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SAZKA appoints Justin King as National Lottery bid advisor

SBC News SAZKA appoints Justin King as National Lottery bid advisor

Justin King (CBE) has become the latest British business figurehead to join SAZKA Group’s bid to ‘refresh and revitalise’ the National Lottery.  The former Group CEO of Sainsbury’s Plc (2004-2015) will sit on the SAZKA ‘advisory board’ to provide counsel to Sir Keith Mills’ ‘bid team’, which is competing to win the government’s Fourth National Lottery Competition. King will play …

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Safer Online Gambling Group receives digital therapy funding

SBC News Safer Online Gambling Group receives digital therapy funding

The Safer Online Gambling Group (SOGG) announced today that it has had an application approved for £40,000 worth of funding to help develop digital tools. SOGG intends to use these digital tools to help prevent problem gambling behaviour and plans to launch the first digital solution within three months. The financial backing comes from the Inclusive Recovery Fund, available from …

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Betfair – Chocolate Digestives & Chocolate Hobnobs priced as ‘World Cup of Biscuits’ market favourites

SBC News Betfair - Chocolate Digestives & Chocolate Hobnobs priced as 'World Cup of Biscuits' market favourites

Betfair has priced Chocolate Digestives as its current 6/4 market favourite to win BBC’s Comic Relief 2017 ‘World Cup of Biscuits’. Presented by ‘Pointless’ co-host Richard Osman, this year’s Comic Relief show (starting 7 pm BBC Channels) seeks to find out and settle all debate on ‘which biscuit is king’. Starting today with a 32 biscuits head-to-head first knockout round, …

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