November 2008 Archives
With more and more online bingo sites now offering mobile bingo I thought it would be interesting to see who actually offers it although hand on heart I have to say it really doesn't appeal to me, I much prefer my game of bingo to be online. Now whilst looking into this I got a little side tracked by a rather interesting website offering mobile bingo with a difference.
Continue reading Mobile Bingo.
One lucky bingo player scooped £350,000 after only her third time of playing the game at a Gala Bingo hall in Freshfield Way, Brighton. The Gala Bingo big winner hails from Brighton and is a 42 year old woman who has asked to remain anonymous. The winner was only at her local bingo hall with a friend who needed someone to attend with her and was shocked when she scooped the prize on the High 5 game.
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Online Bingo is one of my favourite pastimes but I must admit it can cause me more stress then my little old heart can take sometimes as I sit here screaming at the screen praying to the gods of the bingo balls that the one last number drops into place. I have suffered from the dreaded 1TG so many times; This December however Ladbrokes Bingo has a cure for me in their Laddies Lucky Loft.
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For quite a while now the Dream Bingo super promo has been running but today I was sent an email saying that they have moved the goal posts a little. Previously the promo was run that when they hit a certain number of deposits a new prize was awarded to the player who was drawn when a milestone was reached but the Dream Bingo super promo changes means that the next milestone will be played differently.
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I'm not the type of person who reads the Daily Mail but I might make an exception tomorrow and buy it but only because it contains a free scratch card for the Daily Mail Christmas Cracker and my chance to win some free cash from Daily Mail Bingo. Saturday 29th November you will get one free scratch card in the Daily Mail and this scratch card is valid until 1st January 2009 from what I have read.
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A new online bingo site has launched with the name BestDamnBingo and of course I was interested to find out if the site lived up to the standard the site name implies. I found out about this new bingo site through a mailer they sent although I have no clue as to how they got my email address. The mailer contains details of $25 free for all new players so let's take a look and see if BestDamnBingo like up to their name!
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When I'm playing online bingo at Foxy Bingo I tend to listen to Foxy Radio because the offer some great promotions exclusive to their Foxy Radio listeners and one of those is the Tombola at Foxy Radio. The next game of Tombola at Foxy Radio is this Thursday at 8pm and it's a rollover with £300 up for grabs so if you haven't tuned in yet then maybe this Thursday you could pop your Foxy Radio cherry?
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Yet another woman's magazine has joined the ranks in the JackpotJoy powered online bingo sites and this time it's the turn of SoapLife Bingo. What always astounds me about this type of magazine launching an online bingo site is that none of the JackpotJoy sites offer anything different than each and every site using the platform. When you visit SoapLife Bingo the only difference is the top banner.
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One online bingo site is giving away a Mini Cooper on 1st January 2009 and not to be outdone the 888ladies advent calendar sees a multitude of prizes being offered from 1st December until Christmas Eve with the big prize in the last game being a Mazda 2 1.3. There is a little confusion at 888ladies as to the day the big game takes place, the promotional page says Christmas Eve at 10pm yet reading the T&C's for the promotion it says 26th December 2008 at 10am?
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Didn't I say recently that we are going to see some great bingo promotions over the next month in the run up to Christmas? Well I have just read the news of one of the big promotions and you have a chance to win a Mini at Wink Bingo on 1st January 2009 at 7pm and each ticket for this big game costs £10; the prize is valued at over £13,000 and it's a brand new Mini Cooper.
Continue reading Win a Mini at Wink Bingo.
The news broke a little while ago that Bingos.com has moved into the Swedish bingo market and along with the news came many reports of the number of land based bingo halls in Sweden; over one hundred according to some. This made me wonder how many online bingo halls I could find for the Google search term "Swedish Bingo". I have already reviewed a few online bingo sites that are Swedish but here I will look at some of the sites I found.
