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Monday August 21 2017 | thetimes.co.uk | No 72307
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Spain police pursue link to Brussels bombings Spurs’ Wembley misery
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Fiona Hamilton, Graham Keeley Barcelona
Gone with the wind Yachts set sail from Liverpool yesterday at the start of the Clipper Round the World race, which will cover 40,000 nautical miles over 11 months
Children exposed to huge rise in gambling adverts Industry’s £1.4bn spending spree provokes call for curbs Andrew Ellson Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Children are being bombarded with a record number of gambling adverts as betting websites embark on an unprecedented spending spree to attract customers. Figures show that the industry has spent £1.4 billion on advertising since 2012, with online casinos doubling their marketing budgets over the past five years. Britain’s biggest charity to help addicts is so concerned about the increasing volume of advertising
that it is urging ministers to introduce stricter rules. Writing today in The Times, Kate Lampard, the chairwoman of GambleAware, says: “With the average age at which children start to watch post-watershed TV unsupervised being 11¾, restrictions based on a 9pm watershed may offer little protection. “We need to balance the array of [commercial gambling] advertising with information about the risks of gambling, and where to get help if it becomes a problem.” Bookmakers are allowed at present to advertise on television after 9pm
and before that during live sporting events, such as matches in the Premier League, meaning that young football fans have grown accustomed to seeing celebrities encouraging them to bet. Almost half of Premier League clubs are also now sponsored by betting companies. In total the gambling industry spent £312 million on advertising last year, a 63 per cent increase on 2012, according to the figures from the market research company Nielsen. The amount spent on television advertising jumped by 43 per cent to £150 million but the biggest increase
has been in online and other advertising. These have risen by 87 per cent to £160 million as companies such as Google and Twitter reap a huge dividend from the growth in the number of internet bookmakers. Last year an investigation by The Times found that children who followed popular football accounts on Twitter frequently had special offers posted to their timelines to suggest that they could make easy money from gambling. The Nielsen figures show that the advertising spend by online casinos Continued on page 2, col 3
The imam suspected of masterminding the Barcelona terrorist attacks often travelled to Belgium and was in the country in the three months before the Brussels bombings last year. Police are investigating whether Abdelbaki Es Satty, who is thought to have radicalised the younger members of the cell that attacked Las Ramblas and Cambrils, was involved in the Islamic State assaults on Brussels airport and a Metro station that killed 32 people on March 22, 2016. The discovery raises the possibility of a connection between the Spanish terrorist cell and the jihadists who carried out the Brussels attacks, and who were also behind the November 2015 atrocities in Paris. It emerged that the Audi A3 used in the Cambrils attack was caught speeding in Paris a week ago. Intelligence services are examining whether the Spanish attacks, in which 14 people died on Thursday, were ordered and directed by Isis. Es Satty, 40, who was also linked to Islamist recruiters and the cell behind the 2004 Madrid bombings, is believed to have died with two other terrorists while he prepared explosives in a bomb factory in Alcanar, 125 miles from Barcelona, before the attacks. He is thought to have indoctrinated younger terrorists while preaching in their home town of Ripoll, near the French border. Local people told The Times that the group had made a series of “suspicious” trips to France before the attacks; other trips to Switzerland are also being examined. Police said yesterday that Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan and the only member of the network still at large, may have fled over the border into France. He is suspected of mowing down pedestrians in Las Ramblas, killing 13 and injuring 120. Five other terrorists were shot dead hours later as they drove a van into pedestrians at Cambrils, killing a Spanish woman. It was confirmed yesterday that Julian Cadman, seven, who had British-Australian nationality, died at Las Ramblas. Terror in Spain, pages 6-9 Letters, page 28
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Britain could retain access to the single market without answering to the EU’s court under plans that have been put forward by one of Europe’s leading judges. Page 4
The “funding challenge” that Britain’s armed forces faces is close to £30 billion and troops may need to be cut to balance the books, a defence expert has said. Page 12
The cost of work absenteeism caused by arthritis will reach £3.43 billion a year by 2030, a study says. The condition affects more than ten million people in Britain. Page 19
Gary Cohn, the White House chief economic adviser, has been urged by friends to quit in protest at Donald Trump’s response to the racial clashes in Virginia. Page 30
The technology investor IVP is poised to buy a stake in Transferwise in a deal likely to value the British-based currency exchange at more than £1 billion. Page 37
The Newcastle Falcons fly half Toby Flood will look to relaunch his international career with Germany if the door to an England comeback is closed. Page 64