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International News Brief: Damian Aspinall’s flagship casino and entertainment venue, Aspers, is set to open at The Gate in Newcastle next Thursday.

International News Brief: Lady luck appears to be smiling on PartyGaming after the online poker and casino operation reported a surge in revenues.

International News Brief: Casinos have missed out on a boom in online gaming over the past several years, but deals with sports-betting firms still offer a belated route into the new multi-billion-dollar industry.

New study indicates that the size of the German betting market will grow from currently Euro 2.2 billion to about Euro 5 billion by 2010.

International News Brief: Documents obtained by a London newspaper reveal that Australia's richest man, Kerry Packer, was no idle spectator when it came to convincing the British Government of the need to liberalise its gambling laws.

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.