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Every day’s a fantastic day with Mecca bingo – they’re giving you a gift every day you play until the end of February! Spend £1 in one day on any bingo game online or on your mobile and you’ll qualify for a guaranteed gift at Meccabingo.com. What You Can Win Mecca Bingo have got all [...]

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Monday 23rd – Wednesday 25th January Mecca Bingo are celebrating Burn’s Night with a Burn’s Night Bingo £5,000 Private Room with £5,000 of Superbooks and 90 Ball Bingo jackpots! You’ll get exclusive entry to this extra special room when you spend £20 in real funds on bingo tickets between Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th January. [...]

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Gold Rush Room Opens 17th January 2012 Christmas and New Year may be out of the way, but Mecca Bingo still got a golden opportunity to celebrate here at Mecca! On Tuesday 17th January Mecca  Bingo are opening a brand new networked bingo room where there will be big bingo jackpots to win every day. [...]

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Get More For Your Money At Mecca Bingo Throughout January Mecca Bingo look forward to those wonderful new year sales, and this year there is no need to brave the big freeze in order to find a bargain – they have a range of superb January savers! Throughout January Mecca Bingo are running loads of [...]

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Win Exclusive Deal or No Deal Prizes Wednesday 7th – Wednesday 21st December And what a game Mecca Bingo have in store for you! Deposit and spend £5 from Wednesday 7th – Wednesday 21st December on Deal or No Deal, Deal or No Deal Instant or Deal or No Deal Jackpot slot games and you [...]

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Sunday 25th December Take a break from the sprouts and the Christmas TV this year with Mecca Bingo’s fabulous festive free bingo! Mecca Bingo’s Christmas pressie to you this Christmas Day is a massive 12 hours of free bingo games. Make sure you join the fun in our Dancing Queen, Two Little Ducks, and Key [...]

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Monday 26th December – Sunday 1st January Mecca Bingo certainly are giving you something to celebrate this New Year as they are bringing you the biggest 7 days of bingo jackpots to ever take place in the world as they’ll be giving away a massive £500,000 in bingo jackpots! You’ve watched all the Christmas TV [...]

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Thursday 1st December – Saturday 3rd December Its The Show Everyone is talking about, and YOU could be there Meccabingo.com is proud to give you the opportunity to win tickets to The X Factor Live Final 2011 when you deposit and spend £5 on The X Factor Steps To Stardom Mecca Bingo will enter you [...]

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Santa’s Grotto Saturday 17th – Saturday 24th December We want you to have a spectacular time this Christmas so we have some very special Santa’s Grotto Games for you to enjoy from 6-11pm on Saturday 17th – Friday 23rd December with over £10,000 in prize money up for grabs each evening! Then on Saturday 24th [...]

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Mecca’s 50th Birthday £150 Games Monday 10th October – Sunday 23rd October Mecca Bingo have 5 x £150 jackpot games every hour from 5pm to 10pm everyday across 2 of our 90 Ball Bingo Rooms with tickets starting at just 15p from Monday 10th October to Sunday 23rd October to celebrate our 50th Birthday. It’s [...]

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£50k Escalator Jackpot Monday 10th October – Sunday 23rd October Happy Birthday to Mecca Bingo! Happy Birthday to Mecca Bingo! To celebrate 50 years of Mecca Bingo they have over £50,000 of jackpots to be won. From Monday October 10th until Sunday 23rd October you will be able to win the 90 Ball Bingo progressive [...]

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Mecca Bingo want to make it as easy as possible for you to join and start playing bingo, so they have loads of benefits for you when you first join. You can play for free and win cash bonuses plus get up to £50 FREE. Don’t worry if you have never played online bingo before [...]

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1TG Weekdays – More chances to win Every day in August For all you bingo players out there you know how frustrating it is when you are waiting for just one more number to be called to win a full house and claim your jackpot so Mecca Bingo have created 1 to go games or [...]

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From Monday 1st August At Mecca Bingo they love giving out free cash so join them every Monday throughout August and you could win £5 FREE play by spending just £2 on bingo tickets with their Lucky Dip. Spend just £2 on bingo tickets, on any Monday from August 1st and you will qualify for [...]

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Wednesday July 13th Mecca Bingo are celebrating the success of their new exciting slot game exclusive to MeccaBingo.com, so when you deposit and play £5 on Wednesday July 13th on Britain’s Got Talent Superstar Mecca Bingo will give you £5 FREE to chance your luck the very next day! It’s as simple as that, deposit [...]

