Spin doctors: gambling firms adopt hard tactics to flood towns with 24hr slot machines

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It is almost 2am in Peterborough and a handful of punters are wordlessly feeding their money into the machines at Merkur Slots.

A fragment of a song, the lyric “nothing to lose”, drifts through the shop as their funds rapidly evaporate. Closing time is fast approaching, but that does not mean the end of the gambling.

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