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Fairer Gambling Hits out at Association of British Bookmakers
April 11, 2014
The Campaign for Fairer Gambling has again voiced its criticism of a report by the Association of British Bookmakers that claimed deprived areas in the UK have the lowest number of betting shops. The group accused the ABB of attempted to “mislead” the public by publishing a report carried out by the Local Data Company in which it suggested that betting shops do not target deprived areas. Last month, the Campaign carried out its own research in which it claimed that even when controlling for population density, there are more than twice the number of betting shops in the poorest…