£226k is gambled EVERY DAY on betting machines in Hartlepool and £2.9m is …

Published March 9, 2014

£226k is gambled EVERY DAY on betting machines in Hartlepool and £2.9m is …
BY the time you read this sentence punters in Hartlepool will have spent £50 on betting machines which have been dubbed the crack cocaine of gambling. Today, we reveal the shocking scourge which is hitting the town where on average £5 a second is being … Read more on Hartlepool Mail

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Worst of all are fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs), which have sprung up across the country offering high-speed, high-stakes gambling so addictive to the inveterate punter that they have been dubbed “the crack cocaine of the high street”. A study to … Read more on Telegraph.co.uk