Britain's Casino Explosion?
[Moozik: Killing Joke - The Wait]
It would appear I've been living in a cave as I hadn't heard a peep about the granting of casino licenses back home. It starts with a "supercasino" in Manchester and they say no further casinos until 2010. Still, it seems an awful lot of licenses were handed out regardless.
Tessa Jowell today insisted that "Las Vegas is not coming to Great Britain" as Manchester beat rival cities to host Britain's first ever supercasino.The culture secretary promised there would be "no further casinos until proper evaluation over time has been made of the social and economic effects" of gambling. She suggested this would not be before autumn 2010.
In today's announcement, large casino licences were granted to Great Yarmouth, Kingston-upon-Hull, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Newham, Solihull and Southampton.
Smaller casino licences were granted to Bath and North East Somerset, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lindsey, Luton, Scarborough, Swansea, Torbay and Wolverhampton.