Sport betting
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Gaming company plans shareholder boost and increase in dividend after good results
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Long-predicted move follows five-year turnaround plan leaving shares at 25% lower than when Richard Glynn took the helm
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Greg Wood: The first three home in last year’s Betfair Chase – Cue Card, Dynaste and Silviniaco Conti – renew their rivalry at Haydock
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Hunter Felt: After the players’ chief attacked the salary cap, the commissioner’s Times op-ed was perfectly pitched to boost the riches at his command
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NBA chief says bettting ‘should be brought into the sunlight’ and highlights example of British sports betting
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Morwenna Ferrier: Online shopping and gentrification don’t have to spell doom for local shops. Businesses that adapt to people’s desire for social interaction can thrive
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Greg Wood: American Hope stands out as the best bet for the totepool Challenge Cup while Encke runs for the third time this year
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Chris Cook: Sole Power is the favourite for Saturday’s Sprint Cup but Extortionist will not let the seven-year-old have it all his own way
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Bookmakers’ odds suggest there will be another rollover in the Scoop6 for which £3m is expected in Saturday’s pool
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A third of shareholders in the online betting firm vote against pay and bonus arrangements for the company's directors
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Greg Wood: The card at Goodwood this afternoon is as ordinary as it gets on the Sussex downs, but the juvenile events might offer form to keep an eye on
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Chris Cook: Sheikh Mohammed’s Future Empire is full of promise and may have enough improvement in him to win the Solario Stakes
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Kevin McKenna: More than 350,000 in Britain are addicted already – and the numbers are growing
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Betting industry insider Adrian Parkinson explains why measures to curb addictive fixed-odds betting terminals don't go far enough
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Online business made only £3m in operating profits in six months to June as it struggled to catch up with rivals
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Labour has revealed plans to tax all sports betting in the UK and put the revenue into grassroots sport
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Open thread: Rory McIlroy’s father has won £100,000 on a wager he made 10 years ago. Tell us about your biggest or most bizarre bet
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Denise Coates receives more than £60m in pay and dividends from the online business she started from a car park in Stoke 14 years ago
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Four other players get shorter bans following investigations by the league's integrity unit
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Three syndicates who pooled their tickets in the Scoop6 bonus race at York shared the £5.5m prize, while wheelie bin cleaner Craig Brazier loses but says: ‘I can chill out now’
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Wheelie bin cleaner Craig Brazier had spoken of buying a racehorse after his £1.3m Scoop6 win but was later having second thoughts
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Bookmakers report that Saturday’s eight winning Scoop6 tickets have all been claimed, including three betting shop punters
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All professional players in English football will be banned from betting on any matches anywhere in the world from next season
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A study revealing £83bn in illicit funds are laundered via illegal betting markets annually has prompted renewed calls for governments to tackle the problem
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The betting industry is trying to win punters over with a series of half-truths and paranoia regarding job losses in a bid to halt further FOBT taxes
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The Grand National annually attracts a large number of bets, but when bookies' favourites rarely win, how do you decide where to place your bet?
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Fixed odds betting terminals reduce employment, have a role in money laundering and draw in vulnerable sectors of society
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Greg Wood: George Osborne's tax hike on fixed odds betting terminals in betting shops was lambasted by bookmakers although it could have given them greater influence at the Treasury
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Bingo halls insist they will pass the duty cut on to customers by possibly slashing entry prices or beefing up prize pots
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Three of the winners were trained by his former employees and the gambler and former trainer described the experience as 'satisfying'
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Figures from the Campaign for Fairer Gambling used a mix of industry and regulatory data on the use of fixed odds betting terminals
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Editorial: Of the £2.5bn being poured into FOBT machines in poor British towns, £0.5bn never comes back out again
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Amount gambled on high-speed machines in deprived boroughs is double that staked in richest areas, report claims
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Bookmakers' industry code will allow gamblers to limit time and money spent on high-speed gaming machines
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