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The All Winners Play-offs From Sunday July 3rd At Mecca Bingo they like to reward their players so they have created All Winners Games, every week in ALL standard 90 Ball Bingo Rooms from Sunday through to Thursday, from 1pm to 10pm we will give you 5 chances an hour to win a FREE PASS [...]

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First week of every month (1st-7th) The first week of every month when you play bingo in the Two Little Ducks room Mecca Bingo will give 40p of every £1 spent to Marie Curie Cancer Care. So make sure you get playing, you could even win yourself a £150 bingo jackpot! How to raise money [...]

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June Jackpots Throughout June June promises to be a spectacular month at Mecca Bingo as they guarantee to give away over £250,000 in June Jackpots throughout the month, that’s over £8,500 in June Jackpots everyday! Mecca Bingo want to reward all their players by making June a month to remember. How to win? Simply play [...]

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Audition Online Now for Mecca’s Got Talent If you missed out on auditioning for Mecca’s Got Talent in your local Club or didn’t get through because the nerves got the better of you, then you can audition online for the chance to win a £5,000 cash prize and a year’s contract with top talent agency [...]

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Big Night In Weekender! Sunday 29th and Monday 30th May After the success of the Big Night In, Mecca Bingo have decided to bring it back but make it even bigger and better, so they’ve extended it to 2 nights and increased the amount of money up for grabs, Mecca Bingo have up to £175,000 [...]

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Friday April 22nd – Monday April 25th You’re never too old to have a bit of fun so take part in Mecca Bingo’s Easter Egg Hunt from April 22nd-25th to win bingo jackpots between £100 and £1000! How do you win? The Easter Egg Hunt games will appear randomly in the bingo schedule from April [...]

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Bingo Linx £22,000 Jackpot Game Sunday 24th April Win an amazing £22,000 in bingo jackpots on Easter Sunday from 10.30pm, tickets are only 50p! This Easter Sunday after you’ve done all the washing up, put the kids to bed and scoffed all your chocolate eggs, what is there left to do? Well at Mecca Bingo [...]

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Fool’s Bingo Friday 1st April Mecca Bingo love to have fun so to get into the spirit of April Fool’s Day from 6-11pm, Mecca Bingo will be shaking things up! One thing you can be sure of is there is no joke about the amount of cash that can be won! How do you win? [...]

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The owners of Mecca Bingo are to receive a £154.3 million tax refund bonus after winning a VAT case against the government. Rank Group, who own Mecca Bingo, will get £74.8 million back in overpaid VAT from bingo games played between 1973 and 1996. On top of this they will also get interest on the [...]

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Big Night In! Sunday 27th March Mecca Bingo is rolling out the red carpet and inviting you to their Big Night In on Sunday 27th March, starting at 5pm, Mecca Bingo are giving you the chance to win a staggering £100,000 in Bingo Superbook Jackpots in the space of just 7 hours! Enjoy all the [...]

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Valentine’s Day Jackpot! Feel the love this Valentine’s Day at Mecca Bingo with an extraordinary £14,000 jackpot game! Imagine what you could treat your loved one to – a holiday of a life-time, a slap up meal, the possibilities are endless with huge cash bingo jackpots up for grabs! Join Mecca Bingo in their standard [...]

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for the Weekday! From Monday 31st January How about having some weekend-worthy excitement at the start of the week? Every Tuesday throughout February you can win a massive £9,000 in bingo jackpots To play, simply spend £20 or more on any of your favourite bingo rooms on any Monday this month, and you can enter [...]

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27th January to 9th February Every day from 9pm for 2 weeks you could bring your Mecca Moment to life as Mecca Bingo will be giving away an incredible £10,000 in £1,000 jackpot games in just 2 hours, plus the chance to win random mystery cash bonuses! If you were lucky enough to win a [...]

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Get More For Your Money At Mecca Bingo We all look forward to those wonderful new year sales, and this year there is no need to brave the big freeze in order to find a bargain – we have a range of superb January savers here at Mecca! Throughout January we are running loads of [...]

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How do you fancy kicking off the new year with a luxury break in the sun? You can escape the big freeze with a dream holiday to any destination in Mecca Bingo's incredible new year promotion.

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The 2010 Which Bingo Site of the Year votes have been counted and the winner is Sun Bingo! The Sun is now not only the most popular newspaper in the UK it is also the name behind the most popular online bingo site.

