The Evening Standard has learned the Government is set to use a loophole in the Gambling Act to increase the number of 24-hour betting complexes.
The controversial-move emerged after the new owners of the ill-fated Millennium Dome unveiled plans for a giant leisure complex with space for a major casino at its heart.
Before the election, Labour was forced to scale back plans for dozens of super-casinos to only one after a massive revolt.
THE head of casinos at Stanley Leisure yesterday dismissed the chances of Manchester United securing the only UK supercasino as "extremely remote".
His comments came as US gaming giant Las Vegas Sands announced it would invest £218m in its proposed venture with the football club to build near Old Trafford.
Michael Riddy, of Liverpool-based Stanley, the UK's biggest casino operator, said: "The hot favourite is Blackpool. When the (gaming) bill went through there were MPs and Lords on all sides of the house who kept on mentioning Blackpool.
The latest fuel thrown on the great “American Idol is rigged and Carrie Underwood will win” conspiracy theory is that a respected British newspaper has printed that Carrie already has won.
In an article about BusinessWeek’s 25 Stars of Europe, The Independent lists Simon Fuller as one of the names on the list. The article goes on to describe Simon Fuller, as “the pop impresario whose American Idol TV competition was won this year by Carrie Underwood.”
Star Wars is the most famous movies series of all time. And the online casinos are tapping into that fact by placing odds on just how much money the final Star Wars prequel will gross once it opens in less than a week.
When it comes to finding things to bet on, the online casino never misses an opportunity for hype.
The media frenzy surrounding Star Wars is driving players to the online casino to bet on just how much money the new movie stands to gross.
A BBC film is to expose the secrets of British cinema in the 1930s, when the "talkies" took off. Shepperton Babylon, based on the book by Matthew Sweet, which takes its name from Kenneth Anger's account of movieland debauchery, Hollywood Babylon, will bring to life one of the most licentious decades in the history of the British industry.
Between 1927, when the first talkie was released, and the Second World War, studios creating a new generation of matinee idols and film-makers whose infidelities, suicides and scandals were fertile ground for newspapers.
Genting, Asia's biggest publicly traded casino operator, has announced plans to combine its stakes in Stanley Leisure and London Clubs International, part of a strategy to expand in Britain's gambling industry.
The move will enhance the company's "ability to leverage its investments in the U.K. and expand its leisure and hospitality related business activities"
Genting said in a statement released late Friday in Kuala Lumpur.
Online Casino gambling has long been popular in Europe. In some respects the online casino legislation may change sooner in Europe and the UK than in the US.
French online casinos are no exception to this rule. The French online casino business has been in full swing for several years. It is estimated that the French gamble twice as often and for three times as long as British online casino players.
The increase in high speed Internet connection within France has a lot to do with the rise in popularity of the online casino.
Five cents was a good bet in 1905, when Nevada recognized slot machines.
"A nickel was considered a big amount of money then," said Marshall Fey, grandson of Charles Fey, the man gambling historians credit with inventing the slot machine.
"A quarter would have been too much," he said.
A century has passed since the Nevada Legislature voted to regulate slots, approving fees and rules for what were commonly called "nickel-in-the-slot machines."
Singapore on Monday legalised casino gambling in spite of strong local opposition, paving the way for two multi-billion dollar casinos that were expected to boost the city-state’s tourism industry and create thousands of jobs.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told parliament the government had decided to approve two casino developments worth a combined S$5bn (US$3bn). One will be built on Marina Bay near the downtown area and one on the resort island of Sentosa.
Eva Longoria of 'Desperate Housewives' Helps Usher in New Las Vegas Lounge With Pussycat Dolls.
Eva Longoria of "Desperate Housewives" had a celebrity-laden crowd purring when she helped open a new lounge featuring the famous Pussycat Dolls at Caesars Palace hotel-casino.
Armed with a horse whip, wearing knee-high leather boots and a zebra-striped mini skirt, Longoria introduced the sexy song-and-dance group to Las Vegas with a provocative meow on Saturday night.