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One online bingo site is offering up the chance to win one million Nectar points in their latest bingo promotion and one lucky player will become an overnight millionaire thanks to the Gala Bingo Nectar points promotion! It could be you! And all you need to do is play one game of bingo every day from now until Christmas Eve at Gala Bingo.
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Rumour around the online bingo industry is that Virgin Bingo are planning on breaking away from the St Minver network and launching their own bingo platform. The Virgin Bingo rumour is just that, a rumour but I am hearing it more and more via the bingo drums and this move would definitely be an interesting one if it goes ahead. I as a bingo player will be rushing to try the new bingo platform!
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Every now and then The Boss and I have a bit of a catch up on the phone and todays saw him set a challenge for me. Of all the bingo adverts on our television screens at the moment which do I think cost the most to make? Well I have no clue so I want you guys to help me out by choosing which of the following bingo adverts you think cost the most to make?
Continue reading Bingo adverts.
We are reported to be in a recession and each of us supposedly feeling the credit crunch so it was with interest I read an article on the news page for STV about "bingo winning in the recession". STV is a Scottish news channel who also have their own bingo site, STV Bingo, so the report is based in Scotland but whatever the region or country it's always good to read about bingo booming.
Continue reading STV report bingo is winning.
I'm not big on the industry news when it comes to bingo halls but was interested to read about the Gala Coral Group's decision to leave the Bingo Association, the main body behind all the bingo halls. The Bingo Association represents the land based bingo business and has been instrumental in fighting against the double taxation levied against bingo so what was behind Gala Bingo leaving the Bingo Association?
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Many online bingo sites are preparing their Xmas bingo promotions and of the hundreds of online bingo sites available to us as bingo players many will offer Christmas Hampers as prizes. The promotion for Xmas at Bingo Magix offers just that as a prize in their latest bingo promotion and entry is gained simply for making a deposit at their online bingo site from now until 21st December.
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For those of you that don't know the voice behind the balls at InterBingo is none other than Mark Folan. Who I hear you asking? Exactly - I had no clue who he was either before I Google'd his name! Anyway, Mark Folan calls the numbers when you play online bingo at InterBingo and he is also the face on the TV adverts for this bingo site as well. I was interested to see the new InterBingo advert on YouTube featuring the man himself.
Continue reading New InterBingo advert.
Did you know about the 888ladies blog? I didn't, it was something I stumbled across today when trying to find details of the latest bingo promotion from the 888ladies bingo site. Of course, being a blogger myself, I had to take a nose around to see what the 888ladies blog had to offer. At the time of writing about it the latest post on the 888ladies blog was about getting the 888ladies fairy released from prison!
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This promotion started on 10th November but don't worry, you haven't missed out, it continues right up until the 7th December and to enter you just need to play bingo for your chance to get in on the Money Spinner at William Hill Bingo. Throughout the promotion period you can win tickets for the big playoff game taking place on 14th December.
Continue reading Money Spinner at William Hill Bingo.
One of the newest online bingo sites to hit our screens is a site that offers players the chance to play in dollars and after compiling the review I thought I'd take a look at one of my favourite features of any online bingo site, the chat games. At any online bingo site I like to see a wide variety and the Bingo Flash chat games certainly offer that.
Continue reading Bingo Flash chat games.
Quite accidentally I stumbled upon the fact that Daily Express Bingo have dropped their welcome bonus of £25 free to all new players. Daily Express Bingo isn't a site I visit very often but it is one that previously held one of the most impressive no deposit welcome bonuses as well as a 300% first deposit cash match on first deposits. However now there is no welcome bonus and your first deposit gets just 100% cash match.
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TFI Friday with Foxy Bingo promises to be a great day for all their online bingo players because there are promotions galore throughout the day from free bingo games to bingo points a plenty being given away. My question to you is why are you sat here reading this and not logged into Foxy Bingo taking advantage of all the great promotions?
Continue reading TFI Friday with Foxy Bingo.
