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• BUSINESS ANALYSIS: William Hill ready to try its luck with the

  - 2005-04-19

  William Hill is gearing up to pay more than pounds 500m for Stanley Leisure's betting shops " a deal that would make it the largest chain in the UK. But with the advent of the internet, which is taking betting in to a high-tech age, accessible from...

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• Upbeat William Hill tight-lipped on Stanley Leisure rumours

  - 2004-02-01

  William Hill, the bookmaker, issued a positive trading statement, but refused to comment on rumours it was preparing to table a bid for Stanley Leisure. The group said profits for the year to 30 December 2003, due to be announced on 4 March, would be "towards the upper end...

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• William Hill tipped as one of two suitors for Stanley Leisure

  - 2003-08-23

  THE MEN in dark glasses were back in action yesterday and busy buying into the bookmaker and casino operator Stanley Leisure, up 14p to 349.5p. They reckon a bid for the group is on the way but not from a much-rumoured management buyout vehicle. The men in dark glasses hear...

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• Utilities slide as Brown heightens windfall tax fears

  - 1996-10-01

  Labour at Blackpool did to the utilities what Frankie Dettori did to the bookies at Ascot over the weekend as Black Saturday turned into Red Monday. Investors took fright over fears, renewed by the Shadow Chancellor, Gordon Brown, that an incoming Labour government would impose a windfall tax on the...

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