Llandudno Pier manager Paul Williams has completed a 44 mile walk along the north Wales coast in aid of St David’s Hospice, part of a series of activities intended to raise £4,000 for the palliative care charity.
Concerns are growing over the “often cosy relationship” that appears to exist between OHID and anti-gambling campaigners at the cost to many established gambling harm charities. Next.io is among a number of industry journals currently scrutini...
A study by the New Economics Foundation has found a national decline in domestic tourism is affecting the UK seaside economies the hardest, with spending at coastal resorts during summer 2025 down by more than a quarter on the same period in 2...
Exhibitions provide an ideal opportunity to identify trends, understand the power of new technologies and plan accordingly. January’s EAG fulfilled that function with Kashing’s James Luck shining a spotlight on how operators are embracing the ...
Game Nation recently launched a Rewards app and the impact has been felt immediately. According to CEO Mark Jepp customers are able to see the benefits and are enjoying the new app enabled smooth customer journey. The ultimate outcome is to en...
The Bacta Charitable Trust Ball is returning to its London roots in some style. The world famous, multi award winning Claridge’s Hotel will host the great and the good of the industry on June 12th – and tables, as they say, are have gone like ...
Luxury Leisure has been granted permission to open a new 24-hour Admiral AGC in Whitby after Government planning inspectors approved the proposal on appeal.
Are the wheels falling off the Gambling Commission tricycle? No chairman, no chief executive, just a lot of mid-level bureaucrats running the most powerful regulator with impunity. So, is the government really going to allow this farce to cont...
New analysis highlights the UK gambling industry’s £15.1bn annual yield, £3.7bn tax contribution and significant employment creation, but tighter regulations and increased taxation could put the Treasury’s golden goose at risk.
Accountancy firm Price Bailey has revealed that one-in-eight UK pubs are in “severe financial distress” and teetering on insolvency, with more than 8,600 venues reporting negative net assets, equivalent to 23 percent of the country’s 38,126 to...
Meeting the complex needs and requirements of a huge customer base is a delicate balancing act as Merlin Entertainments, owners of Alton Towers, can testify. During next week’s busy half-term the operator will be trialling changes to its ride ...
The UK’s piers are under serious threat with storms bashing the structures and economic struggles decimating the operator’s offerings. But Worthing council has shown a bit of budgetary flexibility to fund repairs to the attraction.
Two men from Essex convicted of using counterfeit £2 coins to defraud several service station slot machines of £3,000 have been given a community service order by Colchester Magistrates’ Court.
Rays of Sunshine was delighted to receive a generous donation of more than £43,000 from its friends at Whitehouse Leisure, following on from their year-long capybara plush fundraiser.
JD Wetherspoon’s founder and chair Tim Martin has told The Times that the pub giant paid £837.1m in tax for 2024/25 – the equivalent of more than £1m per pub – but urged the government to recognise that VAT equality between pubs and supermarke...
The Federation of Small Businesses has criticised the government for delivering a “sucker punch” to small businesses, highlighting the impact that rates revaluations and the cessation of relief will have on “the small firms we rely on day in a...
The Gambling Commission has published new rules regarding the removal of non-compliant gaming machines from venues, requiring all non-remote operators to act “quickly and effectively” to dispose of non-compliant products upon notification of b...
A new agreement between three key industry trade associations has formalised long-standing cooperation, supporting responsible use of gaming machines in pubs and strengthening joint engagement with government and regulators.
It’s good to talk! A Bacta team led by President Joseph Cullis attended its third regional meeting in five months. The gathering in South Shields not only served as an opportunity for Bacta to update members on developments impacting the indus...
Baroness Twycross has announced the launch of a new Illegal Gambling Taskforce aimed at addressing the growth of the black market in the UK, with industry bodies such as the BHA and BGC enlisted to help address what they acknowledge is likely ...
The Scottish Beer & Pub Association is standing up for pubs north of the border, a sector which, it claims has paid substantially more in business rates than their English counterparts with differences ranging from £11,095 to more than £21...
Reform UK promises sweeping tax cuts and major regulatory shake-up in a bid to rescue Britain’s pubs
Proposing a halving of hospitality VAT, cutting beer duty and scrapping business rates over four years, Reform UK claims its pub rescue package will revive struggling venues and reduce pint prices. Nigel Farage knows how to steal the headlines...
Bookmaker Geoff Banks has issued a scathing response to the Gambling Commission following a speech delivered at ICE by the regulator’s Executive Director of Research and Policy Tim Miller.
Following the part-destruction of Teignmouth Pier by Storm Ingrid earlier this month, the Brenner family have revealed that the increasing severity and unpredictability of storms are posing an existential threat to the 160-year-old structure....
As consumers seek more bang for their buck Target Darts and Bob Rudd have hit the bullseye with the launch of Target Darts Zone. Showcased at EAG Expo and then subsequently at a high profile after party at the BrewDog in Canary Wharf Target Da...