We have seen many online bingo sites over the last month or so offering free bingo to their bingo players and we all love these games but sometimes the prizes aren't all that great depending on the site offering free bingo. Have you heard of the Wink Bingo Frisky Fridays? I hadn't before today but I really like the concept of this type of free bingo.
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Have you tried the new game at Tombola Bingo? I only discovered it yesterday and already I am hooked on Rollercoaster at Tombola Bingo. It could be that I am a bit of a sadist but it makes me laugh how the rollercoaster goes round the loop and someone falls out - I hope that no one calls the Health and Safety people about Tombola Bingo and their new game!
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Over the last few days I have noticed that more and more of the CashCade sites are upgrading their home pages in keeping with the bigger standalone sites under the CashCade hat and the latest is the Sunday Mail Bingo makeover. The new home page looks far more appealing than the previous offering and most definitely holds more appeal to me as an online bingo player.
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When I first wrote about Bingo Radio I was corrected when I mentioned that it was part of Game Village Bingo but recently, as a member of Bingo Radio, I was sent an email telling with the news that Bingo Radio moves to Game Village Bingo. Why then was I corrected on the information I provided? I hate being told I'm wrong only to find that in fact my instincts are right!
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If you didn't know already Elton John is currently on a World Tour and one online bingo site recently offered tickets to see him in gay Paris but today I bring you news of your chance to see Elton John with Littlewoods Bingo. The tickets on offer in this bingo promotion are for his concert at the Manchester MEN Arena on Sunday 21st December.
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The bingo caller over at Bingo Café has been named by their online bingo players as Joe and he is planning on throwing a huge dinner party for all his friends but he needs the players at Bingo Café to help collect all of the ingredients. Without the ingredients Joe won't be able to throw the Bingo Café Dinner Party; if you help him out then you could be taking a share of the secret stuffing.
Continue reading Bingo Café Dinner Party.
It was only recently I was talking about the influx of online bingo sites launching on the St Minver network and now it would appear it is the turn of the Globalcom (888Holdings) network. Just two days ago I spoke about BingoWags and today I bring news of another online bingo site on the same platform, Glorious Bingo. Do you need me to cover the same ground as with previous sites on the same platform?
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Although I never really got into the whole Bingo Night Live hype I was shocked to see that Saturday 15th November saw the show, Bingo Night Live cancelled! However one of the players on this free bingo show wasn't complaining as Dave from Blackwood took home the final £25,000 Golden Jackpot and I bet he was smiling like a Cheshire cat! Bingo Night Live launched onto our screen 5 months ago and has given away over £500,000 in the time that they have been on air.
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I was recently pointed in the direction of a new online bingo site called Bingolore and was shocked to find a site with a distinct Indian feel to it. Shocked because this is the first time I have seen such an offering to the online bingo industry and a little confused when I took the time to register an account and check out the bingo chat rooms.
Continue reading Bingolore Bollywood Bingo.
How do you fancy winning a share of £13,000 for nothing? Well that's exactly what is on offer in the Mecca Bingo Golden Ticket promotion and playing the along is simple to do. All depositing players can generate a Mecca Bingo Golden Ticket just by logging into their online bingo accounts and although the game started on 5th November 2008 it's not too late to take part.
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Many online bingo sites around the World Wide Web offer bingo chat games at their sites but you will also find chat tournaments as well. The different between the two is that chat games run one every game where chat tournaments tend to run over a couple of hours. There are quite a few bingo tournaments at PaddyPower Bingo and here I'll give you examples.
Continue reading Tournaments at PaddyPower Bingo.
Have you been rushed off your feet trying to beat the Christmas rush and get all your Christmas presents early? Could you do with a little treat for yourself? Well one online bingo site might have a promotional prize that could sooth your aching feet and relax your tensed muscles. The spa day from InterBingo could see you being pampered and getting ready for the joys of the January sales.
