UK gambling firms make extra £1bn from punters amid calls for tax rises pred 16 urami in 9 minutami Betting companies made £12.6bn in 12 months to March, with 15% rise in takings from online casino playersThe UK gambling sector made an extra £1bn from punters in the year to March, according to new data expected to buoy calls for the chancellor to raise betting taxes in Wednesday’s budget.Betting companies made £12.6bn from services excluding lotteries in the latest 12-month reporting period, the Gambling Commission revealed on Tuesday, a 9.3% rise on the £11.5bn the industry made during the previous year. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Mark Kelly: call for troops to disobey illegal orders is ‘non-controversial’ pred 16 urami in 42 minutami Senator hits back at Trump administration after Pentagon launches investigation for possible breaches of military lawUS senator Mark Kelly said it was “non-controversial” for him and other Democrats to implore military personnel to disobey “illegal orders” from the Trump administration – hitting back at accusations of “serious allegations of misconduct” leveled against him by the Pentagon.“I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial – and that was that members of the military should follow the law,” the Arizona Democrat senator, a former US Navy officer and astronaut who flew on four separate space shuttle missions between 2001 and 2011, told MS Now on Monday night. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
