Gordon Brown potentially faces a legal battle with Manchester over the plans to scrap the supercasino build. Manchester and Blackpool are currently poised to open a Las Vegas style super gambling resorts, if this plan does not get the final go ahead the local authorities are planning to recover the £250 million already invested into the scheme. As well as improving the local infrastructure the plan would have brought 3000 new jobs to the area and help regenerate the deprived east side of Manchester.
Large casinos are still planned and expected to get the go ahead for Leeds, Hull, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Solihull, Southampton and East London to name a few, each of these will have upto 150 bandits with jackpots of upto £4000. Smaller casinos are still going ahead in Skegness, Bath, Luton, Swansea, Torbay, Wolverhampton and Scarborough.