December 2007 Archives
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The UK's bingo industry could be in real trouble due to bingo player numbers in just 12 months, killed off by the bingo hall smoking ban. A total of 20,000 UK bingo jobs are at risk unless the Government takes action, Bingo industry chiefs warned.
They revealed a third of the UK 548 bingo halls are under threat of closure.
Bingo giant Mecca Bingo has frozen all Bingo hall expansion plans and cancelled dividend payments to shareholders, with its share price halved compared to the same time last year.
Bingo halls have lost 600,000 players since the smoking ban on bingo halls in England and Wales. Smokers who remain are playing less because they spend time outside to smoke.
Before the ban, three million people were playing offline bingo in an average week. Now experts fear the industry could be wiped out in 2008. Steve Baldwin of the UK Bingo Association said: "It's frightening to think that a pastime bingo that has given pleasure to millions could disappear within a year."
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Film theatres are finding a new use for the big screens - as giant game systems that let hundreds of people play at the same time
Film theatres, mainly in Europe so far, are experimenting with turning their big screens into giant video game systems. It's a way of putting the cinemas to use during off-peak hours and adding new attractions to feature showings.
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Duke Street Capital has made an offer to buy MeccaBingo, the beleaguered offline and online bingo operator.
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Robert Graves, known to everyone as Mr Bob. Was credited with bringing bingo to Cumbria has died recently at the age of 91.
When 888 announced an agreement with Rank's online betting shop Blue Square to use its bookmaking capabilities to enable 888poker and 888roulette players to get a punt on the football or the horses without leaving for another website. There was talk of a merger and why not Mecca Bingo has been smacked hard by the smoking ban and a tie up with such an excellent online business could turn Mecca Bingo Online into something very serious. s yet their is no wider tie-up between the two companies, whose share prices have been depressed by 888's withdrawal from the US and Rank's loss of business at its Mecca bingo halls but with Genting and others piling into Mecca shares maybe we should watch this space.
The sale of Butlins, Odeon Cinemas, Pinewood filme-long disposal programme, Rank has little room for manoeuvre studios and Hard Rock cafe may have looked sensible at the time. Boss Ian Burke is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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In 2006 MSN announced that MSN UK launched MSN Bingo on the Bingos.co.uk platform. MSN Bingo Players could access MSNBingo by going to uk.msn.com and clicking on Games. "We are extremely proud to welcome MSN UK to our family of partners," said Dominic Mansour, CEO of the Euro Gaming Limited Group of companies, which operates Bingos.co.uk.
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StrandBingo carried out a customer survey after the ban and found 87% of their bingo players said the change on smoking had been positive.
This is the first time a UK Bingo hall has discoved an overwhelming number of bingo players now support the smoking ban.
With 2007 drawing to a close, Gala Bingo has announced the prize money given out so far as part of its High Five bingo promotion.
UK bingo players taking part in the bingo competition have scooped £2.5 million in total bingo prizes in the past three months, Gala Bingo claims.
Paddy Power Bingo are dumbfounded by the decision to ban their Man Breast Advert.
"We are completely astonished by the reaction of the London Underground to our advert," said a spokesman for Paddy Power Bingo.
Jackpotjoy.com has shelled out a record Deal No Deal jackpot of £965,728 to one lucky bingo player.
The site's luckiest ever winner is 27 year old Emira B from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire. She has been enjoying the Jackpotjoy bingo site for the past three years and has yet to take it all in. She definately Dealt correctly on the Deal or No deal game yesterday in fact she earned nearly four times what you could earn as a maximum on the Deal or No deal Noel Edmunds show from Endomol.
Four Mecca Bingo callers took to the stage of the prestigious Bingo Caller of the Year competition, which took place in London on 25th November at Mecca Wood Green.
The Mecca finalists included Mark Lunn from Mecca Wednesbury Cross, Blake Robson from Mecca South Shields, Will Willard from Mecca Cwmbran and James Cook from Mecca Fountain Park.
The callers performed in front of a packed house and a tough judging panel which included Emmerdale star Lorraine Chase.
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Proud mum Mandy celebrates her bingo jackpot win, for a super market shelf stacker Christmas came early.
Mandy Bunker won £10,635 on DailyStarBingo and according to the paper she has already spent her small fortune.
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GalaBingo, the UK bingo gaming company behind ever-popularonline bingo hall Gala Bingo, has signed a deal with WagerWorks in which the later will provide Gala Bingo with Monopoly, Wheel of Fortune, Elvis, The 50 000 Pyramid, The Price Is Right Bingo, Jeopardy and Cluedo, together with the recently released Mega Jackpots.
Gala Bingo Online actually raised profits but worried that Smoking ban and Tax could hit Bingo growth.
GalaBingo Online is a privately held online Bingo group which also has many offline bingo clubs. Government Bingo changes and charges could hit them hard in 2008 despite 2007 stellar results, changes such as the loss of Section 21 gaming machines and steep increases in VAT duty for Bingo.
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Gala Bingo full-year pre-tax profits are up over 10 per cent, but the Bingo group warned the smoking ban and the removal of lucrative gaming machines from their bingo clubs had impacted on growth.
