I’ve had a bit of a flurry working on new pages here – first up is a quick guide to help people who’ve always wondered about the difference between the UK and American versions of the game. So to give you a quick insight, I added an article – The Differences Between 90 Ball UK […]
Category: News
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New Look National Bingo Site Has Issues
Hmm, well, I reported a while back about the National Bingo Game getting a good rebranding and the site a long needed overhaul. Well, looks like they didn’t quite get a good enough job done. Whilst the old site was a bit plain, it at least displayed properly in the FireFox web browser. I was […]
Faking It As A Bingo Caller
Theres’a great article been published at the Daily Record which follows Craig Mcqueen as he enters the Scottish leg of the Bingo Caller Of The Year competition. The remarkable thing is, he’d never called Bingo before in his life, let alone been in a Bingo hall! Find out how he did and how well he […]
High Wycombe Club Gets New Location
News from Buckinghamshire of a reprieve for High Wycombe Bingo fans. Following the closure of the Needham Bingo and Social Club a fortnight ago, the hundreds of members have been looking for something to do. The hard working Bingo caller has successfully managed to find a new location for the members and the Bingo nights. […]
Bingo Community Site Launches
If you’ve been on the web for any length of time, you can’t have failed to come across MySpace. If you haven’t it’s a dumbed down web publishing platform that gives anyone the chance to make a web page, network it with friends and contacts and customise it to your hearts content. Well, now there’s […]
Flesh On Show At Glenrothes Gala
Nude calendars by normal people was once such a shock to the system that it made national headlines and the ladies who did it first international stars. They’re pretty common fair now, naked firemen, nude gardners, etc. Now there’s a Bingo one to add to the list – staff at the Glenrothes Gala in Fife […]
Online Bingo Chat Manager Of The Month
A bit of news here for fans of Online Bingo Chatrooms. The CM of the Year board has now started a monthly vote for online players to vote for their favourite CMs (Chat Managers) on UK sites. September 1st 2006 saw CM of the Year.com, sister site of WhichBingo.com, launch it’s eagerly awaited stand alone […]
Rebranding Bingo – But What About The Blokes?
Well, out in Bingo land, it looks like the penny is starting to drop. The message is, attract a new audience or go under come the smoking ban. We’ve mentioned the National game’s rebranding before on this blog, but there’s more detail here on the £2m rebrand. Getting in on the game, there’s news that […]
Bingo Firms Ask For £10m Rebate
Scotland On Sunday have an interesting article on the Scottish Bingo industry’s attempt to get a £10m tax rebate from Gordon Brown (good luck on that one!) The chairman of the Bingo Association will be at the forefront of the campaign to get the politicians to repay some of the VAT to offset the 20% […]
200 Job Losses For Mecca Bingo
The oncoming smoking ban and decling position of Rank as a Bingo giant will see 200 jobs going across the UK in the Mecca Bingo chain. The 200 job losses are a premptive cut to ofset the UK wide smoking ban that will be coming into effect next year. Once again, I have to moan […]
