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TRUSTED employees at a 209-strong Scottish bingo business with a branch in Fraserburgh are set to bag a full house - as it becomes the country's largest and latest employee-owned firm. Carlton Bingo's Fraserburgh branch has 12 employees and is part of the 10-venue chain that has made the move to employee ownership following a positive rebound after…

The UK government has been promising to overhaul the rules around gambling in this country for years. They launched a review in 2020 and the call for evidence concluded over a year ago. We were promised their plans would be laid out before Christmas, but six months on we are still waiting. The noises in Westminster suggest that plan could be…

The number of Scots seeking help with problem gambling after lockdown has soared as experts voice deepening concerns. Calls to Gamstop, a free service helping people restrict their online gambling, has climbed by 23% on pre-lockdown figures. An estimated 207000 Scots are addicted to gambling or at risk of developing an addiction, with specialists…

In advance of Safer Gambling Week next month, which aims to raise awareness of the dangers of gambling, recent evidence has revealed the scale of addiction across the UK, which soared during lockdown as people dealt with loneliness, isolation and boredom. UK gamblers lost an astonishing £14.36 billion last year, compared with £8.36 billion a decade…