- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
by NADEEM BADSHAH ADDICTION to gambling games, including Fixed-Odds Betting Terminals, is wrecking Asian families, campaigners have warned. The maximum bet on the terminals will be cut from £100 to £2 from April 2019 after the government bowed to pressure last week. Tracey Crouch quit as sports minister on November 1 in protest at the initial decision to delay cutting the stakes on fixed-odds machines till October, warning the prime minister the failure to act will cost lives. Diwali is a festival where some Hindu and Sikhs in Britain traditionally celebrated by gambling in casinos. Dinesh Bhugra, professor of mental…
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