The sponsors of this years World Championship Snooker tournament Bet Fred are to donate £147,000 to Sports Relief following the maximum 147 break achieved by Stephen Hendry in his match on Tuesday at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, the last prior recorded professional 147 break belonged to Ding Junhui in the Maplin UK Championship in [...]

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Customers at Betfred stores are now able to watch  live horse racing from virtually every racecourse in Britain after the bookmaker signed an agreement with Turf TV for coverage to be broadcast in all of the companies 800 shops. The deal includes courses such as Newmarket, Aintree Newbury and Cheltenham. The deal will initially see [...]

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The Gibraltar based online and store fronted company Betfred have confirmed that they will be the main sponsors for the World Snooker Championship for the next four years. The tournament will be now be known as Betfred.com World Snooker Championship. The new deal has arrived just in time for this year’s televised event which starts [...]

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The UK based bookmaker Ladbrokes has launched an advertising campaign started from 21st March aimed at encouraging punters to only place bets with UK licensed bookmakers, the campaign will appear in the Racing Post. A PR spokesman for Ladbrokes said “Very few advertisers in the Racing Post are paying tax or levy in the UK [...]

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The UK based sports bookmaker Betfred owned by the Done brothers has published its plans for the expansion for their chain of betting shops that would result in the company opening its 800th store during the spring of 2009 creating 350 jobs in the process and this could grow to 1,000 stores in the following [...]

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The UK based sports betting company Betfred has disposed of its online casino operations following several years of underperforming due to its belated entry into the online gaming market.  The sale took place in 2008 but has only just been revealed by the recently filed companies accounts of Betfreds holding company Lightcatch Ltd. The company’s [...]

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Ladbrokes Live Horse Racing agreement has been signed with Turf TV this week in a deal worth £70 Million over 5 years. This equates to a deal worth £6,500 per shop and this was a deal which just had to happen. Ladbrokes just could not do without Live TV pictures from 31 racecourses including such [...]

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Turf TV which provides TV pictures to the Retail bookmakers in the UK has not had its introduction all plain sailing having targeted over half the UK courses and having secured the TV rights to these course but the online bookies have not taken this move sitting down and the latest in the saga is [...]

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About 1,000 gambling websites based overseas are to be banned from advertising in the UK. Popular sites such as Littlewoodscasino, Betfred Casino and Interpoker.com are among those subject to the ban, which comes into force in September 2007. Broadcasters and publishers breaching the rules could face fines or prison. The aim for this change in [...]

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