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A Buckingham Bingo hall in Walden has received a £10,000 fine as improvements to their standards were not made some nine months after one of their employees were burnt in a serious kitchen accident. Buckingham Bingo were fined after pleading guilty of failing to ensure the health, safety and welfare at work of their employees at the club in Ellesmere Retail Park.
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There is a lot happening over at William Hill Bingo this week and it all starts today according to the William Hill Bingo news I received by email today. The first of the news from William Hill is of No Lose Bingo which takes place tonight between 10pm and 11pm. You won't know which games are No Lose Bingo until the chat host announces them but you will get your money back if you don't win on those games.
Continue reading William Hill Bingo news.
This week a huge amount of money has been paid out to UK players one lucky Gala Coral fruit machine player took down a huge £2m plus win yes a £2 Million winner. A lucky Coral customer from Portsmouth just won a huge sum of money, playing MegaJackpots Cluedo - the jackpot of over £2 million was won from just a 50p line stake.
Continue reading GalaBingo Megajackpot Winner.
Having a little scout around the world of online bingo I stumbled upon a site called BingoWags and the name made me chuckle to myself. Wags is the term predominantly used for the wives and girlfriends of football players and I suppose as bingo loves we could all be BingoWags. Aren't we all wives or girlfriends of the online bingo game?
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Is it really only just over a month until Christmas? Where has the time gone? It only seems likes yesterday online bingo sites where offering barbeques as promotion prizes yet here I am about to tell you the details of the Tombola Bingo Christmas promotion! I can see my time blogging over the next month being entirely Christmas orientated.
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I've been watching the National Lottery advert with the slogan "Welcome to the Lotto way of thinking - Think Lotto" over and over and was racking my brains trying to think of what the song is behind it! And then it hit me like a brick - its Ooh La La by Rod Stewart and The Faces - now I can watch the advert in comfort without stressing over what the Think Lotto music is.
Continue reading Think Lotto music.
How are any of the online bingo sites making any money lately? The reason I ask is that this week we have free bingo at Foxy Bingo and today I can bring you news of more free bingo at Mirror Bingo. It was only a little while ago that Mirror Bingo did their first free bingo week and it obviously proved to be very popular amongst the players.
Continue reading More free bingo at Mirror Bingo.
This Friday our TV screens are going to be filled with Pudsey Bear as the annual Children in Need charity event takes place. I love the programme but the hubby refuses to watch it for some reason. I may just get him logged in for Children in Need with Foxy Bingo because it could make me £20,000 richer and what's even better about it is that Foxy Bingo will be making a huge donation to Children in Need in the process.
Continue reading Children in Need with Foxy Bingo.
Some online bingo sites offer a bingo forum for their members but with others there are only their home pages to promote all their latest bingo offers. I have however just found one offering something a little different; it's the Bingo Playground blog! Being a blogger myself I thought it would be interesting to take a read.
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How many times have you registered with an online bingo code or made a deposit and been asked for one of their bingo promotion codes if you have one? What are bingo promotion codes and where do you get them from? Recently one online bingo site provided promotion codes in many of the women's magazines offering £5 free at the site just for entering one of the bingo promotion codes.
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Foxy Bingo have a radio station and recently we saw the launch of Bingo Radio and this made me think - why doesn't Foxy Bingo run a game of Radio Bingo on their station? Let me explain the concept I have in mind and who knows Foxy HQ might see this and use the idea on Foxy Bingo Radio. Remember that if they do then you heard it hear first and all credit should be awarded to Betty Pandora ;)
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If you like the online bingo sites that use the Microgaming software then you will be impressed with 32 RedBingo. This site offers all new players a £10 free, no deposit required, welcome bonus so they can try the site for free before spending any of their hard earned cash and their first deposit bonus will earn a 100% cash match bonus of up to £100 with all subsequent deposits getting 25% up to £25.
