The All Party Ticketing Abuse Group has launched, with the aim to tackle fraud in the secondary ticketing market.

Set up by Conservative MP Mike Weatherley, the informal cross-party group will meet for the first time next week, according to The Telegraph.

Weatherley is determined to get to the bottom of how ''botnets’’ - the computer programs used to buy large numbers of tickets at one time - are being used. Acquiring tickets using a bot program is a ...