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William Hill recorded a substantial backing for Leicester West MP Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Kendall to become the Labour Party’s next leader. Early UK betting markets on the Labour leadership, had not marked Kendall as a main contender for leadership, with bookmakers pointing to a three horserace between Chuka Umunna, Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper. Yesterday William Hill announced that Kendall’s had …

Gambling charity the Responsible Gambling Trust has confirmed the appointment of William Hill Chief Executive James Henderson as its Trustee. James will take the place of former Ladbrokes Chief Executive Richard Glynn on the Board of Trustees. The appointment means the Responsible Gambling Trust will maintain a balance between industry and independent Trustees on its Board, and will continue to benefit from …

William Hill is set to ramp up its innovation projects and in-house development competencies as the operator looks to reinvigorate the sports betting and igaming markets. Speaking to advertising news source TheDrum at the Shoreditch Digital Festival, Crispin Nieboer William Hill’s Director of Corporate Development and Innovation detailed that the operator would look to launch up to 10 new innovations …

The betting market’s reputation as the best political outcome poll/indicator has taken a bit of a beating,  with the Conservative Party winning a slight majority after yesterday’s General Election. Throughout the build up to the 7 May General Election, political betting markets had favoured a Hung Parliament which would be led by a Labour Minority. Bookmakers William Hill, Coral and …

William Hill Innovation Directors Crispin Nieboer and Jamie Hart will be displaying the operators latest innovation mechanisms at the Digital Shoreditch Festival (London – May 11 -24). The operator who runs an innovation lab in Shoreditch London, will be showcasing its prototype for its “Get in The Race” app for Google Cardboard. The app which has been created in partnership …

Licensing expert David Clifton, of consultants Clifton Davies, has analysed what the political parties have to say about the betting shop’s main breadwinner and doesn’t like what he sees. Fixed Odds Betting Terminals have rarely been out of the news since they were first introduced into Britain’s betting shops. That is now thirteen years ago. Just a year after that, …

William Hill Australia will allow its customers to by-pass country restrictions on in-play betting by releasing its  ‘Click to Call’ feature for Australian sports betting customers. The feature will allow customers to connect to live betting markets by activating their computer microphones with the operators live markets team. Current Australian online gambling laws prohibit licensed operators from offering in-play (live) sports …

Reporting on its opening 2015 quarter (period ending 1 April), William Hill recorded a 19% decline in operating profits of £16 million on 2014 performance, as the operator was impacted by increased tax charges and a set of unfriendly football results. In its trading update William Hill governance noted that the new POC tax charge combined with the additional tax …

With the majority of British bookmakers focusing their general content and commentary on the upcoming UK General Election on 7 May. It appears that the bookmaking industry has forgotten the question on all the British public’s mind – “Will it be a hot and sunny British Summer”! Brave bookmaker William Hill seems to think so, as the bookmaker anticipates a …

UK Bookmakers have placed Manchester indie rock band The Stone Roses as favourites to headline Glastonbury 2015’s Sunday night session. Glastonbury organisers are yet to confirm which act will play the festival’s closing night set on the legendary Pyramid Stage. The Stone Roses had begun last week as 12/1 outsiders to claim the closing Sunday spot, however William Hill alerted …