Scrapping Manchester's supercasino in favour of other regeneration projects would cost 3,000 jobs and GBP 1bn, the city council has claimed. The figures are revealed in documents sent by town hall officers to a government panel looking at alternative ways of bringing work and economic wealth to the proposed site of the casino at Sportcity. The dossier was prepared after Gordon Brown called a halt to plans for the supercasino during the summer.