The number of people in Scotland seeking help for problem gambling rose sharply during the pandemic, new analysis shows.

A bill designed to bring stricter regulation of gambling in Northern Ireland has received Royal Assent

The UK Government is failing the most vulnerable by consistently delaying action to reign in Britain's permissive gambling laws

The widow of a man who died after developing a chronic gambling addiction has hit out at Britain's permissive approach to betting adverts.

Betting companies in the UK are to be banned from using top-flight footballers and other sports personalities in their adverts under new plans designed to help problem gamblers.

A senior Conservative politicians has hit out at the "arrogance" of betting companies and called for the introduction of a new Gambling Act "fit for the new digital age".