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Congratulations are due to the CM team at Mecca Bingo as the votes cast at WhichCM.com have been counted and they are officially the UK Online Bingo Industry CM's of the year 2010.

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Take a break from the sprouts and the Christmas TV this year with Mecca Bingo’s fabulous festive free bingo! Their Christmas pressie to you this Christmas Day is a massive 12 hours of free bingo games. Make sure you join the fun in our Dancing Queen, Two Little Ducks, and Key to the Door bingo [...]

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LONDON - Tombola Bingo won Bingo Operator of the Year at last night’s prestigous eGaming Review Awards, widely considered to be the most credible awards in the online gaming industry. It was a good night for the bingo industry with operators across the bingo spectrum putting up a surprisingly strong show in the keenly contested [...]

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September Jackpots Join Mecca Bingo every weekday in September for their daily jackpots and you could win a share of over £30,000 each week! Every weekday from 9pm Mecca Bingo will run their daily jackpots in Dancing Queen and Two Little Ducks and the best bit is, tickets are just 25p so you get great [...]

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LONDON, U.K. - A player at Mecca Bingo's online site has won just over £53,000 after landing a progressive jackpot win from a "Jungle Jackpot" slots game.

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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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All this month you can qualify for Mecca Bingo’s weekly £10,000 Sunday Giveaway. All you have to do is spend £40 on bingo tickets from Monday to Thursday to qualify for Sunday’s free private room where you can play for £10,000 each week. All types of bingo qualify as spend! Every week the private room [...]

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August 11th On Wednesday August 11th, deposit and play though £5 on Mecca Bingo’s classic slot game Cashino and they will give you another £5 to chance your luck on them on Thursday! It’s as simple as that, deposit £5 into your Mecca Bingo account, spend it in full on Cashino and they will credit [...]

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Monday 2nd August to Sunday 29th August All this month you can qualify for Mecca Bingo’s weekly £10,000 Sunday Giveaway. All you have to do is spend £40 on bingo tickets from Monday to Thursday to qualify for Sunday’s free private room where you can play for £10,000 each week. All types of bingo qualify [...]

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Summer is finally here and to celebrate Mecca Bingo have £5000 that must be won every day in July! From 1st – 31st July Mecca Bingo have 10 x £500 jackpot games that must be won in Dancing Queen and Two Little Ducks from 9pm daily, that’s £5000 in guaranteed jackpots every single day! Tickets [...]

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July Jackpots All month Summer is finally here and to celebrate Mecca Bingo have £5000 that must be won every day in July! From 1st – 31st July Mecca Bingo have 10 x £500 jackpot games that must be won in Dancing Queen and Two Little Ducks from 9pm daily, that’s £5000 in guaranteed jackpots [...]

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July 1st sees the re-launch of Mecca Bingo’s Club Bingo Room! Get yourselves over to their Club Bingo room and see the great changes they have made for you! With a room that’s open from 10am – 10pm and boasts brand new games such as SUPERBOOKS & PENNY BINGO as well as some of your [...]

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Escape the football World Cup at Mecca Bingo with their World Chat Challenge in June and July. If you’re not keen on football, Mecca Bingo have just the game for you to make some extra bingo money and have a laugh along the way! Play bingo in Two Little Ducks or Key to the Door [...]

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Summer is finally here and to celebrate Mecca Bingo have some sizzling hot jackpots everyday in June! From June 1st – 30th Mecca Bingo have 10 £500 jackpot games that must be won in Dancing Queen and Two Little Ducks from 6:15pm daily, that’s £5000 in guaranteed jackpots every single day! Tickets are just 25p [...]

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All This Month! As you all know Mecca Bingo is proud to support Marie Curie Cancer Care as their Charity of the year and what better way to raise money than a month of Marie Curie Bingo! Throughout the month of May Mecca Bingo will be playing five games a day in their Two Little [...]

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If you love Britain’s Got Talent as much as Mecca Bingo do here then they’ve got a prize that’s right up your street! Play in Mecca Bingo’s exclusive 90-ball Britain’s Got Talent bingo room with real funds before the 27th May and you’ll enter a prize draw to win exclusive VIP tickets to the Grand [...]

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CREWE, UK – The Tory candidate in Crewe and Nantwich has spent the week run up to the election playing bingo in his local Mecca Bingo hall. Edward Timpson visited the Mecca Bingo hall in Crewe on the Friday before the election and even took his mother and the team from his office to join [...]

