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A Surrey nightclub’s plan to install fruit machines with a bumper jackpot has been thwarted by a local authority.

Casino Nightclub wanted to introduce gaming machines which could pay out a top prize of £500.

But Guildford Borough Council said it was concerned about the potentially damaging effect of gambling on vulnerable adults.

Harper’s Leisure International Ltd, which runs the nightclub in Onslow Street, says it will appeal.

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An armed gang has stolen more than £30,000 from a Birmingham casino.

A man, armed with a hammer, forced staff at the Rainbow Casino in Edgbaston to hand over the money, West Midlands Police said

No one was injured in the robbery, which happened on Tuesday afternoon the spokesman added.

Police want to hear from anyone who saw a blue BMW 5 series with three men inside, which may have been parked in the Clarendon Road area at the time.

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The roulette wheel has stopped spinning and there is no more blackjack at Frank Sinatra’s former casino.

Plunging numbers of gamblers mean operations have been halted at the Cal Neva Lodge, one of Nevada’s most fashionable casinos in the early 1960s.

The venue was once popular with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr, before the rise of the Las Vegas Strip.

Its owner hopes to reopen, but analysts fear the landmark attraction has seen the last throw of the dice.

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Masked men have stormed a packed casino near the Swiss border city of Basel, making off with hundreds of thousands of francs (dollars), prosecutors say.

About 10 raiders pulled up at the Grand Casino in two cars just after 0400 (0200 GMT) and smashed their way in, brandishing machine-guns and pistols.

The French-speaking gang ordered the 600 guests and employees to the floor while they emptied registers.

The Grand Casino describes itself as the "Swiss Las Vegas" on its website.

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Two IT contractors have admitted using their insider knowledge to cheat casinos out of thousands of pounds by printing false winning betting slips.

The pair stole more than £33,000 by infiltrating software controlling remote betting machines which covered roulette wheels at four London casinos.

Andrew Owen Ashley, 30, Nimesh Bhagat, 31, both from London, admitted theft between July and September 2007.

They received 12 month suspended prison sentences at Croydon Crown Court.

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BBC News, Moscow

Illegal gambling has spread rapidly across Russia since a new law came into force last July banning casinos and slots machines in towns and cities, according to a senior police officer in an exclusive interview with the BBC.

Col Oleg Bolderov of the economic crimes department of the Russian police said they had carried out thousands of raids over the past eight months.

"We have closed down 70 casinos and 4,000 slot-machine arcades… and have brought 600 criminal cases against those trying to organise this (illegal gambling)," he said.

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A gang who plotted the murder of a businessman at an Edinburgh casino have been jailed for a total of 43 years.

Tony Demarco, 63, was shot outside the Maybury Casino on 3 June 2008. Four men were convicted of conspiracy to murder and attempted murder.

Imran Sakur, 35, who hatched the plot, and Jamie Robertson, 25, who pulled the trigger, were both jailed for 11 years.

"Fixer" Craig Kelbie, 35, was jailed for 11 years and getaway driver Francis McGlone, 39, was given a 10-year term.

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Four men have been convicted of plotting to kill a businessman who was shot in the head as he left a casino.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Tony Demarco, 63, still had a bullet lodged in his cheek and was lucky to alive after the attack in June 2008.

Imran Sakur, 35, Jamie Robertson, 25, Craig Kelbie, 35, and Francis McGlone, 39, were all found guilty of conspiracy to murder and attempted murder.

They are due to be sentenced on 9 February.

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