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International News Brief: The new Opera House Casino in Scarborough has smashed all records for pre-opening membership numbers for a UK casino.

betandwin has entered into a co-operation agreement with FC Slovan Liberec, the Czech division one soccer team.

International News Brief: The CEO of Greek betting company Intralot, Konstantinos Antonopoulos, says that the company is cultivating alliances which will possibly lead it to enter the casino market soon.

International News Brief: Manchester United football club has axed proposals to build a casino.

International News Brief: Developers are gambling on getting permission to open a casino to ensure mega success for a glitzy entertainment hub in The Dome.

International News Brief: Coventry's chances of winning Government approval for a super-casino are fading by the day, according to a senior member of Birmingham City Council's cabinet.

Scientific Games reports that its German subsidiary Scientific Games Honsel GmbH was awarded two contracts with Toto-Lotto Niedersachsen.

International News Brief: The UK Minister for Sport and Gambling, Richard Caborn, has said that there is no front-runner in the race to become host to the UK’s first super-casino, as he appointed the panel to decide where 17 casinos created by the new Gambling Act will be located.

International News Brief: The group of people which will decide whether Blackpool will be chosen as the site of the UK's only ‘super casino’ was beginning work on Monday.

Winward Gaming Group and Next Generation Entertainment team up to bring the online bingo to the United Kingdom.

International News Brief: An independent panel to advise the UK Government on the location of new casinos has been appointed, it was announced today.

International News Brief: Alexandra Palace opened its arms to major investors for the first time in its history last week in a move that could see parts of the building turned into a hotel, cinema, shops, casino, amusement arcade or even an art gallery.

International News Brief: Domestic gaming operators are fighting to be included in new European legislation that would potentially give them access to a multi-billion-euro market, but they fear heavy lobbying by state lotteries will block them.

International News Brief: The UK government has insisted there had been ‘no change of policy’ over super-casinos after claims it could back the construction of up to eight of them.

International News Brief: Hopes emerged last night that Yarmouth could still clinch a Las Vegas-style super casino with its jackpot of a projected 3.3 million visitors a year.

International News Brief: Two of the biggest betting companies in Cyprus have come out in favour of a proposal for a new law governing gambling.

International News Brief: Fernhart New Media is to launch a new gambling and horse racing portal, following its acquisition by business aggregator Netb2b2 last week.

International News Brief: Coventry appears to have taken pole position in the race to open Britain's first super casino, raising the possibility it might take Birmingham ten years to catch up.

International News Brief: Birmingham’s bid for a regional casino was set to come under pressure today with the launch of a rival multi-million pound project in Coventry.

News Brief: Gambling by mobile phone has rocketed, with the number of betting pages downloaded expected to approach three million this year, a rise of 367 per cent on 2004.