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 […]
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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 […]
Baby Named After Bingo Club
Bit of a quick end of the news style story from Metro today. Congratulations to Shelly Smith on the birth of her new baby girl. She went into labour at the Castleford Gala Bingo Club, and as a result – named her Mika Jade Gala. Good job she never went into labour in the Castleford […]
Lancaster Hall To Be Turned Into Homes
Although it’s a bit late for the old Gala Bingo Hall in Lancaster which closed back in February, it looks like the building could find a new life. Lancaster today reports the hall is up for sale with tenders being invited to purchase with the potential to turn it into a mixture retail and housing […]
