I’ve spotted a couple of stories in the news the last week featuring Bingo callers. Unfortunately, both the stories were a bit short in the good news stakes. First up, news that Mecca Bingo caller Ricky Denton failed in his bid to become a boot camp attendee when he failed to impress the X Factor […]
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Early August Round Up
Well, been busy with a few more holiday things, and a few stories have slipped under my posting radar. Without further ado here’s a quick round up on the interesting stories from the last week. First up, not long after Gala’s Kerchingo created the first online bingo millionaire – there’s news of another massive jackpot […]
More On The Gala Kerchingo Winner
Following on from Sunday’s game, The Mirror carried a feature on the winner of online bingo’s biggest prize – Gala’s one million pound Kerchingo game. The winner, 62 year old Pauline Clarke sounds like an ideal winner. New to the internet version of the game, she qualified for the Kerchingo game with the very last […]
Post Holiday Round-up
I’ve been off-line for over a week now thanks to the family holiday and with catching up duties. Rather than reel off a load of short story posts, I thought I’d do an all-in-one round-up of the stories that caught my eye the past 10 days or so. First up, Neteller, one of the more […]
Gala’s Kerchingo Winner And Gala A Profit Winner
Gala Bingo are already the biggest brand in the UK when it comes to Bingo, both online and on the high street. They continue to impress me with the innovations they continue to bring to the game and its marketing. Recent examples of member emails with promotions to tempt online players in to the offline […]
Smoking Ban Breaker Starts Own Campaign
A Bingo player in Wigan was given a warning by the manager of her Bingo club after sneaking off to the loos for a sly fag. As a result of her annoyance of both her treatment and the wider ban, Margaret Paddick has started her own petition signed by a 100 players at the Gala […]
Michael Edwards – Gala’s Bingo Caller Of The Year
The open to all chain National Bingo Caller Of The Year Competition is still a few months away, but Gala have just held their own in-house competition. The winner was Michael Edwards of St Ann’s Gala Bingo. 33 year old Michael was one of the North East finalists in last year’s NBGA competition – and […]
13 Gala Bingo Clubs To Close?
Neil Goulden has admitted that as many as 13 Gala Clubs around the country could close as a result of the smoking ban and the financial problems faced by the industry. Guardian Business has a report that 100s of jobs could be lost in the closures. The closures aren’t as immediate or as definite as […]
Bingo Scotland Dismiss Claims Of Online Bingo Explosion
The online bingo site Bingo Scotland have a new press release out talking about their experiences of picking up customers following the start of the Scottish smoking ban. Whilst many in the industry are talking about an explosion in players come the start of the ban, Bingo Scotland are urging caution, as in their experience, […]
GalaBingo.Com Gone To The Highest Bidder
Bingo Port have an interesting exclusive about the sale of the domain GalaBingo.com. It seems the UK’s Gala Bingo have been after the domain for a while, and through a domain auction the domain has been sold for around £33,000. At present though, it’s not known who was responsible for the purchase. It will be […]
