Eight people have been arrested after the Metropolitan Police descended on Green Lanes in Haringey on Friday the 23rd of October, in an operation aimed at businesses that were suspected of running illegal gambling from their premises. The Met carried out the sweep alongside the National Crime Agency and Immigration Enforcement, with the eight people […]
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If you fancy a proper live poker festival on your doorstep, 888poker LIVE rolls into the capital from the eighth through to the 18th of October. It is being billed as the season-ending stop of the operator’s 2026 European Tour, after earlier festivals took place in Madrid, Glasgow and Barcelona. The venue, as ever for
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The long-running row over a proposed 24-hour gambling arcade opposite Earl’s Court tube station flared up again this week, with the human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger addressing a fresh gathering of residents at St Cuthbert’s Church on the 17th of September. The meeting happened at the same time as Silvertime Amusements Limited’s appeal against Kensington
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The Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square has started broadcasting its own tables to gamblers around the world, after striking a partnership with the gambling technology giant Playtech to launch a live-streamed offering called ‘Live from London’. Whilst live casino games beamed out from a studio are nothing new, what marks this one out is that
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Peckham’s Wetherspoons on the high street, The Kentish Drovers, has been up for sale for well over a year and it now looks as though its next life might have nothing to do with pints at all. A planning application was lodged with Southwark Council, proposing turning the ground floor and basement into a bingo
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The Grade I listed building at 30 Curzon Street that used to house Crockfords, arguably the most storied name in London casino history, is on course for a somewhat different second life. A group trading as ‘Alter Ego’ is reportedly seeking around £20 million to fund the conversion of the site into a private members’
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Bongo’s Bingo has announced its biggest Halloween run yet, with a record 47 venues across the country hosting a Halloween Special edition of the show throughout October, with London getting several dates of its own across three different venues. The Halloween Special keeps the format that has made Bongo’s Bingo a fixture of stag do’s,
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Mecca Bingo has pulled its application to keep its Dagenham venue open day and night, every day of the week, just days after Barking and Dagenham Council opened a public consultation on toughening its approach to gambling. Whilst the two events have not been formally linked by either party, the timing is difficult to ignore.
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East London’s answer to a bingo hall, Dabbers Social in Houndsditch, has crowned its latest Comedy Caller champion and this year’s edition threw up a first in the competition’s six-year history. The grand final was an all-character one, with all four hopefuls performing entirely through invented alter-egos rather than as themselves. It made for a
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