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Local postwoman jets off to Egypt to celebrate first anniversary A local postwoman is busy packing her suitcase after winning a dream holiday to Egypt worth over £1,000 on popular interactive bingo channel Gala TV. When Samantha Pickard from Maidstone tuned in to Gala TV, which is webstreamed on galabingo.com and broadcast on Sky and Freesat channel [...]

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Gala Bingo and Mecca Bingo will be going head to head later this month in a 5-aside football match to raise vital funds for their respective charities – Sue Ryder Care and Marie Curie Cancer Care. Despite the friendly rivalry between the leading bingo operators, the two Plymouth-based Gala Bingo clubs and Mecca Devonport will be working together on Monday, August 30 to ensure as much money as possible is raised for charity.

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Gala Bingo in Woking will be holding a charity Cricket match on Friday, 20 August to raise vital funds for the leading bingo operators’ nominated charity partner, Sue Ryder Care. All money raised from the match at Plough Lane, Wallington, which will see 40 employees fiercely compete for the title, will go directly to help Sue [...]

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Employees complete 24 hour mountain challenge for charity Gala Coral Group raised even more money for charity partner Sue Ryder Care last weekend after 29 employees completed the notoriously tough 3 Peaks Challenge. After smashing its initial target to raise £1m for the charity in 2009, Gala Coral Group pledged to raise a further £500k for the [...]

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Dominic Harrison, the chief executive of Gala Coral, parent company of Gala Bingo, has quit the company “to seek new career opportunities”. He will leave his job on October 1 and will be replaced in the short term by the company’s executive chairman, Neil Goulden, who was previously chief executive between 2004 and 2008. Harrison has [...]

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Popular bingo channel and online bingo site plan a month of summer specials This July galabingo.com and Gala TV will be sharing the thrills with a whole month jam packed full of big prizes, themed events, special offers and Happy Hour promotions. Every evening in July, £1k is up for grabs on galabingo.com as well as buy-one-get-one-free [...]

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Gala Coral, Britain’s largest betting and gaming group, today confirmed that it had successfully concluded a restructuring of the Group’s balance sheet, providing it with a strong platform for future growth. Mezzanine debt holders have converted their £558m holding into equity, and have injected a further £200m in cash, which will go to pay down senior [...]

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Sheree Murphy created a real stir in Fenton last night when she visited the Gala Bingo club to kick off the leading bingo operators’ World Cup Fever campaign. While her footballer husband, Harry Kewell, is away playing for the Australian team in South Africa, the Hollyoaks actress is fronting Gala Bingo’s World Cup ‘While the boys [...]

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While the boys are away, it’s time to play! Gala TV is offering the football fatigued a chance to win a luxurious new image worth an amazing £5k, as part of its World Cup ‘While the boys are away, it’s time to play’ campaign. Every Friday evening between 8-9pm throughout June, players of the popular live interactive [...]

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Lucky local wins £250,000 and shares half with rest of club It was a special night at Gala Bingo in Colchester on Wednesday, June 2, when a lucky local scooped an incredible £250,000 on the High 5 jackpot. The winner, a local lady from Colchester who has chosen to remain anonymous, was playing bingo with her friend [...]

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Europe’s leading gambling operator, Gala Coral Group, has secured a place in Business in the Community’s 2009 Corporate Responsibility Index. The Group’s award-winning community partnership with Sue Ryder Care, its strategy on environmental stewardship and leading position on responsible gambling, helped it to achieve Bronze in the UK’s leading voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility. The Index [...]

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While the boys are away, it’s time to play! Gala Bingo and galabingo.com has teamed up with Sheree Murphy to offer the football-fatigued an escape from all the discussions regarding Rooney’s right foot or England’s penalty shootout chances. While her World Cup footballer husband, Harry Kewell, is away playing for the Australian team in South Africa, the [...]

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Popular online bingo site launches £10k ‘May the cash be with you’ promotion Gala Bingo is using the force this month with its ‘May the cash be with you’ promotion. A fantastic £10k will be up for grabs on the side games of the popular bingo site throughout the month of May. To be in with a [...]

