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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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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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The driving test should have compulsory questions on level crossings to cut the number of drivers who take risks on them each year, Network Rail has said.
It said there were 14 crashes and 13 deaths in 2009 and 140 near misses between vehicles and trains.
The rail operator recorded 3,200 incidents of misuse, but said the actual figure was likely to be higher.
Network Rail said questions in the test would help drivers start out with good habits on negotiating level crossings.
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With just weeks to go until a controversial new law on casinos takes effect in Georgia, health workers in the capital, Tbilisi, say they have uncovered a worrying link between gambling and drug addiction. Tom Esslemont reports.
It’s the middle of the afternoon and Tbilisi’s busiest casino, the Ajara, is already packed with gamblers.
It is full of grizzled chain-smoking men. They sit hunched at tables under gaudy crystal chandeliers chatting over the din of lounge music and the constant whirl of roulette wheels.
Managers at the Ajara say they receive 1,100 clients every day.
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Another story from the BBC:
A woman whose operation was cancelled three times in three days has accused a Portsmouth hospital of playing "Russian roulette" with her life.
Yvonne Rogers, 59, of Southsea, had acute pancreatitis and was due to have her gall bladder removed at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham in May.
The surgery has not been rescheduled and Miss Rogers has now complained.
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust said it was reviewing the case "as a matter of urgency".
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