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Gala bingo had no option but to give a Glasgow OAP a lifetime ban from all of their bingo halls. The 96 year old from Pollock was attending her local club when she noticed that someone was sitting in her favourite seat, she abruptly told them to move or suffer ‘dire consequences’ the assistant manager [...]

Its good to see some celebrities getting in on the act, that is getting involved in bingo for a good cause and not just lining their pockets. The latest was Mickey Hughes, the runner up at Big Brother 9 (OK, fine, we are stretching the word ‘celebrity’ to its very max), he was calling the [...]

Brazilian football stars Gilberto Silva and Maicon were over an hour late for a press conference about their latest match against Italy in the Confederation Cup (Sunday 21st June). A spokesman for the team explained to scores of reporters that the team were at a team building exercise. The team had been on a safari [...]

* Please note that this blog post is about offline bingo and not online bingo * At the beginning of 2007 bingo was deemed the new ‘night out’ as more and more young people were entering through its doors. This was a boom time for the bingo organisers as the money was flooding in, causing [...]

Yesterday (15th June 2009) Gala bingo announced that due to recent tax increase they are now considering closing at least 6 of their 156 clubs with the loss of 180 jobs. Gala which is backed by private equity companies Permira, Candover and Cinven recently announced that there will be no more redundancies after streamlining in [...]

Gaming companies are claiming that the Revenue and Customs breached European “fiscal neutrality” rules. This came about when bingo and casino giants, The Rank Group won a landmark high court ruling which enables them to claim back, what they say is overpaid tax, this amount will be in the region of £62million. This paves the [...]

Bruno, the new film by star Sacha Baron Cohen is already getting ready to fight a lawsuit even before the film is released on July. It is reported the Baron Cohen will play a flamboyant gay Austrian fashionistaite in the latest of his controversial films. The trouble happened at a charity bingo game, where the [...]

In recent years the bingo community must think that the government have something against them. Firstly the smoking ban was introduced in 2007, this act stopped 8% of the total people playing bingo in the traditional halls. This figure might not seem like a great amount, but if you think that more people visit bingo [...]

With more than 3 million people now playing bingo on a regular basis, the major sites are offering some great deals and promotional gimmicks to get even more people playing. Bingo once home to the OAPs is now a thriving industry which now attracts more and more younger players. It is a relatively cheap night [...]