Bingo News

Last week the gaming industry held their 5th annual mobile gaming summit in London and according to the consensus around this summit, bingo and other gaming activities are set to rise significantly in 2009 on hand held devices like mobile phones. This forecast however has been made before and the actual numbers ended up being nowhere near what was predicted. Mfuse is once such mobile gaming software provider looking to get a bigger foot hole in the UK gaming markets next year.

The Baker Street Bingo hall that was aptly dubbed “Lucky Lossie” after their bingo players kept on winning some great cash prizes as well as some luxury goodies that included holidays and even a brand new car, now faces an uncertain future after plans were submitted to Moray Council to demolish the bingo club and build houses in its place. This news has not gone down well with their regular bingo players as it is the last remaining independent bingo club to operate in the Quayside, Lossiemouth area in Scotland.

Putting someone else before themselves has just won one very deserving lady more than £300,000 on the high five jackpot game at Gala Bingo in Brighton. The care worker, who asked to remain anonymous took the lady she was looking after out for an afternoon at the bingo and from bingo tickets costing just £2.50 to purchase won her this massive jackpot prize. Plus the other 239 bingo players that were participating in the high five jackpot game at Gala Bingo in Fresh field Way at the same time were also quid’s in as they all equally shared the other half of this big bingo jackpot win between them.

Julian Cottrell, former manager of the Beacon Bingo Club has now turned his hand to Cafe Owner after opening his own cafe in Fish Street, Northampton last week. The former bingo boss ran the Beacon bingo club in St James, for about 6 years and you could say that he also made history in South Africa because it was reported that he was the first ever bingo caller to call out bingo numbers in South Africa, where he worked at the time back in 1998.

The National Bingo game has just released details of a Xmas bonus that they are going to give all their bingo players the chance of winning on Sunday night 21st December and this bingo event will be taking place in all participating national game land based bingo clubs up and down the UK. All players that take part in the National Bingo Game on evening will get the chance to win a share of the platinum jackpot prize that is attached to this bingo institution.

The staff at Mecca Bingo in Southport, have just smashed through their Whizz-Kidz charity target by over £500, which is great news for this charity. Mecca Bingo, with the help of their staff are currently on a big charity drive in their bingo halls up and down the UK and their workers in Southport and now celebrating after raising £2,543.13 so far this year, which has gone far beyond the £2,000 annual target that they were set to achieve.

MP Stewart House and spokesperson for the SNP Treasury Party has backed the land based bingo industries fright to abolish the absurd double taxation law that is placed upon bingo halls throughout the UK. Under this current law, bingo clubs have to pay both VAT at 17.5% and a gross profit tax at 15% and this is believed to be a massive contributing factor as to why we have seen over 100 bingo halls close their doors for the very last time over recent years.

The Buckingham Bingo hall in Walkden, Salford (near Manchester) have been fined £10,000, plus ordered to pay court costs of £2,000, after it was found their safety standards were still not up to scratch nine months on after one of their bingo employees seriously burned themselves in an accident in their kitchen. It has been reported that the Buckingham Bingo Hall pleaded guilty of failing to ensure the health, safety and welfare at work of employees in the Ellesmere Retail Park, at Salford Magistrates Court last week.

Amelia turned 100 years old on 5th November and she celebrated this milestone in her life by holding a big birthday bash at her local British Legion Club in Rumney, Cardiff, where she still plays bingo at least once a week. It was reported that more than 150 people attended her big birthday event to congratulate the lady, but due to an error when her father registered her date of birth with the registry office when she was born, Amelia was still waiting from her card from the Queen as her dad put her date of birth down as 15th November instead of 5th November.