As our readers will know on some occasions I like to visit our local bingo hall, this is the Mecca Bingo hall in York. As it is quite a trek, my friends and I usually travel by car which means using the parking facilities at the club. A recent news article caught my eye in […]
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MP Visits Biggelswade Flutters Bingo
The Boost Bingo Campaign is well under way, and last Friday North East Bedfordshire MP, Alistair Burt, visited Flutters Bingo in Biggleswade to show his support for the launch. Support has already been shown in the commons, but now MPs are actually being proactive in promoting the campaign in the presence of the people that […]
Bingo Association Gets Support From MPs
It looks like things are really starting to move in the battle against the unfair bingo taxation level. The campaign initiated by the Bingo Association now has the support of over 50 members of Parliament. The ‘Boost Bingo’ campaign got off to a big start over the weekend with free bingo link games in it’s […]
Farnborough To Get Bingo Hall
There have been very few openings of new bingo halls over recent years, a few takeovers, but of late we haven’t seen much in the way of investment in new bingo premises. Farnborough however should be getting a brand new bingo hall this year if things go to plan. Apparently local residents travel as far […]
A Wedding Proposal At BingoCams
BingoCams boasts a unique player interface, bringing that real face to face experience to the online game by adding webcams to show your winning moments, and now the site has had its first online marriage proposal, but is all as it seems? It’s not the first time BingoCams has been connected to true love, back […]
Free Bingo Link Games Across UK Clubs
If you’ve been reading this blog you will know that the bingo industry in the UK has been struggling for some time now, and many claim that unfair taxation is doing further harm. It is the only area where the government can intervene to help one of Britain’s well loved institutions survive. But why should […]
Half Of Bingo Play Now Mobile
When the first online bingo sites launched back at the turn of the century (that makes it sound a long time ago!), there was an explosion and in a relatively short time the world went from considering bingo to be a game for old people, to thinking of it as a vibrant game to be […]
Tyneside Bingo Halls Live On
One of Britain’s oldest bingo halls is to change ownership as current owners Tommy and Michael Hearn have decided to call it a day, and at the ages of 80 and 81, who can blame them. They opened Crown Bingo Hall in Hudson Street in 1961, not long after the Gaming Act 1960 was passed, […]
Consumption Tax To Affect Bingo Players
In the last couple of years we’ve seen many changes to gambling taxation as the government try and keep tabs on what is a massive growth industry. Land Bingo halls haven’t fared well and are liable to pay a 20% tax levy, a great deal for an industry already struggling and adding to the lost […]
Full Monty Stripping Gets Ayr Mecca Bingo In Trouble
We recently reported on an advertised night of stripping in Mecca Bingo in Catford, and although we don’t know how the evening went we’re guessing that it went well, as other Mecca clubs have recently been following suit. The Scottish based Fantasy Boys have recently been getting their kit off in Mecca’s Romford, Aberdeen, and […]
