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International News Brief: Blackpool could yet get a super-casino after peers inflicted a shock defeat on the Government by narrowly rejecting controversial plans for a super-casino in Manchester and 16 other large and small casinos across the country.

ome of poker's most influential and well known stars from the US and across Europe have confirmed their participation in the 26th Irish Poker Open being held at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin over Easter weekend 2007.

International News Brief: Tessa Jowell has refused to drop an all-or-nothing ultimatum to MPs and peers over her plans for 17 new casinos.

International News Brief: Tory leader David Cameron has ordered Conservative MPs to oppose plans to build Britain's first supercasino in Manchester, it has emerged.

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International News Brief: The UK Remote Gaming Duty was set at 15 per cent, in line with that for bookmakers and bingo halls.

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nternational News Brief: Rank Group PLC said the gaming duty changes announced in Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's Budget today will hit profits at its casinos, raising casino gaming duty for the group by 8 mln stg per annum.

The European Commission has requested that Denmark, Finland and Hungary change their laws to allow open competition in the sports betting market.

International News Brief: The European Commission will step up legal action against four countries in a bid to open the betting market across the 27-nation European Union.

nternational News Brief: The selection criteria used to pick the sites for 17 new casinos has been criticised by a Lords committee.

nternational News Brief: Gordon Brown is expected to use his last Budget speech on Wednesday to introduce a new UK gaming tax for online casinos and poker companies.

News Brief: The largest casino in London is to open in Leicester Square's historic Empire cinema building in May.

Titan Poker, one of the fastest growing online poker rooms, has launched its popular poker software in Danish and Finnish.

The EFTA Court has released its decision on whether Norway's national legislation intended to introduce a monopoly for slot machines was in conformity with EFTA's internal market regulations.

International News Brief: UK sports minister Richard Caborn has defended the decision to grant a super casino licence to Manchester.

International News Brief: Professor Stephen Crow, the chairman of the independent Casino Advisory Panel was this week given a rough ride by a House of Lords committee.

International News Brief: Ads for online and traditional gambling will hit the UK's airwaves from September, the government has confirmed.

International News Brief: Prof .Stephen Crow, chairman of the Casino Advisory Panel, has been invited to explain the recommendation of Manchester as the preferred site for the UK's first Las Vegas-style gambling mecca.

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