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Yesterday saw the launch of a new game show on ITV and the interest here at onlinebingo.net comes from the sponsorship by William Hill Bingo. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the game format and how the game works. ITV Spin Star airs every weekday at 3.15pm (just in time for the kids coming home from school) and runs for 30 minutes.
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I'm not one to normally cover the advertising campaigns for the National Lottery but one caught my eye recently simply because of the catchphrase at the end of the advert; Think Lotto. Now the reason it grabbed my attention, apart from being quite a good advert, was that Think Lotto is very similar to the name of one online bingo site - Think Bingo. Do you think maybe Camelot caught onto this? It's more likely to be that it's a catchy slogan rather than relevant to the online bingo site of Think Bingo.
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It was only a couple of days ago that I heard the news the Paparazzi Bingo and Babingo were closing their doors and this morning my inbox was full of news of yet more online bingo closures. Busy Bingo and Winners Bingo close on 14th November; two more bingo sites to bite the dust on the St Minver network.
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It was only today that I realised I hadn't listed a review of probably the best known names in bingo, both online and land based. Mecca Bingo online is probably the best known online bingo site although it may not be to everyone's taste it was one of the first sites I tried in my novice days as an online bingo player. Mecca Bingo uses the Virtue Fusion software to power it's bingo games and new players get up to £50 free when a deposit is made.
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Many online bingo sites try and provide the best online bingo promotions to entice new players to their site and keep the interest of their already loyal players. One of the sites I have recently revisited has both daily and monthly specials on offer. The Gone Bingo offers consist mainly of bingo bonus money and not hard cash or great prizes that many offer.
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Yet another online bingo site has announced that is moving into the TV sponsorship side of media advertising and this time it's the turn of William Hill Bingo. We already see the likes of Foxy Bingo and Wink Bingo sponsoring the likes of Family Fortunes and the Jeremy Kyle show but the William Hill Bingo TV sponsorship is of a new programme to be launched, the Spin Star Show.
Continue reading William Hill Bingo TV sponsorship.
Saturday morning and the usual rubbish on my doormat that's been delivered by the postman; but wait there is something a little different in amongst the supermarket flyers and bills. This morning I found something from 888ladies on my doormat and not the usual type of thing I receive from many online bingo sites but something interactive.
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As someone who enjoys online bingo and is interested in domain names related to all things bingo I am often found looking through for new domains relating to online bingo. One of the ones that I thought might be interesting was called Bingo Monster and I was shocked to find the domain already registered and in use. Although the Nominet registry shows it for a UK individual the site is showing a game called "the attacks of the BingoIds".
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News reached my email inbox today about two online bingo closures; both of the sites closing are part of the St Minver which doesn't really surprise me as recently we have seen a huge influx of online bingo sites opening their doors on this network. I don't think you can flood the industry with the same network and software platform and not see some online bingo closures.
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As part of the network of sites that use the Globalcom bingo software Bingo Fabulous are able to offer great promotions to their online bingo community and part of that are the weekend specials that happen each and every month. In this article I will let you know some of the promotions at Bingo Fabulous and the weekend specials that you can be part of.
Continue reading Promotions at Bingo Fabulous.
Over the last few weeks we have seen many online bingo sites offering up free bingo games and news of a variation of this has just reached me. Free Bingo with William Hill Bingo is a slightly different way of offering free bingo than the norm; it comes in the form of No Lose Bingo and this means initially you do have to purchase tickets but the end result is still the same, free bingo!
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News reached me today of a new promotion from one of the best known names in bingo, Mecca Bingo. The Mini Mecca Monsters are back at Mecca Bingo and have mayhem on their mind for the 28th November where they plan on giving away £25,000 in 3 hours! With tickets in the 3 hour Mini Mecca Monster Mayhem costing just 25 pence these little beggars really are up to no good!
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The Posh Bingo promotions offer up some great prizes and chances to win bingo points that you can exchange for bingo money and some of the promotions are on going whilst others change from month to month. Like many sites on the Globalcom software platform Posh Bingo also offer the big £1 million coverall game three times a week.