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Popular online bingo site launches £10,000 ‘April Cash Shower’ promotion Gala Bingo is showering its players with £10,000 in its great April ‘Cash Shower’ promotion. To be in with a chance of winning, all customers need to do is spend £5 playing any of the leading bingo site’s three mega jackpot slots – Monopoly, Cluedo and [...]

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Winners of March Madness bingo promotion announced galabingo.com has given away over £30,000 worth of huge prizes to the winners of its March Madness promotion. Twenty-five lucky winners scooped the fantastic prizes, ranging from a BMW Mini Cooper to £5000 to spend on diamonds at Tiffany, by playing bingo games, online scratchcards and Blackjack. Players were entered [...]

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Popular bingo channel reveals pampering habits of our pet-loving nation Britain’s pets are living the high life, according to research revealed today by Gala TV to celebrate the bingo channel’s eagerly awaited ‘Pet Hour’ during April. With half of the nation’s pet owners letting their furry friends sleep in their beds and another 49 per cent opting [...]

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£10,000 Cash Shower Gala Bingo will be showering you in cash this April in their £10,000 April Cash Shower.  A first prize of £1,000 Cash is up for grabs (see total prize fund right). To enter this promotion all you need to do is play any of Gala Bingo’s 3 Mega Jackpot Slots: Monopoly, Cluedo and [...]

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TV personality returns to popular online bingo channel as guest caller on Good Friday As a special Easter treat, Gala TV is welcoming Paul Ross back to the popular bingo channel on Good Friday to appear on a one-off celebrity bingo show. Having co-presented Gala TV’s popular ‘Hollywood Bingo’ show in February, movie buff Paul will be [...]

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If you win Gala Bingo’s top prize, you and a friend will be whisked to the O2 with VIP access and some of the best seats in the house! Gala Bingo will also pay for overnight accommodation in a Luxury 5* Star Hotel and dinner at one of London’s top restaurants. Alternatively, take the £3500 [...]

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In Wednesday's budget announcement, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alastair Darling confirmed that bingo duty would be cut from 22% to 20% at the end of this month. This action was outlined in the pre-budget report.

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Mother’s £28k win enables her to visit grandchildren in New Zealand Easter came early in Merseyside when one lucky lady found she had won nearly £29k on leading online bingo site, galabingo.com. Such a windfall would be a fantastic treat for any family but this has been extra special for this St Helen’s resident who wishes to [...]

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Leading bingo operator makes positive steps to being more sustainable In an industry first, Gala Bingo will be printing all of its bingo books on certified Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) paper from early April 2010. Gala Bingo is the first bingo company to address the environmental impact of its paper tickets and this green initiative sees Gala [...]

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Gala Bingo has plenty of promotions to keep players interested during the remainder of this month. One of the special promotions is the Live Blackjack Bonanza!

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Gala Coral, the operator of one of Britains biggest and most recognisable bingo halls, Gala Bingo has secured its financial future after lenders to the bingo operator agreed to a deal that will reduce Gala Coral's debt from £2.6billion to £1.85billion.

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A woman from Hounslow has picked up an incredible £253,000 prize at the Hounslow branch of Gala Bingo. The winner, who preferred to remain anonymous, had an incredible run of luck when playing at the Staines Road branch of Gala Bingo. First she hit her full house for £3,000, and at the same time she hit the "High 5" jackpot, which catapulted her winnings up to £128,000.

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Gala TV is welcoming This Morning's fashion expert John Scott to the studio during March to bring viewers all the latest fashion news and help with those style quandaries and frock nightmares. John will kick off this Friday, March 5 by discussing Oscar glamour in honour of this Sunday's world famous glamorous ceremony.

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As 27th February was the luckiest day on Gala Bingo in 2009 and they gave away more money to their players on that day than any other last year, Gala Bingo are renaming Saturday as ‘Gala Lucky Day'. To celebrate Gala Bingo are playing a series of ‘lucky 7' games across the site and on Gala TV.

