Congratulations to the clever lawyer-type people who spotted the loophole which could mean that the bingo industry could get millions back from the tax man!!!! The government have been routinely screwing the bingo industry (with other, more profit making, gambling areas being ‘overlooked’) for a number of years now. It just goes to show that […]
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Mecca Bingo To Get £36 Million In VAT Back
I’m just back off holiday and catching up with the news. Talk about bad timing, the one week in the year I’m away from the PC for any length of time, two of the largest Bingo news stories of the year break! Midweek I found out about Gala Bingo’s withdrawal from the National Game. Then […]
Online Bingo Awards, Demolition Halted And Armed Robbery
Just to catch up with some more of the interesting stories I’ve seen around this week, here’s a few headlines of note for further reading by interested parties. First up news that the eagerly anticipated (by me at least) Online Bingo Summit will be hosting its first Online Bingo Awards. The panel of experts will […]
Gala Bingo Pull Out Of The National Game
Brett was on the ball with this story, he published news on Gala’s decision to pull out of the National Game earlier today. This has come out of the blue for me, it’s a pretty staggering decision. Gala’s reasoning is that they will enhance their High 5 game and use that as the big money […]
Gala Pull Out Of National Game
BIG NEWS in the bingo world!!!! More of which I will mention in my main blog post next week…….Gala are pulling out of the national bingo game and it is in the national press!!!!! I’m sure lots of comment will be posted in the coming weeks but from this bingo caller: I can now say […]
Bingo Crime Spree
There’s been a lot of stories in the press recently of crimes related to Bingo. Brett has been doing a good job in his corner of rounding up a number of related stories, making it the focus of several of his latest posts such as this one and this one too. Brett has also written […]
More £500 Fruit Machines To Be Allowed In Bingo Halls?
Well, the VAT thing didn’t happen, but I just spotted a quick report on the potential of the limits on £500 jackpot machines being raised (yes it’s a week old, I’ve been DIYing this week). I don’t really know so much about the make-up of the fruit machines the clubs are allowed, but I know […]
Not Again!
Here we go again. It looks like my recent couple of posts are still ringing true check this story out about the bingo employee who stole £16,000!!!!!!!! The manager was done as well!!!!!!!!!! It reminds me of the time when I was first working in bingo and I put my pinny on to give out […]
Rank Sees Improved Revenues And No More Closures
An interim trading report from Rank has some good news for the company’s future. It’s showing improved trading figures. According to the report, trading was down on the same period as last year (prior to the introduction of the smoking ban) as was expected. On like-for-like sales there was a drop of 14%, admissions down […]
More Tales Of Stealing…In The Press Recently
With regards to the recent post about illegal activities in the clubs, two contrasting stories caught my eye today. Firstly the tale of a lady who stole from her dead bingo partners account goes to show how low some people can go. And the award for ‘serves you right!’ goes to the robbers of a […]
