The earliest image of one of the most romantic lost buildings of England, a fairytale castle bristling with towers and spires built by Henry VIII, then demolished after 130 years to settle the gambling debts of a royal mistress, has been acquired by the V&A museum for £1m. The palace in the watercolour, painted by…
A bill to promote the establishment of “integrated resorts” featuring casinos in Japan and championed by its backers as a “trigger for regional promotion” is set to pass the current Diet session. However, there are strong worries in Japan’s psychiatric community that legalizing casinos will also result in more gambling addicts. The bill…
Donna Smith took £90,000 from her employer’s accounts over two years A court heard she later witnessed the 2015 terror attack and suffered PTSD She was spared jail on a suspended sentence after judge heard of her plight By Richard Spillett, Crime Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 03:39 +11:00, 7 December 2016 | Updated: 07:00 +11:00,…
After discovering Smith was paying money into her own and her husband’s accounts Miss Standing contacted the defendant for an explanation and Miss Smith responded by text, apologising and admitting the theft. In subsequent messages she said she did not want to leave her kids, but that she would go to the police station. She…
Gamblers lost £13.6 billion through betting between April 2015 and March 2016, according to a Gambling Commission report, up nearly 21 per cent from the previous period. Remote gambling using a phone or computer to bet or play bingo and casino games online is now the largest sector in the industry, accounting for almost £4.5…
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–(NASDAQ: HBNC) Horizon Bancorp (the Company or Horizon) announced a series of balance sheet restructuring transactions that are expected to improve its overall financial position, including an increase in net interest margin, return on average assets, and return on average equity. The transactions include prepaying $106 million of high fixed-rate borrowings with…
BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Regulatory News: Approval of the revised financial restructuring plan by creditors SoLocal Group (Paris:LOCAL) announces that more than two-thirds of the creditors have approved today its revised financial restructuring plan. The plan will now be submitted to the vote of shareholders at the Extraordinary General Shareholders Meeting on 15 December 2016, which will…
Federal judges have consolidated dozens of lawsuits alleging the blockbuster antipsychotic drug Abilify (aripiprazole) caused compulsive gambling, sex addiction and other disorders. U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers will preside over about 43 compulsive-behavior lawsuits in multi-district litigation in the Pensacola-based Northern District of Florida. Plaintiffs allege the drugs makers, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals,…
A former manager at an Aberdeen bar has narrowly avoided jail after embezzling more than £27,000 from his employers to feed his gambling addiction. Over the course of a year, former police officer Conor Summersgill carried out hundreds of unauthorised transactions at Paramount in Aberdeen before pocketing the cash. He was only caught out after…
A former police officer turned bar manager has narrowly avoided jail after embezzling more than £27,000 to feed his gambling addiction. Conor Summersgill pocketed the cash from Paramount by carrying out hundreds of fake refunds over the course of a year. He was only caught out after another member of staff noticed he had refunded…