News from Surrey about a shocking attack on a Bingo night by local bored youths. The charity event at the church hall in Smallfield was attended by 50 players, including a OAPs and children. A gang of local thugs ruined the night by turning it into a night of fear. They even tried to booby-trap […]
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Stop The Press – Positive Smoking Ban News Event
The Belfast Telegraph run a piece today that made me smile, given all the recent bad news and dismay in the industry it’s nice to recall the happy side (for non smokers like myself anyway) of the smoking ban. They’ve reported that in a recent survey of its members 87% of them thought the ban […]
Gala Coral Profits Raise And No Club Closures Expected
News from the FT that Gala Coral have seen a profit rise in its last year of trading. The rises come on the last trading year up to September 2007, so the changes brought in to by the 2005 Gambling Act affecting gaming machines won’t real have bitten in much with this report, but it […]
Brett’s Corner – December 2007
Welcome to Brett’s Corner – a monthly column by the 2006 Bingo Caller Of The Year and GalaTV caller. Entertaining The Players – Staff Shows Have you been to your Bingo clubs Christmas show? The staff show is one of those things that all customers love: there’s nothing better for a player than seeing the […]
Rank Scraps Share Dividend
As I mentioned earlier, Rank issued a trading report today that has seen their recent problems continue. Sales and admissions are down, and the near future is described as “challenging.” Share prices dropped slightly, but given the speculation that continues about a take over of the company, the drop was comparatively small given the bad […]
UK Property Developer Gets Share Of Rank
More shares news from Rank, over the weekend it was reported that Richardsons Capital had built up a 9.3% stake in the company. The UK company specialise in property development and has traded in the CFDs rather than actual shares. The FT reports that the company director Lee Richardson considers the company grossly undervalued. A […]
Which Bingo’s 2007 Online Bingo Awards
It’s that time of year, Which Bingo has launched their 2007 online bingo awards. Alongside the international award, there’s also the second UK only award. Which Bingo’s Phil Fraser says of them: “There are some really great bingo sites out there doing a fantastic job. Once a year, Bingo players have a forum to register […]
Brett’s Corner – Bingo Caller Of The Year Final 2007
Brett’s November column has gone up – we can forgive him for being a bit late with this one as his November was pretty hectic. Why? Well, Brett was on the panel of judges for the Bingo Caller Of The Year 2007. Brett held off an earlier piece to give us a nice round up […]
Malaysian Group Get 10% Share In Rank
News and speculation around Rank continues to grow as the Times reports on a secretive share buy out by the Malaysian group Genting. Genting already have a stake in a number of UK leisure businesses, and their 10% stake in Rank is considered to put them in a place to defend against a take over […]
Premier Bingo Manager Speaks Out Against Bingo Taxes
Fife Today have an article on Mike Lowe, the operations manager of the Premier Bingo chain. Mike’s been telling the press that more halls could close unless the situation changes soon of the Government don’t do something about the double taxation issues that are proving to be the bane of Bingo operators around the UK. […]
