmond is set for a courtroom showdown with the Gambling Commission that could cost good causes tens of millions

View image in fullscreen Pizza Hut criticised over ‘dangerous’ takeaway promotion including free spins at online roulette Promotion offered casino games without knowing if customers were in recovery for gambling addiction, say campaigners Business live – latest updates Pizza Hut has been criticised for running a “dangerous” promotion that offered customers “free spins” at online

View image in fullscreen ‘Grooming our children’: politicians demand Sportsbet pull promotional filters from Snapchat Exclusive: Monique Ryan, Kate Chaney, Andrew Wilkie and Sarah Hanson-Young all call for gambling giant to remove the social media ads immediately Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Several federal politicians have urged Sportsbet to

View image in fullscreen Making sense of racing’s ‘£3bn black hole’ and affordability checks row Accusations have been thrown by both sides in betting dispute but there may be hope for racing amid the noise The increasingly frenzied cycle of claim and counterclaim over the impact of “affordability checks” on punters on the sport’s revenue

View image in fullscreen Australian children seeing gambling ads via Sportsbet filter on instant messaging app Snapchat Exclusive: Filters, including one that turns a person into a horse, include Sportsbet logos and direct 18+ users to open a gambling account Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Gambling ads from Sportsbet

View image in fullscreen ‘Serious and silly’: Radio 4 team behind Now Show replacement plan to break news as well as joking about it The broadcaster’s recently launched Naked Week will mix satirical humour and topical investigative journalism Radio 4’s new topical comedy show, which replaces the long-running The Now Show, will break the news,

View image in fullscreen Lindsay Hoyle must apologise for opening Betfred HQ, gambling reform campaigners say Decision brings Commons speaker’s role into disrepute, says Will Prochaska Anti-gambling campaigners have called on the Commons speaker to apologise after Sir Lindsay Hoyle opened Betfred’s multimillion-pound new HQ with a dedicated plaque. The Betfred HQ in Warrington was

View image in fullscreen Government confirms online slots cap and betting levy to fund NHS services Gambling minister says measures will be ‘instrumental’ in helping those most at risk of addiction Bookmakers and casinos will be forced to fund NHS services that tackle problem gambling, after Labour rubber-stamped the previous government’s plans, which also include

View image in fullscreen Labour poised to announce £100m levy on gambling companies Money to be used to fund education and treatment of gambling harms in plans to be unveiled as soon as this week Casinos and bookmakers in Great Britain will be forced to pay a £100m-a-year levy to fund research, education and treatment

View image in fullscreen Widow of gambling addict lambasts watchdog’s failure to investigate suicides Exclusive: Annie Ashton, whose husband killed himself, says more people will die because of Gambling Commission inaction The widow of a man who took his own life after becoming addicted to gambling says more people will die because the regulator is

View image in fullscreen Fanduel network shows an industry bought and paid for by gambling Amid the normalization of gambling, betting companies are resembling broadcasters and vice versa – and coverage is rapidly becoming a tangled web of vested interests In sports broadcasting’s equivalent of a team changing its colors from red to blue in

View image in fullscreen TechScape: Betting markets come for everything – and the FBI comes for a betting market This week in tech news, online predictors are riding high after a slew of accurate US election wagers. Plus, Trump and Musk try to weaponize the communications regulator Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign

View image in fullscreen Great Britain ‘lags behind’ Europe on betting ad regulation, says gambling charity Public health concerns fuel restrictions across comparable markets, yet UK remains ‘lenient’ Great Britain “lags behind” Europe on measures to restrict betting adverts, according to a report released days after official data showed a sharp increase in the number

View image in fullscreen Proportion of young people in the UK with gambling problem has more than doubled, official data reveals Gambling Commission figures shows shock surge to 85,000, in number of children deemed to have addiction The proportion of young people in Great Britain with a gambling problem has more than doubled, according to

View image in fullscreen Addicted to love: how dating apps ‘exploit’ their users Online services that promise to find people romantic matches have been likened to gambling products designed to keep customers hooked “Designed to be deleted” is the tagline of one of the UK’s most popular dating apps. Hinge promises that it is “the

View image in fullscreen Trump’s lead over Harris in betting market erodes as platforms tighten odds Top platforms had placed Republican ahead but Democrat is catching up and even leads on one app Betting markets have narrowed significantly on the eve of Tuesday’s presidential election, eroding Donald Trump’s lead over Kamala Harris as Americans cast

View image in fullscreen Rachel Reeves ‘missed opportunity’ to raise £900m from online casinos Labour’s links to gambling industry questioned again after decision not to raise tax rate for online gaming Rachel Reeves has been criticised over a “missed opportunity” to raise £900m from online casinos in her first budget as chancellor, amid concerns about

View image in fullscreen How computer-assisted wagering became horse racing’s insider trading Cash-strapped racetracks are selling out everyday bettors to whales who use algorithms to wager huge sums at friendlier odds. It’s a rigged system designed for the rich to get richer As the thoroughbred horse racing industry fades in America, I think back on

View image in fullscreen Opinion polls have Harris and Trump locked in a tight race. ‘Gambling polls’ say otherwise Election betting platforms have put Trump’s chance of winning higher, and with trust in media depleting, more people are turning to them Most gamblers might want to sit out the US election. It’s too close to

View image in fullscreen The Guardian view on gambling: a public health approach is a good bet Editorial The industry points the finger at individuals. But addiction is a social problem that requires prevention as well as cure The regulation of internet gambling was left out of the last government’s online harms bill. So far,