I’d have got to this story earlier, but I was away most of the week taking a break from the internet and all. It’s a pretty staggering story really, and I’d love to know more about the actual mechanics of what went on how the people involved were able to affect the outcome of the […]
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All The 999s – Lifesaving Time!
Nice sweet story in the press this week regarding a woman who’s life was saved by an off-duty paramedic whilst down at the bingo. Luckily the paramedic was at the right place at the right time because he was only dropping off his wife at the club and not playing himself. Heart attacks, unfortunately are […]
Another Club Closes
Well, another week, another bingo hall closes……..as the recession hits the country big style, a flagship club in Preston has to shut its doors just 2 short years after a big grand opening!!!!!! What makes it more poignant for me is that one of my bingo buddies and north-west bingo caller of the year Allen […]
The Boy’s Are Back In Bingo
The lads are back in the bingo!!!!.……although in a strictly online sense of the word. Apparently there study has found that nearly 1 in 5 players in the online bingo world are now male….. Now, regular readers of this website will know that we support the bingo playing men of this country; I’m a man […]
Prize And Party
Was browsing through one of the groups on a well known networking site and stumbled across a topic about Prize and Party and how to generate more income from these ancillary games. It’s a topic that is potentially crucial to the survival of the bingo industry; especially when you have to factor into it the […]
Mecca Bingo 2.0 – New Club At Beeston
It’s good to see Mecca Bingo are fighting back against the malaise in the retail industry, bucking the trend of club closures and the lack of imagination in where to take the game. Their prime weapon is a new club to be opened in Beeston, Nottingham. This is what they have to say about it: […]
Bingo Bonus Blaster – A Quick Review (Buyer Beware)
I’ve been seeing an increasing amount of spam recently for something called Bingo Bonus Blaster, a so-called no-risk system for making it big playing online bingo. Intrigued by the premise I set off to find out more. It seems the people behind this system are going on a big hype offensive – the site for […]
Rank Execs Buying Shares
It was interesting to see a number of large share purchases by execs at the Rank Group. According to ShareCast, last week the chief executive Ian Burke doubled his shareholdings in the company and this week finance director Paddy Gallagher has also bought a large number of shares. A couple of things could be going […]
Bleeding Eck!
Hark at this article about a pensioner being booted out of her local bingo club because she was smoking a ‘pretend cigarette’!!!!!! Has the country gone well and truly mad; or is it just the bingo manager at this particular club. Apparently the pensioner was removed because it was ‘in the best interests of the […]
Could E-Cig Save The Bingo Industry?
There’s been a lot of press and comment around an incident at Rio Bingo in Canvey Island where pensioner Helen Skinner was asked to leave the hall for smoking an electronic cigarette. I say smoking, but the truth of the matter is there was no actual smoking going on as the cigarette she was inhaling […]
