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Betting industry tributes have been paid to bookmaker George Carrigill, who passed away last Thursday following a short illness. Aged 84, Carrigill was the founder of Dewsbury (West Yorkshire) based independent bookmaker ‘Carrigill’s Betting Centres’, a business he had first started in 1954 with the £300 his father had left him. Carrigill was one of the first UK businessmen to …

World Cup winner Robert Pires has pledged to provide bwin with a “new perspective that the fans can enjoy” after being appointed as a brand ambassador for the European sportsbook. In the newly created position, the Frenchman will engage with bwin customers across France and the UK. A key part of his role will see him produce and feature in …

Unibet and bet365 shared top billing for May’s biggest match on bettingexpert, with both bookmakers accounting for 10.29% of the tips on last month’s Madrid derby at the Bernabeu. The pair made up the top two for each of the top five matches on bettingexpert, which also included both matches between Monaco and Juventus, San Antonio Spurs vs Houston Rockets …

Checkd Media the operating company of leading UK sports betting portal TeamFA has confirmed that it has appointed Manchester-based digital creative agency e3creative to develop and design its new TeamFA website. Following an agency tender process, Checkd management selected e3creative to lead the redevelopment of the TeamFA website, with a view to gain optimal user experience and cross convergence throughout …

FTSE-listed Ladbrokes Coral Group has announced that it will integrate retail property management Hexagon software across its network of UK betting shops. Hexagon is a global provider of enterprise applications for commercial property management. The agreement will see its LandMark 4 solution integrated across Ladbrokes Coral’s portfolio of 3,5000 UK betting premises. Ladbrokes Coral retail management detailed that Hexagon provisions …

Defending champion Sarah Shannon (OneBet) reduced the gap at the top of the Tipster Challenge to just 0.18 points after a victory for her Nap of the Day ‘Gulf Of Poets’ at Hamilton. Stephen Harris, the horse racing guru at bettingexpert, still holds a slender lead in the Betting Gods sponsored competition, despite landing just a single winner on Souls …

Betfair has teamed up with the Drone Racing League (DRL), the leading authority for professional drone racing to offer betting markets on the final race of the Allianz World Championship circuit at Alexandra Palace London (13 June). The Championship race will be the UK’s first professional drone race and will be held as part of London Tech Week, Europe’s largest …

With less than 24-hours to go until polling stations open, UK bookmakers have shortened the odds on a Conservative Party UK 2017 General Election ‘majority victory’. This morning Paddy Power Politics, detailed that it had cut its ‘Tory Majority’ price from 1/4 to 2/9. Furthermore, the bookmaker has drifted Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s chances of becoming PM to 4/1, having …

In a new role as horse racing tipster for OneBet, Sarah Shannon is back to defend her Tipster Challenge title in the seven-race meet at Hamilton. Shannon has taken a chance with second favourite Gulf Of Poets (4:10) for her Nap of the Day, which can score double points for the Betting Gods sponsored competition. By contrast, bettingexpert’s Stephen Harris …