The race to build the only large casino on England’s east coast will be stepped up later this week when a £35 million casino and leisure complex scheme comes before planners. The project is backed in a report prepared by independent planning consultant Richard Wingate taken on by planners to avoid accusations of bias. Ahead [...]

A tourist island has hired experts to outline how it could introduce casino gambling safely. The £200,000 report by the Innovation Group is expected to end with a change in Bermuda’s gaming laws. That would mean the introduction of casinos — seen  as a potential silver bullet to save tourism — and a lottery, either [...]

A bid to offload Britain’s state-owned bookies has become the latest victim of the banks and shares crisis. The Government had planned to, but now — according to a statement given to MPs yesterday by Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe — a sale is “not appropriate in current market conditions”. A previous bid to flog it [...]