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Christmas is officially on its way and what makes me say this? Well the influx of bingo promotions coming with a Christmas theme! The latest offers all bingo players to win £5,000 with 888ladies Bingo and I am sure it is the first of many great bingo promotions coming from sites across the world wide web. What great about this promotion as it isn't restricted to one winner but five!
Continue reading £5,000 with 888ladies Bingo.
Christmas is fast approaching and if you have children then you will have probably been presented with the list of toys they want for Christmas. If you haven't yet been given the list, expect it soon. One online bingo site wants to help with the cost of buying some of the things on the list because PaddyPower Bingo have toy vouchers up for grabs in their latest bingo promotion.
Continue reading PaddyPower Bingo toy vouchers.
Chatting with a colleague in the industry who is the oracle when it comes to white labelled online bingo sites he bought to my attention that the Blackpool Bingo site now redirects to Blackpool Club Bingo. So Blackpool Bingo is no more; the site is no longer there.
Continue reading Blackpool Bingo is no more.
The latest promotion from one bingo site is the Make a Wish with New Sun Bingo which is offering 10 of their online bingo players the chance to win £500 simply by emailing in their wish list. The New Sun Bingo want you to email them your wish list of things you would buy with £500 and you'll be getting one entry for every day that you play at the site from now until November 9th.
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I am always amazed by some of the names that many online bingo sites christen themselves and one of my all time favourites has to be Bingo Fabulous. It always makes me think of the program Absolutely Fabulous with Jennifer Saunders and her catchphrase "Fabulous Darling, Fabulous!" Bingo Fabulous is another online bingo site that has chose the Globalcom (888 Holdings) software to power the bingo games.
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I recently bought you news of a new free bingo game from onlinebingo.co.uk and I am here today to take my seat in the first meeting of SBA - for those of you that don't know this stands for Skill Bingo Anonymous. My name is Betty Pandora and I am addicted to Skill Bingo; I am constantly trying to beat the highest score and last week even had my name in position 1 for all of 12 hours!
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HJM Caterers have recently been taken over by Praesepe Plc, a London based management firm, after securing a £25 million deal. 31 stores in total were included in the sale and the news is that there is to be a new look to things. Reading through some of the industry news apparently Cashino launches new look for the old HJM Caterers which will be a high impact design to give them a stronger presence in the high street.
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What is it you imagine when you read the name of this online bingo site? I see ladies with tiaras and elbow length gloves along with butlers and gardeners. In fact Posh Bingo is an online bingo site that markets itself as "for bingo snobs". Interestingly enough it's one of the many sites online today that use the Globalcom (888Holdings) bingo software and is also home to the big £1 million coverall game.
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With the chill in the air and your heating turned up full to combat the cold you will definitely be seeing an increase in your bills in the next month but the latest promotion from one online bingo site could be helping you out. The BetFred Bingo Pay Your Bills promotion will see one lucky player having a month's bills paid thanks to this bingo site.
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Virgin Bingo are probably one of the best known branded online bingo sites and as such they have a reputation to maintain; they don't seem to have failed as yet in maintaining the good name of the Virgin brand as November at Virgin Bingo sees a couple of great offers on the bingo table for all their bingo players but if you love to participate in the bingo chat rooms then one of them could have been designed for you.
Continue reading November at Virgin Bingo.
Many online bingo sites will send their registered bingo players a bingo newsletter from time to time pointing out all the great upcoming promotions and news from their site. Some of the bingo newsletters I read with interest and often I am quite impressed with the offers from many online bingo sites. However every now and again an online bingo site sends me a newsletter and all I get from it is a giggle.
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Halloween is passed but Guy Fawkes night will soon be upon us and for us all as bingo players there will be even more bingo promotions being launched. The Foxy Bingo Bonfire night special is the second bingo promotion I have come across for Firework night and it promises to be explosive!
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