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Las Vegas gaming operators said Thursday that they expect casino-style resorts will eventually be built in the United Kingdom despite a parliamentary vote against expanded gaming.

International News Brief: Plans for a major new casino in Leeds were in disarray today after the Government suffered a humiliating defeat in the House of Lords.

International News Brief: Blackpool could yet get a super-casino after peers inflicted a shock defeat on the Government by narrowly rejecting controversial plans for a super-casino in Manchester and 16 other large and small casinos across the country.

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International News Brief: Tessa Jowell has refused to drop an all-or-nothing ultimatum to MPs and peers over her plans for 17 new casinos.

International News Brief: Blackpool’s faint hopes of rescuing its plans for a super-casino have received a fillip this week, as the Conservative Party declared it would side against the Casino Advisory Panel’s recommendation of Manchester in a vital Commons vote.

International News Brief: Tory leader David Cameron has ordered Conservative MPs to oppose plans to build Britain's first supercasino in Manchester, it has emerged.

International News Brief: The UK Tories were expected to reveal their hand ahead of next week's crucial Commons' vote.

International News Brief: The UK Remote Gaming Duty was set at 15 per cent, in line with that for bookmakers and bingo halls.

International News Brief: Hight Court judges are to decide whether controversial plans to create a fourth casino in Northampton should go ahead.

nternational News Brief: Senior Manchester politicians have rejected concerns raised in the House of Lords about the city's winning supercasino bid.

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nternational News Brief: Rank Group PLC said the gaming duty changes announced in Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's Budget today will hit profits at its casinos, raising casino gaming duty for the group by 8 mln stg per annum.

nternational News Brief: The selection criteria used to pick the sites for 17 new casinos has been criticised by a Lords committee.

nternational News Brief: Gordon Brown is expected to use his last Budget speech on Wednesday to introduce a new UK gaming tax for online casinos and poker companies.

News Brief: The largest casino in London is to open in Leicester Square's historic Empire cinema building in May.

International News Brief: UK sports minister Richard Caborn has defended the decision to grant a super casino licence to Manchester.

International News Brief: Sheffield Council's top officer has criticised the selection process for the UK's first super casino in which the city lost out to Manchester.

International News Brief: Professor Stephen Crow, the chairman of the independent Casino Advisory Panel was this week given a rough ride by a House of Lords committee.

International News Brief: Ads for online and traditional gambling will hit the UK's airwaves from September, the government has confirmed.