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Popular bingo channel provides the behind the scenes gossip on the awards season To celebrate the award season, Gala TV is welcoming Paul Ross, Dean Piper and Ashley Pearson to spill the beans on who they're tipping for the hotly contested Academy Awards and all the Tinsel Town gossip.

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Lucky player scoops galabingo.com’s cashpot A lucky lady from Dartford has had all her dreams come true after winning more than £90k from just a 5p stake on Gala Bingo. Initially the 50-year-old single mother, whose chat name on the leading online bingo site is ‘theberry’, wasn’t aware she’d hit the ‘Cash Climber’ jackpot while playing in [...]

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The deal for the main lenders at Gala Coral, the casino, bingo hall and betting shop operator, to relinquish control of the company to a group of hedge funds and investors is getting closer. The deal, which is likely to be approved within two weeks would see the hedge fund group take control of 75 per [...]

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Not satisfied with conquering Everest and holding the world's highest ever game of bingo, Gala Coral staff have now set themselves the challenge of raising an additional £500,000 in 2010; with the aim of bringing total fundraising efforts for Sue Ryder Care to £1.5m.

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Leading bingo operator Gala Bingo is launching a fabulous new session to offer its players even greater value in its clubs, online at galabingo.com and on its popular interactive broadcast channel Gala TV. Called ‘The Main Event', the new session will take place Monday to Thursday from 18 January during the afternoons and evenings.

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Brits will be making their own luck in 2010, according to new research revealed today by leading online bingo site, Gala Bingo. With a whopping 91 per cent of the nation hoping this year will be luckier than 2009, Gala Bingo has discovered 84 per cent of us will be using the power of thought and a positive mental attitude (PMA) to help make 2010 a lucky year.

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Gala Bingo discovers positive thinking is key to a lucky 2010 Cheryl Cole is the face of Lady Luck, according to a survey released today by leading online bingo site - Gala Bingo When the site, which pays out more than £65million per month, asked the nation if luck was a lady who would she look like, Geordie songbird Cheryl Cole topped the poll with daytime TV presenter, Holly Willoughby, securing a close second.

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The results of the prestigious UK Which Bingo Site of the Year 2009 awards has been announced and the top prize has been won by Ladbrokes Bingo. The site, which only finished 18th in the awards in 2008, beat off Mecca Bingo, who finished second, and Wink Bingo in third place. Tombola Bingo finished fourth and [...]

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LONDON – The online bingo industry has seen explosive growth in 2009 so what does 2010 hold for bingo players and gaming executives? Bingo News explores the likely trends. 1. Bingo companies will continue to be acquired/merge – One of the final stories of the year was 888’s acquisition of Daub Ltd, owner of Wink Bingo [...]

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LONDON – Gala Bingo may soon be owned by an American private equity firm after a last minute attempt to take over the company. Apollo has made a proposal to inject £250 million into the company in return for a 50% share in Gala Coral, the parent company of Gala Bingo. The remaining 50% would go [...]

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Gala Bingo reveals the nation’s festive buying habits Our Aunties, Nans and Mothers are responsible for buying the worst Christmas gifts according to research revealed today by leading online bingo site – Gala Bingo. In the poll of 2,000 Brits to celebrate the great presents from Gala Bingo this Christmas of £150k in jackpots, it was discovered [...]

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The session, which was open to the public, saw 10 of the company's directors go ‘back to the floor' with a couple calling two dedicated charity games of bingo and the others serving food and drinks to customers in aid of Gala Coral's group charity Sue Ryder Care.

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Gala Bingo could make your Christmas very merry indeed with a huge £1,300 jackpot in their Festive Fun cash link game. Games take place at 19:55 throughout the week with tickets costing just 10p. Prizes are fixed as follows:

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Foxy Bingo scooped the eGaming Review Bingo Operator of the Year 2009 Award at last night’s ceremony in London’s Old Billingsgate. Foxy Bingo was one of six companies shortlisted for the highly coveted award. The judges commended them for their large number of networks, their extensive television spend and the launch of Cheeky Bingo. Their competitors for [...]

