Name: Gambling campaigners criticise regulator over maximum stake size
Uploaded: 2018-03-19T20:28:17+00:00
Duration: 2 min 48 s
Description: They're the machines dubbed "the crack cocaine of gambling": fixed odds betting terminals, where you can put down a stake of £100 every 20 seconds. Campaigners wanted this slashed to just £2. But the figure that the industry regulator went for today was way off that.

They’re the machines dubbed “the crack cocaine of gambling”: fixed odds betting terminals, where you can put down a stake of £100 every 20 seconds. Campaigners wanted this slashed to just £2. But the figure that the industry regulator went for today was way off that.