Britain’s biggest gambling firms will stop all TV and radio advertising during coronavirus lockdown

Britain’s largest gambling firms will remove all TV and radio advertising for games and products during the coronavirus lockdown, the industry body said today.

Existing TV and radio advertising slots are now due to be replaced by safer gambling messages, donated to charities or removed from broadcast for at least six weeks. 

It comes a week after the Government wrote to gambling firms to ask them for regular updates on how they are tackling problem gambling during the lockdown.