Betting firms snaring women into gambling with a deluge of adverts on daytime TV, campaigners warn
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MPs and campaigners warn women are being drawn into gambling addiction by a deluge of adverts on daytime TV. Foxy Bingo boasted to its investors that its customers’ losses had jumped 50 per cent in the first six months of this year compared to last year.
Foxy Bingo boasted to investors that its customers’ losses had jumped 50% in the first six months of this year compared to last year. Figures helped parent company Entain, which owns Ladbrokes and Coral, to quadruple its profits to £91m. MPs and campaigners claim bookmakers are using ‘predatory” adverts to entice stay-at-home mothers, part-time workers and the unemployed to gamble. Ministers are considering tighter rules on advertising on TV and social media as part of the review into the 2005 Gambling Act.
