Three am in a central London casino. Somewhere over the other side of the cavernous room a slot machine is paying out wildly. I hear a cascade of coins banging, apparently endlessly, into a payout ...

In the 1960s, the Canadian government commissioned a series of homosexuality tests known as the fruit machine. It didn't work, and ruined countless lives You can save this article by registering for ...

With its absurdly low payout odds and hassle-free upkeep, no gambling machine pickspockets like the fruitmachine. And no country does them like Britain - with 261,000 machines feeding hungrily off the ...