You might not have noticed it, but June the 1st marked the end of a long standing free sign-up offer at Foxy Bingo. Previously new players signing up at Foxy Bingo gained £10 of free games to try the site out with, in the hope of enticing them to stay on at the site and […]
Category: News
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ITV’s Bingo Night Live Starts On The 4th June
It feels like ages ago I first mentioned that Bingo Night Live was coming to the UK, but finally the show airs for the first time on Wednesday the 4th of June. Initially there was little detail about the programme’s format, but according to What’s On TV’s feature on it, the UK show does sound […]
William Hill Bingo TV Advert Banned By ASA
William Hill Bingo’s new TV campaign is making waves for all the wrong reasons. A number of complaints were made to the Advertising Standards Authority about their TV advert which depicted a wife altering the clock in the kitchen to get her husband out earlier so she could play Bingo. According to the ASA’s report, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Government Say No To Removing VAT On Bingo
Sneaking in on Friday, just as everyone else was rushing off to seaside for the Bank Holiday weekend, The Times carried a story about the Government’s response to the calls from the Bingo industry to remove the VAT burden on Bingo. The Government have effectively robbed the Bingo industry of its most cherished and firmly […]
