United Kingdom News - Page 59

nternational News Brief: Gamblers will be put under the microscope in a study of betting habits by the University of Glasgow.

International News Brief: A sales assistant who stole £12,000 ($20,860) worth of boilers and showers to fund a gambling habit has been ordered to pay £4000 ($6953)compensation to his previous employers.

International News Brief: Sven Goran Eriksson's World Cup preparations are facing the nightmare spectre of a £700,000 ($1,043,092) betting rift between strikers Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney.

International News Brief: Miller Developments is hoping to steal a march on Glasgow's big three would-be super-casino operators by locating a new gambling and leisure complex in the centre of the city.

The UK facing online casino and poker operator, 32Red Plc has reached conditional agreement to be the new official club sponsor of Premiership football club Aston Villa.

International News Brief: The UK battle to build a super-casino in the East looks to be a two-horse race between Yarmouth and Southend, with the Norfolk team confident it has a far better case.

International News Brief: Empire Online is on the hunt for acquisitions, armed with the £250m it won in a legal settlement with rival PartyGaming this year.

International News Brief: Gamblers have stayed away from the capital's high-rolling Les Ambassadeurs casino since last year's July bombings on the underground and bus network.

International News Brief: A number of Scottish councils have decided to bid for the government's new super casino licence - gambling on winning it, bringing in tourists and getting cash for regeneration.

International News Brief: Stanley Leisure's bid to convert the Earls Court exhibition centre in west London into a casino is expected to face protests on Tuesday when it is conside

International News Brief: A casino is pushed as another way to ensure Harrogate retains its place in the top five of the UK's league table of conference and exhibition venues.

International News Brief: London Clubs International has sold its Les Ambassadeurs casino in London’s Mayfair to investment vehicle Twinwood for £115 million.

International News Brief: Proposals to build a super-casino in Wembley are set to be submitted to a government-appointed committee on March 31.

International News Brief: A £7 million mega-casino on the site of a former nightclub in Fountainbridge has been knocked back by city licensing chiefs.

International News Brief: Blackpool Council has formally unveiled its plans to bid for a regional or super-casino to the Casino Advisory Panel later this month.

International News Brief: This year's World Cup is going to see a 'seismic increase' in gambling ... and that's on top of betting on Big Brother and online poker.

International News Brief: A future Blackpool super casino will be hit with an extra £6 million per year tax bill, it was confirmed yesterday.

International News Brief: Local council bosses are betting on a bumper jobs jackpot if a casino is built in the Wakefield district.

International News Brief: Britain's bookmakers took a blow when the Chancellor imposed licence fees on their betting machines, a move that will cost the industry tens of millions of pounds, and increased the tax on one-armed bandits at arcades and clubs.

International News Brief: The Sportsman, Britain's first new national daily newspaper in 20 years, is betting that a gambling boom fueled by the Internet and televised soccer matches will help it overcome the industry's lackluster advertising growth.