gambling Articles

Government planning changes that will make it easier for bookies to move in will damage the growth of our high streets The cat is out of the bag. In an exchange of correspondence (exposed by Labour's Hilary Benn through an FoI request) between a senior director at...

I was spurred to action when a licensing application was submitted in my ward for what would be the 25th betting shop in Manchester city centre. No longer are betting shops a place to go to put a flutter on the horses or the football. The primary use of these betting...

Tom Greatrex, Labour and Cooperative MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, will tonight outline concerns of the negative economic impact of fixed odds betting terminals in betting shops. For those of us who live close to high streets and main streets across the UK, the...

I was fortunate enough to be able to take a day’s annual leave last week, in order to catch up on what I will loosely call ‘personal admin’. My planned day of gym-dentist-bank predictably soon became a day of Jeremy Kyle-This Morning-Loose Women. It was then I...