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Until May 6th Mecca Bingo have enjoyed giving away their £10,000 daily 90 ball jackpot so much that they’ve decided to continue the fun until May 6th!  Play in any standard 90 ball bingo room and Mecca Bingo promise £10,000 will be won with their 33 ball progressive jackpot.  Not only that, each time the [...]

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Tuesdays at 8pm and again at 9pm Ever fancied a discount on your bingo tickets? Well, from 8pm on Tuesday 20th April, you can with Session Bingo in the “Key to the Door” room. Buy tickets for session bingo and you can get tickets for the next few games at a discounted rate, as well [...]

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Win a live appearance at Wembley Stadium plus £3000 cash At last, the amazing competition that brought you show-stopping acts like Susan Boyle and Diversity: Britain’s Got Talent, is back on TV. This year, Mecca Bingo is an official partner and proud to be associated with the talent contest that gets everyone talking! To celebrate [...]

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LONDON, UK - The operators of Mecca Bingo halls and Grosvenor Casinos, Rank Group plc has experienced a good start to the year with increased sales in its casinos and online platforms.

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Clover Rollover’s Progressive Jackpot currently stands at a massive £1.7Million! We’ve added a £10,000 prize pot for anyone who stakes £1 on Clover Rollover on the day the big jackpot is won! You could be one spin away from becoming our latest Mecca Millionaire! All the Details To add to the fun Mecca Bingo have [...]

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Mecca Bingo have enjoyed giving away £340,000 in February and March so much, they’ve decided to continue the fun in April with their £10,000 daily jackpot!  Play in any standard 90 ball bingo room and we promise £10,000 will be won with our 33 ball progressive jackpot.  Not only that, each time the £10,000 is [...]

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Mecca Bingo have got an Easter ‘Eggstavaganza’ for all you games players out there! Play any slots or mini game this Easter weekend and get cash back up to £25 if you don’t win! All the Details To help you enjoy your time off over the Easter break Mecca Bingo are offering 10% cash back [...]

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Due to phenomenal demand Mecca Bingo have now extended this promotion until March 31st! They’ve listened to your feedback on the biggest promotion we’ve ever had and you want it to continue so we are happy to oblige. Win £10,000 a day every day just by playing your favourite bingo game! Mecca Bingo guarantee to [...]

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Daily Jackpot Giveaway! Win £10,000 a day every day just by playing your favourite bingo game! Mecca Bingo guarantee to give away £10,000 in a single bingo jackpot every day until March 13th with their £10,000 a day Mega Ball Booster Jackpot. Play in any standard 90 ball bingo room and Mecca Bingo promise £10,000 [...]

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Mecca Bingo halls in 2009 increased takings by over £5million (from £227.6million to £230million) compared to 2008 figures. Growth in Mecca Bingo revenue was mostly a result of increased spend per customer as the halls had actually seen a fall in customer visits in 2009.

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February 27 is officially the luckiest day, according to Gala Bingo who revealed in 2009 they gave away more prize money on that day than any other last year. Top ten Luckiest Days February 27 May 2 June 30 May 1 February 28 January 29 February 6 January 31 February 7 January 24 The leading [...]

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Feel the love this Valentine's day at Mecca Bingo with an extraordinary £14,000 jackpot game! Play Bingo Join Now Play Games Join Mecca Bingo in their 90 ball rooms at 10.30pm on February 14th and they are sure you'll love the amount of cash we have on offer!

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Mecca Bingo is the place to be every Thursday in February as they give away an extra £12,000 in bingo jackpots every week in Dancing Queen and Key to the Door!the Details Mecca Bingo have gone money mad and to prove it they have added 4 x £500 jackpot an hour between 7pm and 11pm. On top of that, there will be 2 x £2000 games thrown in for good measure!

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Mecca Bingo has released details of its second £20,000 January jackpot winner. The winner is known as 12plumpkin online and scooped the £21,000 prize on January 16th in Mecca’s weekly escalator jackpot. The winner, a loyal player at Mecca Bingo said, “I love playing bingo so it is absolutely amazing to win!” Describing herself as [...]

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The Operator of Mecca Bingo halls and Grosvenor Casinos in the UK, Rank Group has posted significant sales growth in 2009, helped by rapid sales acceleration during the final quarter of the year. The improvement in sales at the end of last year means that Rank Groups earnings per share will be at the high [...]

