Hamilton head coach Brian Rice has revealed he reported himself to the Scottish Football Association for breaching betting rules after his “horrible disease” of gambling addiction returned.
Gaming companies risk “setting kids up for addiction” by including gambling tasks in their video games, the director of mental health for the NHS said.
The NHS’s mental health chief has called for bookmakers to end tactics that are helping fuel the UK’s gambling addiction crisis.
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The gambling industry should be given no credit for its part in ending the row over FA Cup matches being exclusively streamed on betting sites, an MP has said.
A row over an FA Cup streaming rights deal which was criticised for encouraging gambling appears to have been resolved.
Problem gambling is “a root issue” behind a significant number of current and former footballers seeking help for mental health issues, according to the Professional Footballers’ Association’s head of welfare.
Politicians have urged the Football Association to reconsider its streaming partnership with bet365, saying it creates “an active incentive to gamble”.
Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan has said she hopes the Football Association will “reconsider” after it allowed a betting company to broadcast FA Cup matches.
The Football Association has been advised to “reconsider” its relationship with bet365 by Nicky Morgan, the secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Gambling firm 888 has cheered an all-time record high for monthly revenues in December, but said poker remains a “challenging market”.
A Dundee gambling premises has closed its doors for good this month adding to the sea of "To Let" signs on Reform Street.
Crystal Palace winger Andros Townsend has revealed he lost £46,000 in one night while struggling with a gambling addiction.
More than half of 17-year-olds have gambled in the past year, according to a new study.
UK gambling firms saw their shares dive after MPs called for a crackdown on online casinos.
The UK gambling regulator has said it shares concern about loot boxes in video games but warned that the current law makes it hard to define them as gambling.
The ring-a-ding-ding of slot machines is set to return to a city centre street for the first time in more than a decade.
Fortnite will now show users the contents of paid loot boxes before they purchase them, following long-running comparisons to gambling.
Video game loot boxes are acting as a gateway to problem gambling, new research has suggested.