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Betting company to shut 700 gambling shops, putting 4,500 jobs at risk

William Hill plans to cut about a third of its betting shops and jobs in Britain after the government slashed the maximum stake permitted on fixed-odds terminals, dubbed the "crack cocaine" of gambling by their critics.

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