Posts Tagged ‘bingo’

February 17, 2011

SuperGran’s Super Bag to be auctioned

SuperGran Ann Timson said she wants to auction her bag and give the proceeds to charity, speaking on an American TV show. Timson whacked armed robbers with her hand bag and drove them away preventing them from looting a jewellery store, recently, to become a hero known around the world. Ann Timson, known to us [...]

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February 10, 2010

Bingo helps pensioner recover from depression

Bingo, the game that is such a favourite across the UK in its traditional form and now equally so in its online avatar, turned out to be just what the doctor ordered for Jill Gemmell, a 67 year old pensioner from Derby. Jill had been suffering from severe depression but thanks to this simple numbers [...]

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August 19, 2009

I’m backing bingo campaign

An MP in Scotland is supporting a the notion of a Bingo tax freeze on land based bingo halls.The Liberal Democrat MP for the the constituency of Edinburgh West has come out in support of land based bingo operations about the additional taxes that these bingo halls have to pay. Apparently he has signed an [...]

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December 10, 2008

Who plays online bingo

Who plays bingo?  And who plays online bingo? Bingo is quite stereotyped and you might already be thinking of the granny and grandpa crowd as an answer to the first question.  But, don’t answer to quickly as the truth may surprise you. Almost everyone plays bingo or online bingo at some time in their life. [...]

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November 26, 2008

An Insight into the Word “Bingo”

The word Bingo refers to various games such as card games, Housie, online Bingo or Scrabble. In the U.K. Bingo is associated with Housie, a game in which printed tickets of 15 numbers on three lines are used. Similarly in the U.S. Bingo is a game wherein a printed ticket of randomly generated 5 x [...]

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June 26, 2008

UK Government boost for land bingo

The UK government’s sports minister Gerry Sutcliff has announced that the amount of £500 jackpot slot machines that will be allowed to be place in any one bingo hall will increase from four to eight. Addressing the UK’s House of Commons, Sutcliffe claimed the increase is a one-off measure aimed at helping the bingo industry [...]

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