Now that we have heard from the Government on their decision to have more high paying slots machines available for bingo clubs, the bingo clubs must be rejoicing from the rooftops. Although the move is not a huge change, it does double the amount of these slot machines for bingo halls and therefore doubles any [...]

I have just read that the relaxation of the laws Governing the amount of high paying slot machines in British bingo halls might just be the trigger that triggers the break up or sale of the Rank group that operates Mecca Bingo in the UK. I don’t know how this is possible, but am going [...]

Finally we have a decision from the UK Government regarding slot machines in bingo halls. They have handed a much needed lifeline to the industry in a complete U-turn on the amount of ₤500 jackpot slots allowed in bingo halls. Heaven knows there has been enough lobbying for this to take place. I don’t know [...]

It comes as no surprise to me that Parlay Entertainment has picked up two awards at the Online Bingo Summit recently held in London. They are a leading supplier of online bingo software for both TV and internet solutions. Hardly a week goes by without Parlay Entertainment being in the news, and they were also [...]

Rumours have been abounding that the Former Gala Bingo Club in Nuneaton was going to be turned into one of the new budget brand Primark stores. Apparently theses rumours have now been squashed and the former bingo hall in Abbey Street is now safe from being turned into a High Street store. Although it has [...]

The Deluxe Bingo bingo club in Hastings experienced an all new type of visit when a drunk man climbed to the top of the club and was spotted on the canopy at 2am. The police were called by a member of the public who told the police that the man had climbed up by way [...]

After having waited more than 50 days for a response from the Government regarding the placement of more slot machines in Bingo halls, and the announcement to the British Bingo Association that something would be done about this, apparently we are going to be hearing something on Wednesday. I personally am not going to be [...]

One of the problems with Bingo games launching on Television is that many people actually cannot receive the satellite channels they are launched on. This is the case with Gala TV on Sky. Not everyone has access to it. In order to make the channel more readily available to UK bingo fans, they have launched [...]

The Online Bingo Summit recently held at the Royal Gardens Hotel in London has selected the Best Affiliate Programme in the business today. And the winner is “Income Access”. On 17th June 2008 Income Access was awarded as the best bingo affiliate online today. This company has always focused building proactive relationships with its gaming [...]

The longest surviving marriage in the UK has been attributed to bingo and kisses before bedtime as well as good plain “English Food”. Anita and Frank Milford who recently celebrated their Oak Wedding Anniversary, The Oak anniversary represents 80 years of wedlock! The devoted couple, Frank is 100 and Anita is 99 years old, celebrated [...]

The UK’s very own Sky Broadcasting has announced the launch of a new Bingo game on their channel. This interactive game is a new development that is thought to give the game of bingo, already huge in the UK, an even bigger boost. The reason for this is because they can watch telly and play [...]

Sixty Five year old Joy Ammon of Rushden is the latest in a long line of winners to have a go at the national Bingo prize and she won ₤61 499.15 at the flutters bingo club. She is the third big winner at the club in a short space of time. The other two winners [...]

The online bingo site, Wink Bingo has got one of the most appropriate promotions on offer at the moment. It is a chance to win an eight night holiday for two on board the cruise liner “Miracle” through the Caribbean. But not only that, this cruise is a “Bingo” cruise, and what better way to [...]

I couldn’t resist adding this little snippet to my blog, I thought it was really nice, and in the wake of the Gala Bingo Club in Swindon being nearly closed down, I thought it was necessary to add, just to reiterate what bingo actually does for the community.
I don’t know if you are aware but [...]

A thirty eight year old cleaner is the latest big winner in the National Bingo game; she made a clean sweep of it when she picked up ₤69 000 at the Charles Cross Gala Bingo Club on Sunday. The woman is going to be sharing her winnings with her daughter with whom she plays bingo. [...]

