When it comes to land based bingo halls we all know the big names like Mecca and Gala but across the country there are a number of independent clubs as well. Beach Bingo is one such club and on Saturday night their Lucky 7’s progressive jackpot reached an impressive £6,501. The jackpot had been growing […]
Tag: Land Bingo
E-Cigarette Causes Bingo Hall Problems Again
A grandmother was recently asked to leave Castle Bingo in Canton, Cardiff for smoking an E-cigarette inside the premises. Joe Cummings is a bit disgruntled about it all, as she took up E-cigs due to poor health induced by smoking. Since quitting the real ‘fags’, her health has improved, although she is now unable to […]
Armed Police Remove Disabled Bingo Player From Club
Kevin Thomas, 47, was removed from Gala Bingo in Milton Keynes, after staff had called 999. A disabled bingo player, he apparently made some disparaging remarks about the food, and also insulted the staff. At no point during the incident did he produce a firearm, knife, or other weapon, and is not known to be […]
Mecca Bingo After Dark Nights
Bingo has always had a reputation as being for the older generation with references often made about “purple rinses” (or blue for that matter) and bingo wings but for quite some time now land based bingo halls have been working to attract the younger generation through the doors. The world of online bingo hasn’t suffered […]
Back In Business, The Return Of Playing Bingo
You’d be forgiven for thinking the site had gone the way of the dodo the last couple of years. I’m as shocked it’s taken as long myself. The old blog shut down in April 2010, due to Blogger removing support for FTP publishing. My aim was to take the opportunity to build a new blog, […]
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 Babble – New Interviews, Bingo Hall History And Lost Hall
I can’t quite recall who said it, but someone at the 3rd Online Bingo Summit described a number of people as ‘Bingo nerds’. Well, I guess I must be one, as this will be Bingo babble to most people, but I’m actually really excited to be making this post as I’ve got a load of […]
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 […]
Bingo Louts Set Booby Traps
News from Surrey about a shocking attack on a Bingo night by local bored youths. The charity event at the church hall in Smallfield was attended by 50 players, including a OAPs and children. A gang of local thugs ruined the night by turning it into a night of fear. They even tried to booby-trap […]
Chippenham Bingo Club Robbery
It’s been quite quiet on the crime front, I’ve not heard of any major robberies at a Bingo club for a good few months now. However, over the weekend there was an armed robbery at the Angel Bingo Club on Marshfield Road in Chippenham. This Is Wiltshire reports that a male aged roughly in his […]
