Popular bingo site, Gala Bingo has launched a range of new slot games. The site which runs on the Virtue Fusion Network has this week announced several games that are exclusive to Gala Bingo, while other games will also appear on Virtue Fusion sites. One slot game that is exclusive to Gala Bingo is the Saturday… Read more »
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Bolton Hospice and Mecca Bingo team up for colour run
Bolton Hospice has teamed up with Mecca Bingo staff to run its first ever “colour run”. The event – which is aiming to raise £5,000 – will see hundreds of participants run around while they get covered in powdered paint. The run is due to take place at Queens Park on Sunday, August 31, reports… Read more »
Gay bingo: children rate TV equality on bingo cards
Education experts have given bingo a new lease of life, by developing a bingo game for school students to examine lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters and references in television shows, reports the Daily Mail. The bingo game has been proposed by the Sex Education Forum. It is designed to encourage children from as young… Read more »
Bingo partners share Mecca jackpot
Two friends have shared a £50,000 jackpot prize after winning at a bingo hall, reports the Halifax Courier. Beverley Tinkler, 60, and Debora Sturnam, 50, both received £25,000 at the Halifax Mecca Bingo Hall, after Beverley won £50,00 on a game of bingo and decided to share her winnings with her best friend. When the… Read more »
GP surgery manager jailed for stealing from practice to fund bingo habit
A GP surgery manager who stole almost £54,000 to fund her online bingo habit has been jailed, reports the East Anglian Times. April Piercy, 45, stole the funds from the GP surgery that she managed. She had worked at the Great Clacton Medical Partnership since 2001. However, since 2011, she created false invoices for locum… Read more »
New bingo site announced: Bingo 69
A new bingo site is to join the Live Bingo Network this August, Two Little Fleas can exclusively reveal. Bingo 69 – which will be run on Cozy Games software – is the first multi-lingual bingo site on the Live Network (LBN). The site has options for English and for Swedish, making it a unique… Read more »
Texas: new bingo technology to be introduced
There are plans to allow bingo halls in Texas to speed up the play of their games, in a move that may make it much easier for people to spend more money at halls. The proposal will see the introduction of card minders, small devices that “mind” electronic versions of paper bingo cards. These allow… Read more »
£6 million casino and bingo hall to open in Southend
A £6 million casino and bingo hall will open in Southend next month. The casino and bingo hall is expected to create new jobs, as well as bring some glitz and glamour to the Southend seafront. The 24-hour Grosvenor Casino and Mecca bingo hall is scheduled to open below the Park Inn Palace Hotel on… Read more »
Gala Bingo launches TV advert for their £150,000 50 ball launch
Gala Bingo has launched a new television advert for their new £150,000 50 ball game. This week, Gala Bingo’s television campaign is run on the theme of ‘This is how it feels to be a Gala winner’, which they have previously used. The advert shows Gala Bingo players of all ages enjoying the game online,… Read more »
Bingo couple celebrate golden wedding anniversary
A couple who originally met at a bingo hall are to celebrate their 50 year wedding anniversary in September. Marie and Tony Lines originally met at a bingo night in Oxhey, Hertfordshire. Mr Lines saw Marie across the bingo hall, and decided to ask her out, so he went up to her while she was… Read more »