The UK Super Casino goes to....

[Simmo!]

Manchester

....or maybe not: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6500859.stm

[Simmo!]

Lords scupper super-casino plan

Peers have rejected a decision to build the UK's first super-casino in Manchester by just three votes....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6500859.stm

Read the whole article though, it's not cut and dried as such.

Like we recently saw in the US, Senators being bought off with campaign funding, over here you can buy a peerage. Well, not on paper, but in reality you can as has been proven. Cash for honours they call it. So watch out for Lord Harrah sometime soon

[EasyRhino]

What surprised me was the size. 1250 slots is kind of medium-sized by California Indian casino standards, and small by Vegas Strip standards.

... what's the millenium dome used for now, anyway? Wig storage?

[cynthial]

How very rude to poke fun at that lovely modern achitectural carbuncle.
No virgins for you!

[mucullus]

... what's the millenium dome used for now, anyway? Wig storage?

Maybe the O2 can resolve the city's garbage problem. I read somewhere that London's landfill site only has 20 years of life left at its current size.

[purplenaomi]

Maybe the O2 can resolve the city's garbage problem. I read somewhere that London's landfill site only has 20 years of life left at its current size.

Good idea! it doesn't seem to be being used for anything else.