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The head of Gala Bingo has resigned to go and take a new job outside the bingo industry. Gala Coral’s managing director of bingo and casino, Simon Longbottom, has stood down and been replaced on a temporary basis by Mark Sergeant. Sergeant was Group Gaming Director of Gala Coral before his promotion and was appointed to [...]

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Gala Bingo will be giving its players the best Christmas presents by offering the chance to win three huge £50k festive jackpots throughout December for just a 5p ticket! Taking place every Friday evening (4, 11, 18 December) at 21:00hrs, the leading online bingo site will be running a special ‘Xmas Cracker Link Game', which will offer the following prizes:

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Bingo fan Catherine Whitehead hit the jackpot with a full house when she found love while playing on her favourite website - Gala Bingo. Thanks to the chat rooms on the leading bingo operator's website, the 38-year-old's life has been totally transformed and she's now busy planning her wedding!

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Six companies have been shortlisted for the Bingo Operator of the Year Award in the 2010 eGaming Review sponsored event. The shortlisted companies are Cashcade (Foxy Bingo), Gamesys (Jackpot Joy Bingo), Ladbrokes Bingo, Spacebar Media (Wink Bingo), Tombola and William Hill Bingo. Two of the shortlisted sites run on Virtue Fusion software (Ladbrokes Bingo and WIlliam Hill [...]

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A lucky lady from Abergele, Wales, has had all her dreams come true after winning more than £67k from just a 25p bet on Gala Bingo. The winning player managed to hit the jackpot on the leading online bingo site's popular ‘Galaxy Bingo' side game.

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Bingo companies feature prominently in the Power 50 rankings compiled by leading gambling industry magazine eGaming Review. Party Gaming, parent company of Party Gaming and the new owner of Cashcade, who run Foxy Bingo, Cheeky Bingo, Little Big Bingo, Think Bingo and Bingo Scotland, was highest on the list at no 2. Six of the top ten [...]

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Gala Bingo’s parent company, Gala Coral, is getting closer to agreeing a debt restructuring deal that will see banks reduce money owed by around £540 million. The debt-for-equity restructuring will remove some of the pressure on Gala Coral, who have been in lengthy negotiations with their bankers over the more than £2 billion of debt on [...]

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A group of die hard bingo lovers are currently in training to prepare for the world's toughest game of bingo - at 17,500 ft. Next month, 24 dedicated bingo enthusiasts will tackle Everest, dabber in hand, in an attempt to smash the record for the World's Highest Game of Bingo. The intrepid trekkers will face dehydration, altitude sickness and deep vein thrombosis as they take part in a bingo pilgrimage to Everest's Base Camp - not to mention frostbitten fingers and toes.

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As Gala Bingo TV reaches its third birthday, the popular interactive live bingo channel will be giving viewers the chance to join in the celebrations with a special ticket promotion on Sunday, October 4. To mark the great day and ensure the party goes with a swing, all tickets purchased on Gala Bingo TV between 6-10pm will be ‘buy three and get one free!'

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It seems Gala Bingo TV's viewers can't get enough of all the latest celebrity gossip, so the hugely popular ‘Showbiz Bingo' will be making a comeback on the live bingo channel throughout October. The eagerly awaited celebrity-based show will see leading columnists including the Sunday Mirror's ‘Mr Showbiz' Dean Piper and Heat magazine's Lucie Cave revealing all the latest ‘hot off the press' news and gossip.

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DUDLEY, WEST MIDLANDS – Gala Bingo is to close its bingo hall in Castle Hill, Dudley, taking the total number of bingo halls it has closed this year to nine. The company said it had received an offer for the premises and that staff were being consulted about the closure. Staff would be offered a job [...]

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Players at the Gala Bingo club in Edinburgh Meadowbank shared a £92,115.42 win on Saturday night after hitting the High 5 jackpot. One lucky woman won £41,000 for hitting the jackpot while the remaining cash were shared among the 438 bingo players also playing in the same bingo hall. They picked up just under £100 each [...]

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All you have to do is deposit £10, quoting bonus code WINSOME. Once you have spent your £10 playing on your favorite bingo or side games and your free £1 will automatically go into your account giving you an extra 10% to play with!

