North Shields Bingo
A North Shields bingo win worth over £38,000 will be used by the winner to buy the ‘wedding of her dreams’. Mother of two Kelly Potts made a full house in 44 calls at the Gala Club in Wallsend, North Shields, on Tuesday 22 April.
29/4/08 - Click for full story
Bingo Sisters Sue
Two bingo-playing sisters have successful sued their other sister for reneging on an agreement to share a £50,000 jackpot won in June 2007. Unfortunately, their sister now claims to have already spent the money.
22/4/08 - Click for full story
Bingo in London
Bingo in London paid off for a 27 year old fast-food assistant when she won £73,000 playing at the Mecca Club in Dagenham Leisure Park. The winner, who is from Seven Kings in London, was so shocked by the win that she shed tears of joy.
8/4/08 - Click for full story
Platinum World Record
A Platinum bingo jackpot of £1,167,795 has been won by a National Bingo Game player in Scotland, set a new world record.
31/3/08 - Click for full story
Bingo Tax Burden
The Chancellor of the Exchequer failed to remove VAT from bingo in his budget on 12 March, but he did decide to increase licence duty on the amusement machines that many bingo players also like to play.
18/3/08 - Click for full story
Foxy Limo - a limousine for the day
You can win the Foxy Bingo Limo for an afternoon or an evening to go out with family or friends by telling them just why you deserve this treat (or you can nominate another bingo player).
14/3/08 - Click for full story
Speed Bingo : Bingo where every second counts
Speed Bingo is a new form of bingo that aims to make the game more exciting by speeding things up. The numbers in speed bingo are typically called at a rate of one per second, which is substantially faster than you would experience in a regular game of online bingo.
11/3/08 - Click for full story
Platinum Jackpot
The first Platinum Jackpot win in National Bingo Game history has been achieved by Christine Bradfield, a 53 year old mother of two from South Wales.
29/1/08 - Click for full story
Ann Summers Bingo ¦ Bingo gets sex appeal
Ann Summers Bingo may not be the kind of phrase you thought you would ever hear, but we can confirm that a new online bingo site really is operating under the Ann Summers brand.
28/1/08 - Click for full story
Bingo Caller of the Year 2007
The Bingo Caller of the Year competition for 2007 has been won by Mr Blake Robson from the Mecca Bingo club in South Shields. The competition was held at Mecca Wood Green on Sunday 25 November and four Mecca Bingo callers were in the running.
27/11/07 - Click for full story
Bride Wins Big
A bride has won £22,500 playing bingo just two weeks after she got married. Debbie Jolley, who is 22 and from Wigan, had been living in Australia for a year, and moved back to the UK shortly after marrying her Australian partner.
21/11/07 - Click for full story
Bingo and the Community
A new survey commissioned by the Bingo Association shows that traditional forms of social interaction in the community are not as popular as they used to be. 1,000 people from all over the UK were sampled for the survey, and although the majority said that community meeting places such as churches, pubs, clubs and libraries helped individuals to foster a sense of belonging, most participants admitted that they would prefer to stay at home and watch TV rather than socialise in a more traditional way.
31/10/07 - Click for full story
Foxy Gets a Grant
Foxy Bingo has launched a brand new game featuring popular astrologer Russell Grant. The game is called "Russell's Lucky Stars!" and is essentially the same as keno, which itself can be described as a bingo / lottery hybrid.
To play Russell's Lucky Stars, you need to select anything from 1 to 12 numbers from the range 1 to 80. You then click the PLAY button and the game will randomly select 20 balls from 80. The more numbers that you match, the more you win.
18/9/07 - Click for full story
The Big N
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The National Bingo Game Association is launching a major advertising campaign to promote its brand new "Big N" bingo game that can be played from 15 September, 2007. This campaign will be one of the first to take advantage of the relaxed Gambling Act 2005 regulations (which came into force on 1 September 2007) that allow gambling operators to advertise on television. It is expected that commercials for the Big N game will be broadcast on ITV1, Channel 4, Five and on a selected range of digital television channels. Advertisements will also appear in magazines and newspapers, as well as online.
4/9/07 - Click for full story
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