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Police in Australia are searching for a British woman who went missing when she was due to fly home.
Law graduate Frances Embleton, 24, disappeared after apparently blowing all her money in a casino, it has been reported.
Ms Embleton, who was on a working holiday, has been missing for a week, according to the Foreign Office.
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A young British tourist who has gone missing in Australia may have gambled away her savings at a Sydney casino in an attempt to pay for her flight home, police believe.
Frances Mary Embleton, a 24-year-old law graduate, was due to fly home to the United Kingdom last Monday - the day her 12-month working visa expired.
But she failed to turn up to her own farewell party last weekend and police have launched a missing persons inquiry.
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The Irish Football Association is to launch an inquiry into allegations that an Irish League game was fixed as part of a betting scam.
The investigation concerns Glenavon’s 4-0 win over Armagh City last Saturday - both clubs refute the allegations.
The IFA may interview players as part of its investigation.
"Too much information has come to me already that suggests that we can’t let it slip," IFA chief executive Howard Wells told the BBC.
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A father has claimed a hospital "played Russian roulette" with the life of his son who died only six weeks after being diagnosed with leukaemia.
Fionn Hanan, 48, from Hampshire, said a "catalogue of errors" were made while Aaron underwent chemotherapy.
The Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth has been heavily criticised in a report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has since apologised to the family.
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Two Irish League soccer teams have refuted allegations that a match was fixed as part of a betting scam.
The Irish Football Association said it had no grounds at this stage to hold an inquiry into claims over Glenavon’s 4-0 win over Armagh City last Saturday.
Some bookmakers had raised concerns about unusual betting patterns.
Bookmaker Adrian Eastwood said "a number of punters who wouldn’t be well known to us came in wanting to place large bets on the match".
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Police on Wearside are hunting two men, one armed with a baseball bat, who robbed a bookmakers.
A male member of staff at William Hill, The Green, Sunderland, was putting out rubbish on Monday morning when he was confronted by two men.
He was threatened and the pair then left with an undisclosed amount of cash leaving him shocked but unhurt.
They are described as of thin build and in their 20s. Police are asking anyone with any information to contact them.
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Casinos and gambling websites could be allowed to advertise on television and radio under a relaxation of rules.
The new gambling code drafted by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and the Gambling Commission will go out to public consultation this summer.
The code will clarify a provision of the Gambling Act 2005 - to be introduced next year - allowing for advertising rules to be relaxed.
The government says the new rules will be subject to "very tight controls".
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Casino owners, high-flying businesswomen and retail entrepreneurs have helped to boost the combined wealth of the super-rich.
Half of the new entries in this year’s The Sunday Times Rich List with fortunes of half a billion or more owe their wealth to internet gambling or casinos.
As the wealth of Britain’s 1,000 richest people has tripled since Labour came to power in 1997, up to £301 billion from £99 billion, a surge in betting has added to a 20 per cent increase in the overall wealth of the rich list in the past year.
One of the most prominent newcomers to the list is Ruth Parasol, 39, a former sex chatline owner from California who owns 31.4 per cent of the online poker site PartyGaming with her husband, Russell De Leon, 40. Thanks to a fortune of £2.016 billion, they are now ranked 17th in the rich list.
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Casinos may be allowed to advertise on television under new rules being considered by consumer watchdogs.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and the Gambling Commission are drafting the new gambling code, which will go out to public consultation in the summer.
Under the Gambling Act 2005, due to come fully into force by September next year, provisions have been made to allow limited advertising by casinos. Internet gaming sites, bingo halls, betting services, gaming machines and football pools will also fall under the remit of the new rules.
Although details of the advertising proposals have yet to be determined, the Gambling Commission confirmed that the code would provide a single, co-ordinated set of advertising rules for all sectors of the gambling industry.
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Online betting companies are now a major source of revenue for Alderney.
Six more licences were awarded to companies, attracted by low taxes, to operate in the Channel Island in the past year.
Last year gambling industry profits topped £700,000, all of which goes straight to the States.
The six new licences awarded last year brings the total number of internet gambling companies based in the island to 18, with more in the pipeline.
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