The Islington Gazette run a story on the closure of the Essex Road Mecca Club. It’s a sad time for many of the regular elders – even with a bus service being laid on, there will be no replacing what’s been lost. It will have been like a second home to many of the regulars […]
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Rank’s Profits Drop
Following the news of the 9 Mecca Bingo clubs closing, Rank are suffering with their earnings dropping by 12% in 2006. Despite the problems with the Bingo area of the business, the chain’s Grosvenor Casinos are doing well, so much so that Rank are planning to bid on the upcoming Casino licenses.
Linda Robson And The Islington Mecca Closure
As one of the ill-fated nine Mecca clubs whose closure was announced last month, the Mecca Bingo club on Essex Road has attracted a lot of press attention. The club is the regular haunt of Birds Of A Feather star Linda Robson and her mum, and Linda has added her backing to the Bingo Association’s […]
Article On Swansea Mecca Closure
Wales Online have an interesting article that looks in-depth at the closure of the Mecca Bingo in Swansea, and further facts and figures on the Bingo and the smoking ban. Will the smoking ban be the death of bingo? (Dead Link)
Prince William’s Bingo Club To Close In Weeks
Following the news from Mecca yesterday of the planned closure of 9 Bingo halls, Get Reading have an article on the closure of the Reading Mecca Bingo. Readers may recall the club has a royal member on its books, as Prince William played there back in October 2006. The club is set to close its […]
Mecca Bingo To Close Nine Halls
It seems the England and Wales smoking ban is already starting to bite at Mecca Bingo. The company has announced the closure of nine Bingo halls around the UK today. Clubs in Fulham, Islington, Kingston-upon-Hull, Liverpool, Reading, Sheffield, Swansea, Welling and Wolverhampton have all been earmarked to be closed and 230 staff positions affected. The […]
Bingo Boss Wins Customer Service Award
News of a top award for Stuart Booth the manager of the Mecca Bingo Club on Hartlepool Marina. Managing to beat of the challenge of another 100 competitors, he won the Sunrise Customer Service Champion award consisting of prize money of £2,000 and a trophy. I have to say, it takes a special kind of […]
Mecca Bingo Get Pro-Active, Nearly…
News from Mecca Bingo in Fishergate, York that they’re in the process of getting permission to erect a large smoking shelter at the front of the club in preparation for the ban in July. Read more… Sigh… They’re just not getting it are they? I hope they have more planned than this. Mecca are not […]
Goodbye 2006, Hello 2007 – Bingo New Year
Well, Happy New Year to all our readers – been as it’s the time of year, I thought I’d share some of my selected highlights from 2006, and thoughts for what will happen in 2007 for Bingo in the UK, off and online. In 2006 the biggest news has been the Scottish Bingo industry’s losses […]
William Hill Bingo?
Interesting financial report from the Guardian that William Hill are considering bidding for The Rank Group after they sell off their Hard Rock Cafe part of the business. The Rank Group run the Mecca chain of Bingo halls, so it’s perhaps fitting that one gaming business with a large high street presence should take over […]
