You may have spotted a pretty minor news article t’other day about a local councillor in Sudbury, Suffolk who’s been banned from using some of the saucier bingo calls at local council bingo nights. His bosses thought that sayings like ‘two fat ladies’ for 88 or ‘legs eleven’ for 11 could be taken as offensive, […]
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Bingo Tax Cut And VAT Repayment
If you follow the bingo news then you can’t help but have noticed a couple of stories the last week revolving around taxation and the bingo industry. With last week’s pre-budget report, the industry had hoped to see the Chancellor reduce his prior rise on the bingo tax which shot up to 22% from 15%. […]
Gala’s Everest Bingo Game Not The Highest?
First up today, congratulations to the 25 bingo players / Gala staff members that engaged in a game of bingo on the slopes of Everest last week. The event was more than a year in the planning, and arranged to raise money for Gala Coral’s nominated charity, Sue Ryder Care. It was a pretty momentous […]
Cheap Bingo Jackpot Games – The Next Online Bingo Battleground
Prior to their relaunch last month, Sky Bingo ushered in the news with great secrecy around one of their headline new features. At the time all was hush-hush from the company, as they feared rivals would take the opportunity to trump them and their market leading offer. Their new innovation was the birth of the […]
PartyBingo And Free Bingo Show Kerfuffle
Oh my goodness, well, following on from yesterdays mention of Fives ‘Free Bingo Show’, I took the opportunity to try the game out. I signed up for the game at the site and claimed tickets for today’s game. Low and behold I was pleasantly surprised to find I’d won a fiver on today’s show. Now, […]
Networked Bingo Site Bonus Avoidance – Some Thoughts
Imagine if you will this. You’re off to Tesco to get your weekly shop. For a change of scenery you go to the branch on the other side of town. You get there, fill your trolley with shopping then get to the checkout. The cashier looks at you sternly and says “sorry governor, I’m afraid […]
Back To It
Well, it’s been a long hard Summer for me, with my adventures taking me away from bingo and in to completely new areas. As a result, things have been on the quiet side around here, but now I’m getting back to it and catching up with it all. I actually took time out of my […]
Mecca Bingo Ban Long Standing Member
I have to start by saying that I find this story particularly shocking. According to the report in the Daily Mail, pensioner and longtime member of the Mecca Bingo, Rosalyn Clemson has been banned from every single Mecca Bingo in the UK. Her crime was organising a trip for other club members to a rival […]
The Bingo Association Tackle The Government With Facebook
There’s been a few more stories floating around about the backlash against the rise in bingo tax at the last budget. Here’s another one this time from Rochdale, and one from Lothian. Interestingly, The Bingo Association has turned to the world of web 2.0 to try and get their message across with a campaign on […]
Online Bingo Battle – Virtue Fusion Vs St Minver
One other thing that’s caught my attention as well the last couple of weeks is the movement of sites from the St Minver network to Virtue Fusion. Rather than throw it in with the other rash of stories in the last post, it’s something I wanted to look at in a bit more detail, given […]
