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A group of Lancashire MPs are to meet Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell over the decision to award a super-casino to Manchester rather than Blackpool.
The Casino Advisory Panel made its recommendation on Tuesday, ending months of speculation over the site.
Lancaster and Wyre MP Ben Wallace has said he and other MPs from the Fylde coast area will meet her before the final vote goes before parliament.
Mr Wallace has said it is a "slap in the face" for Blackpool.
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A Wigtownshire charity has raised fears of increased debt, domestic abuse and prostitution in Stranraer as a result of casino plans for the town.
It comes after it was chosen as one of the eight UK locations earmarked to be licensed to operate a small casino.
Wigtownshire Women’s Aid co-ordinator Hazel Madden said she feared it would cause more referrals to her group.
Dumfries and Galloway MP Russell Brown said he believed that internet gambling presented a greater danger.
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Blackpool should be given government aid to revive its fortunes after its super-casino disappointment, according to the Bishop of Blackburn.
The Rt Rev Nicholas Reade said jobs linked to the development would have gone a long way to alleviate some of the poverty in the resort.
East Manchester was named as the home of the UK’s first super-casino.
The Rt Rev Reade said: "This decision seems to me to be a great missed opportunity."
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As plans for a new generation of casinos across the UK are unveiled, a mother describes how a gambling addiction ruined her son’s life.
Sarah had no idea what lay ahead for her son when she discovered he was visiting arcades during his school lunch breaks.
"I was concerned, but I didn’t realise at the time that it was going to be an addiction. I thought it was boys being boys," she said.
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Will the first UK super-casino in Manchester provide a bonanza for the street gangs blamed for shootings in the city in recent years?
Opponents of the casino, part of a £265m SportCity leisure development in Beswick, fear there will be an increase in muggings around the site and say it could inspire gangs to move into prostitution, money laundering and extortion.
The fears have been rejected by police and commentators, while the consortium behind the bid say it will regenerate one of the most deprived areas of the country.
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If anyone needed a lesson in the downside of gambling, then the betting over who would get Britain’s first super-casino was probably it.
But it wasn’t just the professionals, who made Blackpool and the Dome at Greenwich the favourites, who were caught out.
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