And regulations we have in this country and you will get companies who will bombard you with marketing. coming to your smartphone all the time, impulse buying, and using that technology to actually market advertise what they called the heavy spenders, sometimes called the vips, there can be abuses in terms of that. i think in the uk we get a lot of bad press about gambling but we have to realise when it comes the internet you are only as strong as your weakest link and if there are hundreds of gambling sites out there both legal and illegal not operating under british rules, those companies could be using abusive techniques to draw people in to take every last penny out of the punters. the global anule is penny out of the punters. the global angle is very penny out of the punters. the global angle is very interesting. penny out of the punters. the global angle is very interesting. katie, i angle is very interesting. katie, they are game changers. it seems bizarre we haven t they
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Are so woolly they re not really worth the paper they re written on. i would dispute that, i think that we re making significant changes. the white paper is 250 pages. all bets are off though on when change will happen as the next stage is consultation. the betting industry has broadly welcomed the plans. the rate of problem gambling is low, its 0.2%. what we want to make sure is we are looking after vulnerable people and we think that the white paper, we know the white paper will help us to deliver that. labour and the lib dems criticised the failure to curb gambling advertising in sport. one betting firm said the reforms will cost them £100 million. but as the share prices of the betting companies remaining steady today, campaigners believe the odds were stacked in the industry s favour. katie russell, bbc news. much of england goes to the polls next thursday, to vote in the local elections, and one part of the country where labour is hoping to make gains, is in north warwickshire.
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Gambling firms and also by the industry that says it supports reform to raise standards, but that the vast majority of people gamble responsibly and safely. so what are we expecting? firstly a tax, what is called a compulsory levy that will be put on all gambling firms to pay for treatment and research. at the moment it is voluntary. they will be checks on gamblers to make sure which they are not spending beyond their means. it also reported that they will be a £2 limit on bets on online slots if you are under 25 years old, and an improved system of consumer redress. and although advertising and marketing may be tightened up, they won t be banned. campaigners say the reforms are long overdue, but they remain worried about how gambling has become endemic in our digital culture, particularly when it comes to sport. katie, thank you. katie russell. a man has appeared in court charged with murdering a policewoman in west yorkshire 18 years ago. pc sharon beshinivsky, who was 38,