A lucky 64 year old grandmother from Coventry has just received a spectacular early birthday present after winning over half a million pounds on the National Bingo games Platinum Jackpot. The lady will be 65 this month and she will certainly be celebrating her birthday in style thanks to this massive jackpot bingo win. She will also be sharing her £578,000 cash prize with her younger sister, who she plays bingo with each week at their local Gala Savoy Bingo Club, in Radford Road, Coventry.

Mecca Bingo are about to introduce more Costa Coffee outlets in their land based bingo halls throughout the county. Costa have already opened up five such outlets in Mecca Bingo clubs, which include one in Hamilton and Glasgow, but more are now set to open up in many more of their bingo clubs very soon. Mecca Bingo will manage the stands themselves through an agreement that has been reached with Costa owners Whitbread.

The popular deluxe bingo hall that is located on the bottom floor of the Palace Hotel in Southend has had its doors padlocked by bailiffs leaving bingo players in complete shock, as there was no indication that the bingo hall was about to shut down. The Bailiffs also left a note on the bingo halls doors warning the stylus sports group not try and gain entry into the building as any attempt to do this could lead to them being prosecuted.

TV Bingo seems to be a sign of the times lately with more and more online bingo sites plunging into the world of live interactive TV. The UK’s Bingo halls seem to be in steady decline at the moment whilst online bingo and live TV bingo seem to be on the up and up. Gala Bingo have been broadcasting live TV bingo for some time on Sky TV and their online bingo players can now play alongside their TV viewers by purchasing bingo tickets in the all new “TV room” at their online bingo site.

Software giant’s Microgaming have just been given the nod for their all new online bingo software by the (LGA) Lotteries and Gaming Authority in Malta. Microgaming are leaders in their field when it comes to casino and poker based software, and you could say that they are leading the way for others to follow in their footsteps. We have seen the introduction of their innovative Viper gaming software that launched at casino sites in January 2004, and this proved to be a massive success across the online gaming markets.

A lucky man is now over £60,000 richer after playing bingo at his local Gala Bingo club and hitting the jackpot on the national bingo game. He now plans to take a trip to Australia to visit his son with his winnings and this was only made possible for the 62 year old man, who comes from Bradford, due to winning such a large cash sum at Gala Bingo! 

Foxy Bingo is the latest online bingo operator to find their TV advert being scrutinized by the Adverting Standards Authority (ASA) after a complaint was made by a viewer who believed that their ad would appeal to children as the main character in their ad was a fox. Their ad has now been given the all clear by the ASA, but the same cannot be said for William Hills or Camelot’s Bingo adverts as they were both made to remove them from TV viewing in their current forms.

Two lucky ladies have just won over £18,000 a piece in their respective Gala Bingo and Place Bingo clubs after hitting the jackpot prize on the National Bingo Game on the same night and sharing the prize money between them! A 36 year old lady from Scotland has been left bewildered by her big bingo win and a 69 year old pensioner from Great Yarmouth is now planning a holiday thanks to hitting the jackpot on what must be one of the biggest bingo games to play anywhere in the world!

A number of celebrities started off their careers in bingo halls before they made it big in the celebrity world and these include movie heartthrob Russell Crowe, Kian from West Life, Simon from boy band Blue and Eastender’s very own Shane Richie. They all began their working lives calling out bingo numbers in their respective bingo halls before making the jump into stardom! Robbie Williams even went to his local bingo hall in stoke to play bingo with Daryl Hannah for his music video called “Steal”.