Resources
Media coverage
- Watch BBC East Midlands Today and see the debate around FOBTs in the region
- FOBTs are becoming a serious problem in Wales
- Top Economist says spending on FOBTs is “destroying jobs”
- Wales This Week, Against the Odds?
- Medway bookmakers sign up to gambling partnership
- Why do we prop up an industry destroying lives across Britain?
- Campaign challenges IEA report on Crack Cocaine of Gambling
- Racing’s ruling body has not sold out to the bookies over FOBTs
- High Stakes Showdown
- ‘CRACK COCAINE’ OF BETTING: CONSULTATION ENDS TODAY
- BOOM IN BOOKIES MAY BE ABOUT TO END WITH THREAT OF JACKPOT CAP ON SLOT MACHINES DESCRIBED AS ‘CRACK COCAINE OF GAMBLING’
- Losers – and winners Lucy Care expresses her feelings about FOBTs through her blog
- Plan for second betting shop meets opposition
- SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Anguish behind lucrative bookies’ high-tech facade as female staff left to fend for themselves
- MP apologises for code breach over Cheltenham trip
- High-stakes bid to halt roulette machines at bookies
- Not since the 1980s have our leaders so cruelly bullied the poor
- I blew my fiancee’s £12,000 on ‘crack cocaine’ gambling machines
- Mail Online: …footballer took £12,000 to feed gambling habit
- Geofutures maps fixed-odds betting terminals
- Gambling crackdown: 4 bookies, 16 bandit machines in just 200 yards in Glasgow’s east end
- Councils try to block spread of betting shops in poor areas
- Tottenham MP endorses new campaign to ‘Stop the FOBTs’
- Coinslot International: Seaside resort is not amused at spend on betting
- Daily Mirror: London’s blight lights
- Daily Star: I blew my £845 a month benefits on roulette machines
- Watch Campaign founder Derek Webb on BBC’s Politics Show
- Guardian: Betting terminals ‘being used to make huge profits from vulnerable people‘
- Guardian: Campaigners’ warning over ‘crack cocaine of gambling’
- Politics Home: “Labour: “These figures provide further evidence that Fixed Odds Betting Terminals…
- Mail online: Warning over ‘crack cocaine of gambling’
- Guardian online: High stakes gambling machines suck money out of poorest communities
- Guardian Datablog: £5bn gambled in Britain’s poorest communities
- Keighley News: £34.6 million spent on gambling machines in Keighley
- The Scotsman: London stalls for more than a year over Scotland’s gambling ‘problem’
- Telegraph and Argus: MPs’ shock as gamblers put £400m a year in high stakes slot machines
- Coinslot: Campaign backs research but urges a responsible sample
- Coinslot: Committee fights fire with fire over FOBTs
- Betfair: Fixed Odds Betting Terminals under attack again
- Daily Telegraph: MPs in attack on campaign against betting shop machines
- Express.co.uk: Hooked on slots
- Panorama: Gambling Nation
- BBC Radio One: Newsbeat (8min 15 in)
- BBC Radio West Midlands Breakfast Show: Pete Morgan interviews campaign consultant Matt Zarb-Cousin (2hr 17 mins in)
- BBC Radio Nottingham Breakfast Show: Mark Dennison interviews campaign consultant Matt Zarb-Cousin(30 mins in)
- Northants Evening Telegraph: Calling Corby by-elections candidates to action
- Daily Mail: High stakes machines lead to violence
- Community: We’re bookies not bouncers
- Public Sector Executive: LAs facing “Orwellian Doublespeak”
- The House: Which side is your party on?
- Euroslot magazine: All change?
- Daily Mail: Tough new curbs on high-stake gambling machines
- La Vanguardia: The luck of the casino neighbourhoods
- Our challenge to the ABB in Coinslot magazine
- Campaign quoted in Lancashire Telegraph
- Coinslot International: War of Words on Category B machines
- Intergame: FOBT stakes reduction plans welcomed
- Public Sector Executive: Why Local Authorities should take a stronger stance on betting shops
- Coinslot International: “Adding more B2s would make a mockery of the law“
- Intergame exclusive: Concern over FOBT roulette content
- Totally Gaming – DCMS Select Committee report: The Summary
- New Statesman: Roulette in Betting Shops – It’s all political spin
- Modern Government Interview – Place your bets
- Gambling Insider - Far from Fair
- Britain’s High Street Gamble: Dispatches Channel 4
Media releases
- Stop the FOBTs officiall launches at Westminster
- Campaign calls for Gambling Commission to act on of FOBTs
- £5bn gambled on Britain’s High Streets – What’s happening in your area?
- Campaign challenges motives of the Daily Telegraph
- Machine gaming manager joins the Campaign for Fairer Gambling
- Campaign for Fairer Gambling calls for tighter policing of Gambling Act
- Dispatches: Our view
- Matt Zarb-Cousin joins the Campaign for Fairer Gambling
- Our response to the gambling enquiry
Research and statistics
- Geofutures research into high street gambling
- Gambling Commission Industry Statistics 2008-2011
- British Gambling Prevalence Survey (BGPS) 2010
- Gaming Report on Gambling in Ireland 2008
- The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) – The Casino Scoping Study 2007
- Association of British Bookmakers (ABB) research 2006
Campaign correspondence
- Letter to the Editor: Daily Telegraph
- Our dialogue with the Gambling Commission
- Letter to Local Authority Licensing Officers
- Letter to the DCMS Gambling Enquiry Select Committee
- Letter to the Gambling Commission
- Evidence that FOBTs are a major cause of problem gambling
References
- The DCMS Select Committee Gambling Enquiry 2012 report
- Recent premises reminders issued by the Gambling Commission
- DCLG Planning Consultation submission
- Our evidence presented to the gambling enquiry
- Gambling Act 2005 – The Principles
- Public Sector Executive News