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The number of people going online to place a bet in the UK is on the increase.

The Gambling Commissions quarterly survey indicated that the number of people going online to place a bet in the UK, is on the rise.  This rise, experts suggest, places people at risk for addiction.

Connecting by using a a mobile phone and via TV, to gamble is on the increase as well,  with almost 3% of adults using their handset as a gambling tool at least once in the month before the surveys in the year to June.

According to the survey, remote gamblers are more likely to be male and between the ages of 18 and 34.

Addiction experts said that the advent of internet gambling had taken away some of the negative stigma of traditional gambling, which could encourage different people into gambling, notably woman and younger people.