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Mecca Bingo has bolstered its UK brand coverage by becoming the lead sponsor of ITV’s Loose Women, beginning in January 2024. Broadcast on weekdays from 12:30 to 13:30, Loose Women is the principal daytime panel show of ITV, which attracts an estimated daily audience of 3 million viewers. On air since 1999, Loose Women serves as ITV’s longest-running talk show, …

Sky Betting & Gaming (Sky Bet) has donated more than £250,000 to fund life-changing support at one of Yorkshire’s leading charities – the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund. Hundreds of staff and guests gathered at SBG’s Annual Charity Gala in Leeds on Wednesday for a night of fund-raising activity, hosted by ITV Racing’s Oli Bell and Ed Chamberlin. A silent auction, …

With the Premier League withdrawing gambling sponsorships from the front of shirts from the 2027/28 season, the English top-flight will be looking for new sectors to fill the revenue gap left behind. Whilst the betting sector has generated millions for betting companies in terms of the cash payments of sponsorships, sports data and insights firm Horizm believes that other industries …

William Hill has transformed a Leeds betting shop into a state-of-the-art digital unit to deliver a new digitised experience for retail punters.  The venue was launched on Saturday with former England goalkeeper Nigel Martyn in attendance alongside Yorkshire and England cricketer Craig White and ex-Leeds Rhinos player Stevie Ward. According to William Hill, the fully digitised betting shop will engage …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has stood by the progress of its ‘multi-agency approach’ that has been applied through its National Strategy to reduce gambling harms launched in 2019.  An update by Rob Burkitt, the Commission’s policy lead on shared regulation, underscored the importance of local authorities’ support of the National Strategy to achieve a shared objective to reduce gambling …

Sky Betting & Gaming (Sky Bet) has been recognised as one of the UK’s ‘best places to work’, having been awarded the Glassdoor ‘Employees Choice Award’. Maintaining its fifth straight year on Glassdoor’s top-50 workplace index – Sky Bet ranked as the UK’s 29th best employer, based on the feedback of current and former employees anonymously rating businesses via Glassdoor’s …

Ladbrokes has launched the live shows of its ‘Amplify’ campaign, bringing live music experiences to football audiences across the UK.  Amplify sees Ladbrokes continue its work with #WeMakeEvents, helping UK live music and entertainment venues return to business following more than a year under lockdown orders.   The first Ladbrokes Amplify show will see Liverpool indie rising stars Red Rum Club …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has handed a £450,000 penalty package to Leeds’s Victoria Gate Casino (VGC Leeds), trading as Global Gaming Ventures, having confirmed extensive duty of customer care failures. An investigation undertaken by the regulator, concerning the casino venue, identified failings in the way it identified and managed customers who were at higher risk of money laundering and gambling-related harm. …

Scientific Games Corporation has expanded instant game production technology by 20% at its UK production facility in Leeds, adding an estimated 175 employees to its workforce there. The Leeds plant is one of five global instant games production centres serving the worldwide lottery industry with products representing 70% of global retail sales. It currently supplies the UK National Lottery and 50 lotteries in …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has awarded Yorkshire and the Humber £800,000 to develop its community-focused gambling harm prevention and support programme.  The region’s funding forms part of the UKGC’s National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms – in which public health directors will develop a customised programme treating problem gambling harms across the eight counties forming Yorkshire and the Humber. …