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Paradise lost: the latest news from the DCMS is in regarding the contents of the new Gaming Act--which will be good for some, but not what the majority of the coin-op industry was waiting for. ab:UK's columnist David Snook looks at the current state of play.(Snookered)

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| September 01, 2003 | Snook, David | COPYRIGHT 2004 Intergame. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SO we've been brought down to earth with something of a bump. There we all were, in Fantasyland, imagining the joys of 400 casinos add (relatively) unfettered gaming. And along came the Government with the metaphorical shiv between the shoulder blades.

Not quite as dramatic as that, but there will certainly be more than a few seen to be sucking lemons as a result of the "clarification" of the Government's current thinking on casinos under new legislation. Now, someone told me with forefinger tapping knowledgeably alongside nostril, that Minister Richard Caborn had been out to New South Wales and had been visibly shaken by the degree to which pokies have dominated …

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