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St. Helens Rugby League Club is to launch rugby league’s first club-branded gaming website in a deal which could generate significant new revenues for the club.

Warehouse worker Peter Battye won a GBP25,000 jackpot on a mobile phone casino game on the Phone Casino.

International News Brief: Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain has welcomed the completion of the Independent Casino Advisory Panel's series of examinations-in-public of the proposals for a regional casino.

International News Brief: A racing industry consortium has made a formal offer to buy the Tote, the state-owned bookmaker, for less than the £400m the British Government was looking for.

International News Brief: Professional gamblers are rushing to buy £1,000 ($1,879) devices that they believe will enable them to win millions of pounds in casinos when the gambling industry is deregulated next year.

International News Brief: Blackpool’s entertainment and leisure industries have warned that without a super-casino the resort is threatened with terminal decline.

International News Brief: A financial adviser who stole over £2m from his clients to feed an online gambling addiction was last night facing a substantial jail sentence after pleading guilty to theft, false accounting and forgery.

International News Brief: The Las Vegas casino giants are looking to buy up British gambling companies in their aggressive campaign to expand.

nternational News Brief: The company which runs Blackpool's largest amusement arcade is launching a legal challenge against the town's bid for a super casino licence.

addy Power today launches ‘outright betting’ and ‘to make final table’ betting for the London leg of the European Poker Tour , Victoria Casino, 21-24 September 2006.

West Ham United today announced the selection of Pinnacle Casino and Blue Chip Games as the East London club's official online casino partners.

Bullet Business have launched a brand new industry meeting point that brings together the on and offline industries. Bullet Business Europe will take place in London Dec 6-7, 2006.

International News Brief: A super-casino in Sheffield would generate 14,000 jobs in the city over 20 years, it has been claimed.

From September 2006, bingo players will be able, for the first time, to vote for their favourite UK CM Team in a UK-only monthly poll.

nternational News Brief: The UK supercasinos storm has taken another controversial turn after it emerged that the owners of the Dome are already advertising for croupiers even before they have secured a licence.

International News Brief: A supercasino in Glasgow would create 2500 jobs and attract more than half a million extra visitors each year, it was claimed yesterday.

International News Brief: Newcastle's bid for a super casino and regional conference centre received a massive show of support today.

International News Brief: The head of a body charged with advising the Government on the choice of the first super-casino for the UK reasserted his independence during a public hearing today.

nternational News Brief: A hearing to put forward Cardiff's bid to site the UK's first super-casino has heard all bidders still have a chance.

News Brief: Preston has promised to be a real tower of strength for neighbouring town Blackpool in the resort's super casino bid - with the city drooling over an estimated 6,000 jobs and £500 million economic spin off if it gets the go ahead.