The UK is bracing for its first heatwave of 2024, and our odds experts are confident it will be hotter than some of Europe’s most sun-kissed destinations this weekend. Sunday 12th May will be the hottest day of the year (1/2) Major cities in England and Scotland odds-on to be hotter than Ibiza Weekend temperature …

Although another delay to the government gambling white paper has left regulators and charities angered, it is increasingly likely that the review will be published shortly after the Easter recess, which concludes on April 17th. Government Gambling White Paper: What Does it Mean For Operators and Bettors? Details of ministers’ gambling reform are yet to …

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) have outlined their ‘five-year strategy’ to try and reduce suicide rates, and included in their list of related risks is gambling harm. DHSC Undersecretary for Mental Health, Maria Caulfield, revealed £150m in funds to bolster the NHS’s wide-reaching care for at-risk patients. For the first time, gambling …

Sachithra Senanayake, a former Sri Lanka cricket international, is alleged to have been involved in match-fixing offences. The top Sri Lanka cricket league, the Lanka Premier League (LPL), is where the alleged offences took place in 2020 after Senanayake attempted to involve players in a match-fixing scheme. Senanayake, who was a first class cricketer and …

The Victoria Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC) has found evidence of operators offering incentives to members of sports clubs to make an account, which is in direct breach of their guidelines. Victoria Gambling Betting Sites are not allowed, under the Gambling Reguatlion Act of 2003, to offer incentives to become a member, nor for …

Details of GambleAware donations across the first quarter of the year have been released, and the independent charity and support network reported donations were slightly lower year-on-year. GambleAware, the UK’s leading charitable organisation for problem gamblers, reported details of its finances for the first quarter of the 2023-24 financial year. In total, they received £430,813 …

GambleAware have expressed their disappointment after new deals were struck between gambling operators and Premier League clubs, despite the government’s future ban on front-of-shirt sponsors. Premier League clubs are free to explore new deals with betting companies until the ban on shirt sponsors comes into effect at the end of the 2025/26 season. It is …

Sweden gambling operators directly contacting customers who displayed signs of at-risk problematic behaviour reported a discernible change in behaviour as a result. Swedish Gambling Operators Report Positive Change Swedish regulator Spelinspektionen receives data every six months from three of the nation’s biggest bookmakers, in which they pledge to reveal what they do to try and …

The government’s Gambling White Paper has been labelled as ‘very weak’ by an NHS clinical lead, who has warned that the UK’s growing levels of addiction will only increase from this point on. The clinical lead for the NHS Northern Gambling Service, Dr Matthew Gaskell, has warned policy makers that the recently published Gambling White …