Europe News - Page 125

News Brief: Plans to establish a powerful gambling regulator will receive a boost today when a government report is published showing growing public support for tighter industry controls.

International News Brief: Sportingbet forecasts a 90 percent jump in quarterly profit, exceeding its own expectations for the past three months.

International News Brief: Bookmakers cut the odds on Tony Blair quitting before the next general election following the resignation of immigration minister Beverley Hughes.

International News Brief: British police are working with online bookmakers to head off blackmailers threatening denial of service attacks.

Kerzner International has been granted a Certificate of Consent from the Gaming Board for Great Britain.

International News Brief: U.S. consortium BLB Investors is poised to make a possible offer of over 800 pence a share bid for British gaming firm Wembley.

International News Brief: The Trocadero in London's Piccadilly Circus is being earmarked as the home for the UK's largest casino.

International News Brief: A suspected Nigerian swindling gang is active in the Netherlands again with a new fake lottery trick.

International News Brief: U.K. gambling operators will have to build opera houses, theatres and other cultural amenities if they want to open massive resort casinos.

International News Brief: A £30 million cinema, restaurant and casino complex creating 400 jobs in Swansea's city centre has got the go-ahead.

International News Brief: A hi-tech gang may have taken one of Britain's most exclusive casinos for £1.3million in an amazing sting.

International News Brief: Sportingbet has halted plans to launch an online betting exchange after an announcement on a clampdown of the controversial websites.

International News Brief: The future of Torbay's tourism received a boost yesterday after councillors backed the industry in a vote for a new £10 million casino complex.

International News Brief: Crime syndicates have cost betting companies millions of pounds in a series of internet sabotage attacks, it was revealed today.

International News Brief: An investigation into betting exchanges, whose emergence in recent years has been blamed for a rise in suspicious betting patterns in horseracing and prompted allegations of race fixing, is to be launched.

The Hendon Mob will challenge the world’s very best poker players in The British Open, at the Grosvenor in Victoria, London.

International News Brief: Chancellor Gordon Brown’s announcement of a review into the tax treatment of Internet betting exchanges and their clients was welcomed by traditional bookmakers today.

International News Brief: William Hill and Coral admitted they are preparing for a new wave of hacker attacks.

International News Brief: Irish trained Hardy Eustace caused a major upset by holding off Rooster Booster to win the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham.

International News Brief: Online poker is now the fastest growing form of internet gambling in Britain, while television shows such as the World Poker Tour have been winning huge audiences and attracting tens of thousands of new players to the game.