It’s not the first time I’ve featured a story about a National Bingo Game prize causing friction between friends and relatives, but this one has a bit of a twist. Instead of featuring a dispute around a share of the National Bingo prize, this one features a dispute about how the money is spent. The […]
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Gala Bingo Pulls Out Of The Bingo Association
News from the Bingo Association that Gala Bingo have pulled out of the UK trade body. I suppose it’s not surprising, following their departure from the National Bingo Game, it seems Gala Bingo are intent on going it alone at the moment. It was interesting to see the Bingo Association’s spin on the departure, stressing […]
Bingo News Roundup
Well, as Autumn is almost upon us, and the little ones are back at school, I’ve been caught up launching a site in time for Halloween and catching up with work from over the summer holidays. I’ve got some great new content lined up for the site the next couple of weeks, but more about […]
Mecca Bingo To Get £36 Million In VAT Back
I’m just back off holiday and catching up with the news. Talk about bad timing, the one week in the year I’m away from the PC for any length of time, two of the largest Bingo news stories of the year break! Midweek I found out about Gala Bingo’s withdrawal from the National Game. Then […]
Gala Bingo Pull Out Of The National Game
Brett was on the ball with this story, he published news on Gala’s decision to pull out of the National Game earlier today. This has come out of the blue for me, it’s a pretty staggering decision. Gala’s reasoning is that they will enhance their High 5 game and use that as the big money […]
Deluxe Bingo Gets Slap On Wrist For Misleading Advertising
Ever since the new Gambling Commission regulations on advertising came into force, I’ve been following the rulings at the Advertising Standard Agency. I follow them as much because I enjoy seeing the sorts of things advertisers get told off with as anything to do with Bingo. Today though a new batch of rulings came down […]
New National Game Delivers The UK’s Biggest Ever Bingo Win
Near enough 4 months after it was first launched, the National Bingo Game’s million pound Big ‘N’ Prize has finally been won. Congratulations go out to Christine Bradfield from Bargoed at the Merthyr Tydfil Castle Bingo club who won herself her a massive £1.1 million prize. If you hadn’t noticed it already, The Big ‘N’ […]
Blake Robson Wins Bingo Caller Of The Year 2007
The results are in, and I’d like to say congratulations to Blake Robson of the South Shields Mecca Bingo – winner of the title NBGA Bingo Caller Of The Year 2007 alongside his victory as the North East region winner. Blake beat off some stiff competition from the other five contestants to win the title. […]
Summer Rain Clouds Have Bingo Silver Lining
With all the doom and gloom forecast ahead of the Smoking Ban, it’s good to see the game surviving and thriving. There seems to be lot in the press about the growth of the game recently. It’s too early to see the impact that the much heralded 2005 Gambling Act will bring to the game’s […]
More Bingo Millionaires In The Pipeline
It seems like the Bingo world is going big money bonkers at the minute. We’ve just had the Kerchingo game from Gala Bingo, which created the UK’s first online bingo millionaire. There’s been an alternative multi site pooled million pound prize floating around before that, despite being what I feel is less than honest about […]
