The evening of Friday the 29th January saw the 2nd Bingoport.co.uk Player’s Choice Awards, held during the 2010 London Affiliate Conference. I was able to attend last year’s event, but due to the pending birth of our 2nd child, I had to miss this event. But fear not, I sent along my colleague to follow […]
Category: News
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Battlefield Bingo From Gala Bingo
If you’ve read our scholarly and in-depth article on the early history of Bingo in the UK, like myself you were no doubt surprised to learn that bingo was played by British troops in the trenches of World War I. The game proved and excellent morale booster and social event for the entrenched soldiers, despite […]
Major Licensing Changes In The Future For Online Bingo
If you’ve not spotted it already, there’s some potentially massive news from the Government today, that could literally change the look of online bingo in the near future. The Minister for Culture, Media and Sport Gerry Sutcliffe today released a statement about his plans to undertake a review of the current licensing system for remote […]
PC Bingo Calls Ban Storm In A Teacup
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, […]
Bingo Buyouts And Takeovers
In other news, there’s been a few major stories to do with bingo company takeovers and sales. First up, and a major pointer towards the consolidation taking place in the online bingo market is the yet to be finalised sale of the standalone Cassava powered site Wink Bingo, which was snapped up by the 888 […]
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%. […]
A Round Of Applause For Brett Please
Well, after two and a half years, our resident Bingo Caller Of The Year Brett Hyrjak has written his last piece for the site. And if I say so myself, what a great piece it is! Full of pictures of Brett’s adventures over the past couple of years writing at the site, and boy has […]
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, […]