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Gala Bingo is launching a fundraising ‘Everest' link online bingo game to support its team of intrepid employees who are gearing up to trek to Everest Base Camp for charity in October. It is hoped the extreme challenge, which will see a 24-strong team of employees, trek 75 miles and ascending 2,700 metres up the world's highest mountain, will raise £100k for Gala Coral's group-wide charity Sue Ryder Care.

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All you have to do is deposit and spend £5, quoting the relevant bonus word below, between 22nd - 28th and Gala Bingo will pick 20 lucky winners every day. If you're a lucky winner then we will credit your account with £15 to go towards your broadband bill. You can enter every day so if you're not a winner one day come back and try again!

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The new Rollaball jackpot has arrived at Gala Bingo with lots of cash to be won and the best bit? Everyone wins! This is a brand new Gala Bingo Jackpot where you win and everyone in your club wins - great! All you have to do is win a full house in a Rollaball game within 32 balls to win your half of the climbing jackpot and everyone else gets to share the other half.

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Gala Coral’s gaming director, Dan Phillips, has left the company to join gaming software company Chartwell Technology. Phillips was one of the leading people in Gala Coral’s online gaming division where he was Gaming Director in charge of of casino, bingo, TV and poker operations. Phillips, who will remain based in the UK, will be VP Operations [...]

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Throughout August Gala Bingo is turning up the heat offering its players four dedicated weeks of great promotions featuring guaranteed jackpots, free cash and great chances to win.

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Gala Bingo could become a stand alone company as part of a restructuring planned by its lenders. Currently Gala Bingo is part of the Gala Coral group, which also owns a large chain of high street betting shops and casinos across the UK. According to press reports, the Royal Bank of Scotland, who is one of the [...]

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Every Monday - get 10% back on losses! Play any game on a Monday at Gala Bingo and get 10% back on your game play losses up to £100! All games are included in this promotion, and you'll get your cash back on the following Tuesday.

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An announcement that Party Gaming is buying Cashcade, the parent company of Foxy Bingo, Cheeky Bingo, Bingo Scotland and Think Bingo, is expected within days. A source close to the deal told Bingo News that they were “days away” from completing the deal and that while the management teams had agreed the terms of the sale [...]

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A Cambridge bingo hall that closed two months ago has been occupied by squatters. The Gala Bingo Hall in Hobson Street, Cambridge closed on May 25 was squatted on Monday 27 July by Occupy Cambridge, a self-described group of “squatters, anarchists, revolutionists, land rights types and general social misfits”. The Gala Bingo Hall is now owned by [...]

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“The boss of Mecca Bingo in Gloucester has attacked his local MP over the politician’s failure to stick up for bingo in a parliamentary vote. Paul Hornigold, manager of Mecca Bingo in Eastgate Street, Gloucester, said Gloucester MP Parmjit Dhanda had agreed to support the city’s bingo hall; but when it came to a vote on [...]

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Market research specialists Mintel have published their latest report on the UK bingo market. The report, titled “Bingo – UK – April 2009″, examines the effect of the smoking ban has had on UK bingo halls and how much it has been affected by the economic downturn. It also looks at the extent to which online [...]

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Bingo players in Pitsea, Essex will still be able to play bingo twice a week despite the imminent closure of their local Gala Bingo hall. Bowers Sport and Social Club in Crown Avenue, Pitsea is hoping for a boom in player numbers for their regular Sunday and Tuesday bingo sessions. The Pitsea Gala Bingo hall on the [...]

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Gala Bingo will close five bingo halls and cut 300 jobs in order to reduce costs. 120 jobs will go after the bingo clubs at Gala Bingo Hull St Stephens, Gala Bingo Port Glasgow, Gala Bingo Leven, Gala Bingo Pitsea and Gala Bingo Aldridge are closed in the next two months; a sixth bingo club – [...]

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To ramp up the heat this summer Gala TV welcomes ex Big Brother housemates to present the show every Sunday at 8pm. Craig Phillips will launch the month of ‘Housemate Bingo’ on 5th July – an exclusive new show on the popular live bingo channel, Gala TV – channel 861. Craig Phillips who won the first [...]

