United Kingdom News - Page 38

With its one year anniversary approaching the CAP Euro team are planning an even better event for January in London.

Scotland's bingo players are celebrating after a brand new online bingo site was launched specially for them - Scot Bingo.

International News Brief: A bookmaker claimed he had been robbed after losing thousands of pounds on a gaming machine at work, a British court heard.

International News Brief: Two self-confessed gambling addicts who funded a spree at a London casino using a stolen cheque book have been jailed.

Bluff Europe and poker club, Dusk Till Dawn, have teamed up to offer the membership of DTD with free copies of Bluff Europe.

BBC’s reality investment program Dragons’ Den has made an investment in online gaming site GamingAlerts.co.uk.

International News Brief: Sportswear tycoon Mike Ashley is understood to be the front-runner in the £90 million auction of Les Ambassadeurs, one of London's plushest casinos.

International News Brief: A gambler known as the Fat Man yesterday won a court battle not to pay back £2 million he lost in one night at Aspinalls Club casino.

International News Brief: Jockey Kieren Fallon came second in a race he should have won 'at a canter', a trial has been told.

International News Brief: A group of Irish investors is close to clinching a deal to buy the Racing Post newspaper, considered the bible of British horseracing.

The increasing deployment of multiple mobile payment technologies and liberalisation of remote gambling legislation is expected to push total annual wagers on mobile phones to nearly $12bn by 2010.

WassOnline.com has joined forces with Pacific Poker to offer all new players to the site the chance to play in a $1,000 Texas Hold'em free roll.

International News Brief: Business leaders say the Midlands' first gaming academy, set to open in Nuneaton next month, will open up massive job opportunities in the area.

A report released today by the U.K. Gambling Commission reveals that problem gambling has not increased over the last eight years despite the availability of Internet gambling.

Over 42 contestants took part in the Golden Palace world gurning competition.

International News Brief: The internet and other new forms of gambling have not led to an increase in people having a flutter since 1999, a Gambling Commission study has found.

BingoPort.co.uk has released figures today revealing that the UK online bingo market is in an extremely healthy position.

A study by academics in the United Kingdom hopes to establish a baseline on the rate of gambling and problem gambling in the region.

Camelot Group has signed an agreement with the United Kingdom's National Lottery Commission for the next license to operate the U.K. National Lottery.

International News Brief: Racecourse operator Arena Leisure said yesterday it had cleared a vital hurdle to its plans to build Britain's first 'racino'.