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The number of customers going to Mecca Bingo halls in the past 12 months has dropped 4 per cent but the amount customers spend has increased. Mecca Bingo’s parent company, Rank Group plc, announced a 12 and 52 week trading update this morning which showed that revenues were flat year-on-year. In the last 12 weeks [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Start the New Year as you mean to go on with BIG Jackpots at Mecca! Mecca Bingo guarantee to give away £20,000 every week in January with their 33 Ball Jackpot! Play bingo in any standard 90 ball bingo room and you could be in the luck and walk away with £20,000. Mecca Bingo guarantee to give away £20,000 by the end of Saturday each week! Will you have the lucky ticket that changes your life?

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To kick start the festive fun, on Saturday 19th and 26th December Mecca Bingo are running a private room with £5000 in bingo jackpots up for grabs and free tickets for everyone who qualifies! To qualify, all you have to do is spend £20 of real funds on any bingo variant in the previous Monday [...]

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Every £10 you spend between December 1st and 14th on X factor 'Steps to Stardom' will gain you one entry into Mecca Bingo's prize draw, and if you win, they will try and get you tickets to your closest venue. Customers may enter this promotion as many times as they wish. The prize draw will take place on Tuesday December 15th and we will start contacting winners on Wednesday December 16th, just in time for you to make someone's Christmas dreams come true!

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12 Days of christmas jackpots December 1st – 12th Mecca Bingo have hijacked the 12 Days of Christmas and to get you in the mood for some festive fun at Mecca! From December 1st for 12 days we are running daily bingo jackpots with cheap tickets and over 12 days we are giving away £39,000! [...]

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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 [...]

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Five leading online bingo companies have been shortlisted for the  Online Bingo Operator of the Year Award, part of the International Gaming Awards. Foxy Bingo, Gala Bingo, Jackpot Joy, Wink Bingo, Skybet and 888 Ladies have all been shortlisted. Gala Bingo, Codere, Cirsa Bingo and Mecca Bingo have been shortlisted for the 2010 Offline Bingo [...]

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Someone is going to get very lucky at Mecca Bingo! Mecca Bingo guarantee the £50,000 90 Ball Bingo jackpot will be won by 30th November. Play in any standard 90 ball bingo room and you could be in with a chance of walking away with £50,000! Mecca Bingo have given away over £130,000 in Jackpots this November! Will you be next?

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November 2009 is seeing the latest addition to Mecca Bingo's family of bingo games; Their latest game is Deal or No Deal Bingo! Combining all the suspense of this TV favourite with traditional 90 ball bingo and a network jackpot of over £10,000 this game is sure to be a classic!

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rom October 28th Mecca Bingo are opening a special Newbie room from 12-1pm and 7-8pm every day for new customers so you can learn the ins and outs of how to play online bingo. The best bit is that Mecca Bingo have made all the games free so you can try before you buy!

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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 [...]

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Someone is going to get very lucky at Mecca Bingo! Mecca Bingo guarantee the £100,000 90 Ball Bingo jackpot will be won by 8th November. Play in any standard 90 ball bingo room and you could be in with a chance of walking away with £100,000!

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Mecca Bingo’s parent group, Rank Bingo, has submitted their views to the UK Treasury on proposed changes to the tax regime on slot machines. The submission says that in order for Rank Group to not suffer from the switch to a gross profit tax (GPT) on slot machines that the rate would have to be [...]

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Spend £10 on Deal or No Deal Bingo before Friday 16th October to be in with a chance of winning this once in a life time prize. The prize draw will be made on Monday 19th of October and the winner will be contacted shortly afterwards!

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Mecca Bingo reported results for the third quarter of the year this morning and although revenues grew there were concerns that customer numbers continue to fall. By contrast, the performance of Mecca Bingo’s online website was very encouraging and helped Rank Interactive, the online arm of Mecca Bingo’s parent company, to show a small growth [...]

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The world famous Deal or No Deal game show is coming to the online bingo world from today. Virtue Fusion, the software company that powers top bingo sites including Crown Bingo, Ladbrokes Bingo, WIlliam Hill Bingo, Bet365 Bingo, Mecca Bingo, Paddy Power Bingo and Sky Bingo, have signed a deal with Endemol, who own the [...]

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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 [...]

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Starts October 5th and ends Friday October 30th All this month you can qualify for Mecca Bingo's weekly £10,000 Friday Giveaway. All you have to do is spend £40 in real funds on 90 ball bingo tickets from Monday to Thursday to qualify for Friday's free private room.

