and more riots in the coming days. sofia, thank you very much indeed. she was in lille, we were in toulouse last hour, will continue with our coverage in france. sarah has the other headlines this morning. nhs england is nearly doubling its number of gambling addiction clinics, after referrals hit a record high. seven new facilities will open this summer, amid warnings that children and adults are being bombarded with gambling adverts. our correspondent joe inwood reports. gambling has never been easier. every smartphone can become a virtual casino. that ease of access has coincided with a huge rise in the number of people struggling with addiction. people like luke ashton. last week, a coroner ruled his online losses contributed to his decision to take his own life. after his death, his wife ellie got access to his accounts.
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when we think about keeping up with ever changing technology? in the uk, we do have marketing guidance. you ve got the advertising standards agency, which will adjudicate marketing adverts and all the rest of it, and there are rules as to what kind of products can be broadcast at what times. but that is not the same around the world. and what we re starting to see is in the emerging economies where perhaps people were not used to tv sets and traditional kind of forms of marketing, it s pivoted to influencers, to ambassadors, to role models who can kind of tweet alongside, you know, bets and things like that. so we need to find a way of developing laws and regulations that allow us to stay current with technology. in the uk, gambling adverts are increasingly prevalent on daytime tv, where more women are watching than men, which means advertisers
is it good enough, particularly when we think about keeping up with ever changing technology? in the uk, we do have marketing guidance. you ve got the advertising standards agency, which will adjudicate marketing adverts and all the rest of it, and there are rules as to what kind of products can be broadcast at what times. but that is not the same around the world. and what we re starting to see is in the emerging economies where perhaps people were not used to tv sets and traditional kind of forms of marketing, it s pivoted to influencers, to ambassadors, to role models who can kind of tweet alongside, you know, bets and things like that. so we need to find a way of developing laws and regulations that allow us to stay current with technology. in the uk, gambling adverts are increasingly prevalent on daytime tv, where more women are watching than men, which means advertisers are actively targeting them.