sunday opening

A DECISION earlier this week to give Royal Assent to laws allowing bookies and bingo halls to open on Sundays in Northern Ireland marks a complete transformation of social change over the last 40 years.

BOOKIES shops and bingo halls can legally open for the first time in Northern Ireland from this Sunday. The move surprised bookmakers who weren't expecting changes until this autumn at the earliest. It's the first major alteration to betting laws since 1985,...

There was no sign this Easter of a rising in Northern Ireland’s licensed trade.

A FAMILY-run supermarket in Downpatrick is thought to be the first in Northern Ireland forced to amend its weekend opening hours as part of a major crackdown by the 11 new super councils on Sunday trading.

THE body which represents bookmakers in the north claims the authorities still aren't doing enough to stamp out illegal gambling.