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Join Mecca Bingo for a festival of Free Bingo every day in September from 7pm at Mecca! For one month only, and for the whole of this month, Mecca Bingo are giving you Free Bingo every day to help you stretch your bingo budget! Unlike on other bingo sites, all the money that you win will be in real funds that you can then use any way you like!

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Join Mecca Bingo for a festival of Free Bingo every day in September from 7pm at Mecca! For one month only, and for the whole of this month, Mecca Bingo are giving you Free Bingo every day to help you stretch your bingo budget! Unlike on other bingo sites, all the money that you win will be in real funds that you can then use any way you like!

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Mecca Bingo’s popular affiliate manager Emma Cook is leaving her job in order to retrain as a teacher. She will stop work next Wednesday, 26 August. There is no immediate replacement for her as the company is still trying to recruit someone of a similar standard. Emma, whose title was Affiliate Marketing Assistant, has not [...]

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Mecca Bingo plans to build two clubs similar to their Beeston bingo hall, which has been a massive success. The clubs, which will cost around £1.5 million each, will have restaurants, table service for drinks and aims to upgrade the bingo club experience to attract younger, wealthier customers. Rank chief executive Ian Burke told This [...]

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Ever fancied calling house and getting your mortgage paid? In our final weekly prize draw, one lucky customer will have their mortgage or rent paid for by Mecca Bingo for a whole year! Play in any of Mecca Bingo's 2 daily House Bingo games from Monday to Thursday and you could win either a cash prize or a fantastic voucher to spend on your house!

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Mecca Bingo’s bingo hall business has stablised in the first six months of the year and their online business is a major priority, according to their parent company Rank Group. In a trading statement updating the market on the first six months of 2009′s financial performance, Rank Group issued an upbeat statement. Rank’s chief executive, [...]

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A bingo hall held a party for its oldest member – who at 103 claims the game helps keep her young. The Mecca Bingo hall in Knotty Ash, Liverpool held a giant party for Sally Melia, who has been a member for 43 years. The suprise party was held on a Saturday night, which is [...]

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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 [...]

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Mecca Bingo’s plan to focus their online bingo marketing on pay per click and search engine optimisation strategies has left rival operators amazed. In an interview with eGaming Review, Mecca Bingo boss Angus Nisbet said that free bingo and spending huge amounts on TV advertising was not going to be a strategy they would aim [...]

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The Mecca Bingo online slots player who won over £1.2 million last week, as exclusively revealed by Bingo News, has picked up her winnings. The woman has asked not to be named but she plays under the name ‘houses73′ and is from Cumbria. She picked up the huge cheque at the SAS Radisson Hotel, Manchester. [...]

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Mecca Bingo has been advised that Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has lodged an appeal against last month’s High Court ruling that the bingo company was entitled to a £59.1 million VAT refund. In May and August 2008, the VAT & Duties Tribunal upheld Rank’s respective claims that the inconsistent application of VAT to [...]

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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 [...]

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A Mecca Bingo cleaner chased off a robber who held a woman at knifepoint as he tried to rob a Norwich bingo hall. The incident happened at 8.15am on Saturday 3 July at the Mecca Bingo hall in All Saints Green, Norwich. A balaclaved man broke into the back of the bingo hall, grabbed a [...]

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Join Mecca Bingo in Two Little Ducks for a Grand Night In from 9pm on Wednesday 1st July. To celebrate the start of July Mecca Bingo are running 5 x £1000 jackpot games in just two hours and as a special treat they will be running up to £50 chat games at random points in the two hours!

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Bingo News can exclusively reveal that a lucky Mecca Bingo player last night hit the Clover Rollover progressive jackpot and walked away with over £1.2 million. The Clover Rollover slot game’s progressive jackpot has been rising for months and was up to £1,201,233.77 when the lucky Mecca Bingo player hit it. The player hit five [...]

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The new managing director of Mecca Bingo is Mark Jones. His appointment was announced to the Stock market this morning. Jones, 48, has held a number of senior management posts in the leisure industry, including chief executive of Pizza Hut UK (while at Whitbread PLC), chief executive of Yates Group plc and most recently as [...]

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Tax accountants Deloitte have hailed the decision of the High Court that Mecca Bingo’s parent company, Rank Group, should receive a massive £59.1 million VAT refund. Tony McClenaghan, senior indirect tax partner at Deloitte, who advised Rank, said: “This is a landmark decision endorsing one of the most important principles of Community law, fiscal neutrality. [...]

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