There’s been a couple of news stories this week around Gala Bingo’s financial status, or rather the status of the parent company Gala Coral. The private equity backed company has been suffering along with others in the industry, especially in its retail casino business. According to the Guardian the company’s debt rose to £4.4 billion, […]
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Off To Bingo
Hello there. Not much happening at the moment…….but I am going to my local bingo club in a moment for the first time in ages so it will be nice to see if anything is different and how busy it is etc………. will report back later!!!!!!!! ………Well I never bleeding won which is the first […]
3/4 Of The Club Celebrate…1/4 Doesn’t!
Great article this about a club in Brighton winning the Gala Hi Five jackpot and winning around £700,000. Half that total being given to the winning ticket holder and the rest being dished out to all the other participating players in the hall who took away over £1000 each!!!!!!! The thing that makes me chuckle […]
Re: Bingo Night Live
After reading about the end of the ITV bingo show I can’t say that I am surprised about the news. It was a great idea and an excellently produced show, but it had a lot of things going against it: Firstly the show was obviously an hour long advert for ITV online. Anyone winning one […]
ITV’s Bingo Night Live Cancelled
At the weekend, the 5 month old ITV Bingo Night Live ended with the last standing £25,000 jackpot being given away to the winner of the final house game. The Bingo Night Live website says this was the end of the series, which to me implies the show is coming back. However, there’s news from […]
New History Piece Added – The York Clifton
Just a quick note for the history fans out there, Ian Grundy has returned with another Bingo hall history piece for the site, illustrated with his photographs. This time Ian has given us an insight into am independently run hall – The Clifton Bingo Club in York. He covers the building’s early history as a […]
Gala Coral Jobs Go In Restructuring
The Times had a report on some major changes at Gala Coral. The private equity company behind Gala Bingo are restructuring to improve their financial position and shedding up to 200 jobs as a part of the process. The move will see their five divisions cut down and rejigged to 3 – gaming, retail betting […]
Rank Take It To The Bank
Well, following their case of unfair taxation under EU laws on fiscal neutrality, The Rank Group announced it has today received £59.1 million from the UK Government. Initially reports mentioned they expected to get £36 million back from the HMRC, so I’m wondering if the amount they received is for a number of years worth […]
National Bingo Caller Time Of The Year…Well It Would Have Been!
It is around this time of year when normally this site and my blog would be full of news about the National Bingo caller of the year competition: but as the contest is suspended this year this months rambling piece will be more reflective on my experiences as being a contestant and a former title […]
Welcome To The White List – Antigua and Barbuda
If you work in online bingo and run adverts for Bingo sites like I do here, then you’ll be aware of the DCMS and UK Gambling Commission’s white list of approved regions for the operation of online gaming. Technically it’s against regulations to be displaying adverts for sites licensed in areas that aren’t on the […]