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Make this a summer one to remember with Gala Bingo's sunsational Great British giveaway. There are some sizzling hot prizes up for grabs, including fantastic summer days out to some of the UK's best attractions. No passport required - just pack your sun cream and come enjoy their super summer games.

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For your chance to win a pair of tickets for a Live Eviction Night you need to deposit and spend £25, quoting bonus code BB10, between 22 June 2009 - 27 July 2009 on the BB10 scratch card and you will automatically be entered into our prize draw.*

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Kicking off Wednesday 10th June 2009 there is a new look to Gala Bingo's 1TG bingo. Any player waiting on 1 number when the Full House is called in our 1TG games will now win themselves an amazing £1.

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Gala Bingo's 2 week free bingo spectacular is here! It's free, there's lots of real cash to be won and it's every day. Between 10am - 11pm there will be over 50 free games and over 200 lucky winners.

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Every Friday in June, soap star bingo will take place on Gala TV between 8pm and 9pm. Each night will be hosted by Gala Bingo's brand new presenter Chris Parker, former resident of Albert Square, who played Spencer Moon in Eastenders.

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To get you looking your best this summer, Gala Bingo are giving you the chance to dress to impress, just like your fav celeb, with their special collection of stylish promotions - there are sizzling hot prizes to be won which are sure to make you look great. So go along to Gala Bingo this June for some feel-good fun!

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A 76 year old regular bingo player scooped over £30,000 when she hit the High 5 Jackpot at the Gala Bingo hall in Birmingham Great Park. Eunice Smith said it was the most she had ever won and she felt wonderful. She told the Redditch Advertiser: “I feel wonderful. When I won it I was told that [...]

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Homecare assistant Diane McNab really couldn't believe her luck when she heard that she had won a Charlie Dimmock-designed garden makeover, thanks to Gala Bingo

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Gala Bingo will be offline for eight hours in the early hours of tomorrow morning for a site upgrade. Gala Bingo players will not be able to play online bingo between 1am and 9am on Tuesday 19 May and will be greeted by a holding page advising them of the downtime. The technical upgrade will also affect [...]

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Thanks to all your amazing feedback Gala Bingo have made some bright changes to Gala Bingo.com. Changes to really give you that Gala Bingo Buzz, and to celebrate there'll be 1p bingo and huge jackpots all weekend.

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A bingo player was escorted from a bingo hall after staging a two hour sit down protest over a £1,000 prize. Elaine Prendergast, 63, claims that she hit a full house during a session at the Gala Bingo hall in Wythenshawe, Manchester but that the caller missed her cry of ‘house’, costing her a £1,000 prize. She [...]

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This May Gala Bingo wants to make you a star. Check out their selection of star-studded games and exciting prizes and you could get the celebrity treatment you deserve. So go along this month to Gala Bingo for your chance to experience firsthand how the other half live.

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Cambridge’s only bingo hall, the Gala Bingo in Hobson Street, is set to close on May 25. 13 staff will almost certainly lose their jobs from the closure and local players will be hit hard as there is no bingo hall for miles. The nearest bingo halls are in Peterborough, Bury St Edmunds, Harlow or Bedford. The [...]

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The bingo industry’s campaign to abolish VAT on bingo ticket sales was succesful yesterday – only for Chancellor Alistair Darling to increase taxes on bingo and gaming machines. VAT on bingo will be abolished but Gross Profits Tax (GPT) will increase from 15% to 22% and machine duty will rise 9% from £2,030 to £2,215 per [...]

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Play Gala Bingo’s cosmic new bingo game Galaxy Bingo to win fantastic prizes and a brand new jackpot. Match up the numbers on your cards in rows, columns, diagonals or the pattern which changes every game. Plus find a star and there is an instant win bonus waiting for you! The more cards you [...]

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Spring has sprung at Gala Bingo The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and this April they've got a fantastic selection of games to put a spring in your step, as well as blooming marvelous prizes to kick start the season. Plus there's load of cash being splashed! Who says money doesn't grow on trees?