Mother of two, Tracey Claire, a forty four year old from Sutton Coldfied in Birmingham, wants to be crowned the UK’s National Bingo Caller of the Year. She has been playing bingo for twenty years and has worked at the Stockland Green Gala Bingo for the past seven and she us up against seven male [...]

It is with great sadness that I write about another bingo hall closure in the UK, this time in Birmingham. Seventeen jobs will be lost with the closure of the Gala Bingo Club in Great Barr, Birmingham when it finally closes its doors to players on the 23rd June 2008, although Gala Coral is going [...]

Today, the leading bingo software developer, Parlay unveiled the long anticipated Parlay 5 to the online bingo industry in London. The big unveiling was held at the Third Annual Online Bingo Summit being held at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington and I have been awaiting this with baited breath. The reason being is that [...]

With the race for the National Bingo Caller of the Year Competition hotting up, bingo caller from Sheffield, Roger Hartly is really hoping that his numbers com up at the end of the month when he hits the stage at the bingo calling finals. Who knows if he wins we might just be hearing his [...]

One Braknell bingo playing pensioner has been watching the results for the Presidential race with perhaps more of a close eye than the rest of us. This person happens to be the Stepmom of Barak Obama. That is right, she lives in the UK and as her famous stepson gets closer to the Whitehouse, she [...]

It is really hard for me to believe that Mrs. Colleen Rooney (to be) hosted a Bingo game for one of her hen nights, but bingo it was for her and her girlfriends, then a cocktail party and a night club afterwards. This bingo party was not the only hen party for this soon to [...]

Bingo Palace together with Parlay Entertainment has been given the go ahead for their Alderney license application. We regularly talk about parlay Entertainment and so we should, they are after all the leading supplier of bingo software in the world today. Parlay entertainment powers more online bingo sites than any other operator. Just bearing this [...]

British Bingo and gaming giant, Ladbrokes are presently embroiled in a legal action brought against them by Svenske Spel, the State run gambling monopoly. It is not bad enough that Svenske Spel have been in the news them-selves, on an ongoing basis because of their desire to privatize in order to dominate a regulated gambling [...]

The little town of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire is home to the Flutters Bingo Hall and it appears as though the local Town Council has taken umbrage to the brightness of the lights outside the bingo hall, that warmly welcome, regular fans of bingo. Apparently the bingo hall did not apply for planning permission to have [...]

The Unites States has tried it and couldn’t pull it off. Last year they launched a Television game show featuring bingo, but somehow didn’t quite manage to pull it off. However we believe that for the UK market it might have a different pull, because although the game of bingo is really popular in the [...]

It has been reported in the US press, the New York Post to be exact, that the popular online bingo site, Party Gaming is going to have to foot a huge $1 Billion to avoid being prosecuted by the US Government for pre Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act activities in the United States.  I don’t [...]

I personally cannot get enough of bingo, actually I love it so much that I am surprised that I even get time to write these blogs, but then again, we should always make time for things that are important to us and writing about bingo is certainly high on my list of “things to do”.

The [...]

Parlay Entertainment, the world’s leading developer who dominates the licensing of Internet bingo markets, particularly in regulated jurisdictions such as the UK and Europe, always fascinates me. I love hearing news of this world leader in the online bingo industry, and as they are perpetually changing and updating their services, I find any news of [...]

It always makes me think really hard when I hear stories such as these. I mean, how on earth can a game like bingo which is a completely innocuous and fun entertainment experience, become a source for problem gambling? Ah but there is the rub, it is not actually bingo that is the problem, it [...]

Sixty seven year old Ann Davison from West Rainton regularly plays at the Gala bingo club in Galleries Leisure Park, Washington with husband Joe and another couple, Nancy and Peter Stehenson, they have been playing together for many years. She recently won more than ₤61 000 and will be sharing he money with the Stephenson couple even though they were not with them on the night of her big win. Ann, who used to be a telephonist says that they have always shared what they win playing bingo. She won ₤10 00 at the gala club last years and shared that with them too.