The privately-held bingo group said it was very cautious about the wider bingo market conditions going into 2008 and would press the UK government for the abolition of VAT on bingo products. Gala Bingo claims there are some 100 bingo clubs whose survival was at stake across the UK but they do not envisage any Gala Bingo clubs closing.
From 1st June 2007 bingo players have been able to collect points each time they visit any one of the 170 Gala Bingo clubs nationwide around Britain.
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The High 5 Jackpot has been simultaneously won by 2 different Gala Bingo Clubs.
The jackpot of £508,914.76 was won on the number 5 on 50 calls on the afternoon of 26th November, and was shared by two winners and their clubs Gala Bingo Salford and Gala Bingo Rhyl. The house prize of £3,150 was also shared by the two individual winners. The two winners who called Full House on the number 5 each went home £128,803.68 better off, including their share of the house prize.
Metro, one of the UK's leading newspapers and part of Associated Newspapers Limited, has launched a range of online gaming products through its website, metro.co.uk the most exciting of which is Metro Bingo.
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Unlike bingo balls used in regular bingo halls, online bingo sites use a random number generator. Online bingo halls usually offer online casino games as well as the bingo, but the actual bingo play works almost exactly like playing online poker or online casino games, with everything being virtual. One notable feature of online bingo is the chat functionality. Successful online bingo sites foster a sense of community and interaction between players.
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Bingo, casino and online betting firm Mecca Bingo scrapped its final dividend payment on Wednesday, blaming ongoing problems in its bingo and casino businesses.
Rank said its MeccaBingo revenues in the 14 weeks since Sept 1. were down, admissions were down and spend per head was down.
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Gala Bingo's new High 5 Game has had its first big winner in Fenton. Margaret Ann Venables, a mother of four, scooped a whopping £874,208 and shared it will all the members of her local club making her a heroine and her local club, the luckiest in the country!
A mum of five from Harrogate copied a friend's credit card details to flitter away over £1,100 in just three days at an online bingo hall.
During the case it transpired the mother of five had maintained a website for her friend's partner and had only received, as a payment, a tumble dryer worth less than £150. She then devised the plan to take her own form of "payment".
Her friend had provided the credit card details so the mum of five could book a hotel room for herself and her partner. At this point she noted the details and went on to use them to fund her online gambling.
Three days later the transactiosn were noted and the police became involved. The mum of five has been ordered to pay back £500 of the money illegally obtained.
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A 46-year-old woman from Falkirk has won £17,500 playing bingo. And she is sticking to an agreement she made, by sharing the money with the friend with whom she plays at the Gala Club in Kerse Lane.
The lucky winner says she was very shocked when she realised how much she had won.
Research into social interaction in local communities, conducted by The Henley Centre, has highlighted a steady decline in community.
Traditional forms of social interaction are important for communities but are under threat, according to a new survey commissioned by The Bingo Association.
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Since 1996, one 72-year-old Scunthonian woman has played at the local Gala Bingo hall once a week, reports National Bingo her regular attendance paid off on Sunday December 2nd, as she scooped the UK bingo jackpot of £17,500.
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The Sutton Riva Bingo Club first opened its doors in May - and has rounded off its opening year by scooping the UK bingo jackpot, National Bingo reveals. A 30-year-old member of the club became the first big winner since it opened recently, with a £45,000 national jackpot win.
Amy Ramsdale, a 20-year-old student nurse from Wigan, convinced her mum to go to the local Gala Bingo club with her, reports National Bingo. But her mum had to buy the tickets, as Amy admits she had no money to pay for entry herself "I begged my mum to go to bingo that night but she had to pay for me because I didn't have any money," she tells the game's operating body.
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Main Entry: bo·nus
Pronunciation: \ˈbō-nəs\
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, literally, good -- more at bounty
Date: 1773
: something in addition to what is expected or strictly due:
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St. Monica's Church Blackpool is holding a Christmas prize bingo session next week. The church in St Monica's Way, Little Marton, will be inviting people to put their eyes down on Sunday December 9.
PremierBingo operations manager Mike Lowe has warned of an uncertain future for the industry if the UK government does not change the current tax laws for the UK bingo industry. Speaking today, Lowe said the bingo industry must be given a fairer system of taxation, adding that, along with the smoking ban, the laws have had a dramatic effect on the sector.
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Casino group Genting took a 10 per cent stake in the troubled bingo hall operator Mecca Bingo.
Media-savvy Emmy Matthews and Ed Stevens wanted a formidable £200,000 for a 10% stake in Gaming Alerts, a service that offers users up-to-date offers, alerts and information on poker, bingo, casino and betting matters.
The Mecca Bingo club in Bolton joined forces with a Bolton Hospice and raised over £600 for the hospice.
For every new member that signed up throughout the day the Mecca Bingo Club donated £2, thats a whooping 320 new members in one day raising a total of £640 for the hospice.
The Bolton Hospice had come out tops in a recent survey by the Bingo Club as the most popular local cause.
Fundraising Director at the hospice, Debra Graham said " Things aren't like they used to be at Bingo when I went with my nan, all the facilities are completely up to date, I was really impressed."
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