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Bingo Player Misses Out On Win In Live Bingo Hall

A bingo player has recently lost out on a £1,000 bingo win when the caller did not hear her call ‘bingo’ before the next number was called. This is always a potential problem at live bingo halls, as callers may not be paying enough attention to catch a call of ‘bingo’ before moving on.

Elaine Prendergast, a 63-year-old player at a live Gala Bingo hall, was the victim of this unfortunate mistake, but the rules of live bingo halls mean that she is unlikely to see her £1,000 jackpot. She says that she called ‘bingo’ early and loudly, with other players and the bingo steward backing her up, but the protocols of live bingo insist that claims are void once the caller has moved on.

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New bingo hall to open in Somerset

Somerset is set to get a new bingo hall with the Kingsway Bingo Club planned to open in Frome. The new bingo club is planned for the Kingsway Precint, in the premises of a former nightclub.

The backers of the new bingo club have already bought an 11 year lease of the premises. They have also applied for a license with the Mendip District Council, with local town council and police already saying that they have no objection to the new bingo club.

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Bingo Number Nicknames

During a bingo games the bingo callers will often use fun nicknames for the numbers. Usually they will state both digits individually then the whole number, such as “Two and One, Twenty-One”, and then follow it with the nickname.

Below you will find some of the most common number nicknames used in the UK.

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Attendance soars at Gala bingo hall

The Gala bingo hall in Westfield Road, Peterborough, is beating the recession with attendances increasing 400% in a year. They have even had to turn customers away on some occasions.

Special offers and promotions have helped increase numbers, according to the managers, which dropped to as low as 100 after the smoking band was implemented. Now they can get as many as 1,500 on the special free bingo promotion nights.

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New super bingo hall to open in UK

A new “super” bingo centre in Beeston, worth £5.5m, will be the first of it’s kind in the UK.

Set to open on May 14 2009, Mecca will include a traditional bingo hall and a bar and will also feature live entertainment at night and computerised touch-screen bingo machines. Community groups are also being invited to use the facilities to hold meetings, such as Weight Watchers.

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Huge National Game Bingo Win of £1,167,795

Soraya Lowell, a cleaner from Hamilton, has won the biggest ever National Game bingo win, a whopping £1,167,795.

While playing at the Club 3000 bingo hall in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Mrs. Lowell won the National Game’s Platinum Jackpot by getting a full house on number 90. This jackpot is even bigger than the £1.1 million won in January by Christine Bradfield, and Mrs. Lowell has already planned to share the money with her bingo partner and neighbour, Agnes O’Neill.

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Online Bingo Growth Means Bigger Prizes

The ‘Bingo in the Digital Age: Global Market Assessment and Forecasts’ study, released by the media analyst Screen, suggests that despite the global economic downturn online bingo may be the fastest growing sector of gambling.

Some of this increase may be attributed to the closure of some physical bingo halls in the UK. In addition, high taxation and anti-smoking laws could also have contributed to an increase in online bingo players.

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