After an absence of eight years, the rugby league World Cup is back with the 2008 tournament already underway in Australia. The event is not held regularly and is overshadowed by the more popular rugby union world cup in the UK, but in Australia rugby league is still more popular than union.

West Ham United’s Matthew Etherington is losing the battle to curtail his gambling habit according to a Sunday tabloid newspaper report.

Due to recent events, the government has announced it will not be selling off the Tote bookmakers, any time soon. The state-run bookmaker was put up for sale, with Gala Coral and Racecourse Association amongst others showing interest in acquiring the long running horse racing betting service.

ITV has collaborated with lottery operator Camelot to provide a new online channel focused on the latest news from the National Lottery including the draw, winners and clips of projects from all of the UK regions which have benefitted from National Lottery funding.

Microgaming have released four new online casino games this month. They are a blackjack game called Multi Hand Perfect Pairs European Blackjack Gold and three new slots which are called Jonny Specter, Bob’s Bowling Bonanza and Spike’s Nite Out.