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Riva Bingo clubs has sold more than half of their bingo clubs to a former Gala Bingo executive. Brian Mattingley has bought three Beacon Bingo clubs and three more clubs from Riva Bingo for an undisclosed sum. The Beacon Bingo clubs Mattingley has bought are in Loughborough, Northampton and Cricklewood. He has also bought the Hippodrome Bingo [...]

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A bingo club in Peterborough says they are beating the recession with attendances soaring 400% in a year. The Gala bingo hall in Westfield Road, Peterborough says they have even had to turn some customers away, such is the popularity of bingo in a recession. Managers say that special offers and promotions have helped raise numbers from [...]

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The government’s Pension Service is sending employees off to bingo halls during working hours – to advise pensioners on whether they are getting their maximum benefits. Officials from the Pension Service will be visiting Mecca and Gala bingo halls in coming months to check whether players are claiming their maximum entitlement for their pension. An estimated 1.8 [...]

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A Gala Bingo employee has been sacked over an alleged £10,000 scam in which they fixed the result of a bingo game. A female employee, said to be his girlfriend, has been suspended pending an investigation. The man and women worked in the Gala bingo hall in Pallion, Sunderland. The police and the Gambling Commission are both [...]

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Gala Bingo was yesterday investigating its first case of alleged number fixing. A bingo caller, believed to be in his 40s, has been given the sack and a woman who worked at the same bingo hall has been suspended as a result of the suspected £10,000 scam.

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Saturday 4th April 2009 hosts The Grand National, one of the biggest horse races in the world and Gala Bingo have teamed up with their sister site Coral.co.uk to offer you access to their sports betting facilities. Coral have over 80 years of high-street bookmaking experience and are a world-renowned brand. So go on try your luck with the Grand National Horse Race this year.

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Gala Bingo have loads of loot up for grabs this March in their most exciting promotion yet! You could win a share of £40k in Gala Bingo's 4 online treasure hunts, plus 8 lucky winners will get time to grab as much loot as they can in our special "Splash the Cash" pod!

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Mecca Bingo has committed to staying with its software provider Virtue Fusion. While this may not seem like big news to those outside the online bingo industry, the development is a major decision which is likely to have serious ramifications for other operators. Bingo News has learned that Mecca Bingo planned to dump Virtue Fusion in favour [...]

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Gala Bingo has received a fantastic new makeover and now features a number of innovative enhancements making it easier for players to chat, play and win with their friends while enjoying their favourite games online.

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Gala Bingo has teamed up with Barack Obama's step mother, Kezia Obama, to help raise money for Sue Ryder Care.

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Dinner lady Joan Scales from Dartmouth, Devon, couldn't believe her luck when she became a Nectar card millionaire by simply playing a game of online bingo with Gala Bingo.

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Ukash have announced that they now have 44 sites that take UKash payments which means that online bingo players can deposit cash straight into their online bingo accounts. UKash take cash payments at over 275,000 outlets worldwide and players can then state where they would like their money to be uploaded to fund their online accounts. UKash’s [...]

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Gala Bingo’s television channel, Gala TV, is to be relaunched following the appointment of a new production company. The relaunch is being led by ETV Media Group, who took over the contract from Endemol UK. ETV will produce eight hours of programming a day on Gala TV, which will be broadcast on Sky and FreeSat as well [...]

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Between Monday 16th and Sunday 22nd Feb - Everyone's a Winner on Gala Bingo!! Everyone can be a winner, simply go and buy a bingo ticket at Gala Bingo during the promotional period and you'll instantly become a Gala winner receiving a £1 bonus.

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The Bingo Association has suspended publishing its quarterly magazine, Bingo Link, until further notice. An insider told Bingo News: “We have a number of issues that need resolving and until that point there will be no further editions.” The last Bingo Link was published in July 2008 and although Bingo Association officials had been telling members there [...]

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The law allowing bingo halls to increase the number of B3 jackpot gaming machines from four to eight was only changed on 4 February but already bingo halls are seeing the positive effects of the change. Mecca Bingo and Gala Bingo management have ordered bingo halls to increase the number of B3 machines as rapidly as [...]

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