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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 value for [...]

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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 will have [...]

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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 you £5 [...]

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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 as spend!  [...]

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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 are [...]

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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 every single day! [...]

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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 regular favourites, [...]

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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 and [...]

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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 so [...]

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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 Ducks room [...]

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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 Final [...]

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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 in [...]

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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 £10,000 [...]

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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 as a [...]

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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 this superb [...]

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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 created a £10,000 prize [...]

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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 from Friday [...]

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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 give away [...]

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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 will be won [...]

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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 online bingo site, which pays out more than £65 million per month, [...]

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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 “stunned” when she [...]

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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 end [...]

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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 to [...]

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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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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 to [...]

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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! Join Mecca Bingo from [...]

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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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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 Operator of [...]

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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 WIlliam Hill [...]

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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 set [...]

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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 in [...]

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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 rights [...]

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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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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 ruled out [...]

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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 Is Business [...]

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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, Ian Burke, [...]

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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 the regular [...]

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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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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 for. Nisbet, [...]

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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. She said: “I [...]

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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 games [...]

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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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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 woman and [...]

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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 lucky [...]

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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 executive chairman [...]

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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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The High Court today upheld a ruling that Mecca Bingo’s parent company, Rank Group, is entitled to a £59.1 million VAT refund. The High Court ruled that Mecca Bingo overpaid VAT on interval bingo and gaming machines and that last year’s rulings by the VAT & Duties Tribunal were correct. The Tribunal had said that an [...]

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Fancy winning a share of a massive £10,000 every Friday this June? To be in with a great chance of taking home some serious money, simply spend £10 a day on bingo tickets from Monday to Thursday. You will then qualify for our private room that opens every Friday where there is £10,000 up for grabs.

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The managing director of Mecca Bingo is being replaced as the company looks for a new face to take the bingo business forward. Simon Wykes, who was responsible for Rank Group’s 103 UK bingo clubs, has left with immediate effect; Rank’s chief executive Ian Burke has taken over operational management of the business until a new [...]

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There are 5 weekends in May, and what better way to enjoy your weekend than bargain price bingo? Starting on the 2nd and 3rd of May in the bingo room Dancing Queen, Mecca Bingo will run 5p bingo every other game from 10am-10pm all weekend!

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Fancy winning a holiday, TV/DVD and Laptop theatre system or even a car?  Join up at Mecca Bingo in May where they have some monster prizes to give away all month! Round 1 Join up in bingo room Key to the Door from Friday to Tuesday this week where Mecca Bingo are running 5 x £1000 Mini [...]

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Half Price Tickets all day!  Join Mecca Bingo on Wednesday 29th for a whole day of Half Price Same Prize Money. This popular club promotion is as simple as it sounds: All bingo tickets will be half price, but the prize money will remain the same. Join them in bingo rooms Dancing Queen, Key To The Door [...]

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Mecca Bingo’s parent company Rank Group put out an emergency trading statement following yesterday’s Budget announcements about the change in the tax regime for bingo operators. They said revenues for Mecca Bingo had stayed exactly the same on a like-for-like basis for the first 16 weeks of 2009 to 19 April. The company said: “In difficult economic [...]

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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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The Foreign Secretary has been hailed as a “fantastic bingo caller” following his debut a a South Shields bingo hall. The praise will be a welcome change for him at a time when his party fights for its political future. David Miliband visited the Mecca Bingo Club in South Shields with Ian Burke, the chief executive of [...]

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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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Mecca Bingo are spending £5.5 million on opening a new bingo hall in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. The Mecca Bingo hall in Queens Road, Beeston will have live entertainment, restaurants and will host community groups such as Weight Watchers during the day. The bingo hall opens on May 14 and more than 3,500 have registered as members prior to [...]

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This April sees the very first Online Championships hosted by Mecca to celebrate the launch of their brand new site! Mecca Bingo are offering hundreds of chances for you to win over £30,000 plus fantastic free bingo!

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A fitness fanatic bingo boss from Maidenhead took on the world's largest timed cycling event this month to help raise money for causes that are close to his heart.

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Rhiannon is like any other teenager and is a sociable thirteen year old who loves going to the cinema, shopping and listening to music. She lives at home with her mum, dad and five year old brother and attends the local comprehensive school.

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A second director of Mecca Bingo has bought shares in the company. Finance director Paddy Gallagher bought 160,000 shares of Mecca Bingo’s parent company, Rank Group, at an average price of 60.04 pence. Last week Rank chief executive Ian Burke bought 85,000 shares at 59.75 pence. Director purchases of shares in a company are normally seen as [...]

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The chief executive of Mecca Bingo has doubled his stake in the business by buying almost £50,000 of shares. Ian Burke bought 85,000 shares at 59.75p and now has around 160,500 shares in Rank Group, which owns Mecca bingo halls and Grosvenor Casinos. Rank Group recently reported results for 2008 and Mr Burke said that he was [...]

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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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Mecca Bingo’s former bingo hall in Vanston Place, Fulham, London is set to be turned into 150 student flats and three shops, if planning permission is granted. Fulham Council have been asked to allow the Victorian building to be conveted into student housing after Mecca Bingo moved out of the premises. The bingo hall was closed [...]

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The old Mecca Bingo Hall in Park Road, Toxteth is to be knocked down and turned into Liverpool’s largest supermarket. The £30 million development of a Tesco superstore will start in September 2009, according to the company. It will create up to 500 jobs of which half will go to local residents. It is the largest development [...]

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Mecca  Bingo’s profits fell 25.5% in 2008 and revenues dropped 10.8% on a year-on-year basis. The final results were flattered by a successful VAT claim which when included in the results reduced the year end performance to a 4.1% drop in profits and a 5.4% decline in revenue. But without the benefit of the one-off VAT win [...]

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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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Join Mecca Bingo for a Friday full of fun on the 27th with their Grand Night In! Play in Key To The Door, Two Little Ducks, Legs Eleven or Dancing Queen from just before 9pm and Mecca Bingo guarantee £25,000 will be won in just over 3 hours!!

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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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Online bingo site Bingo Port today said that its quarterly report of UK bingo sites showed that there was only a 1% increase in player numbers in the last three months of 2008. It contrasts with Bingo Port’s figures for July to September 2008, when player numbers showed a 10% increase in the number of players [...]

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Win £500 with the unluckiest number in bingo! Make Friday the 13th your lucky day with this special bingo promotion at Mecca Bingo Play 90 ball bingo on Friday the 13th at Mecca Bingo and any player who wins a full house on the number 13 will win £500!! All you need to do is win the house with 13 as your final number and they will make sure this is the luckiest Friday 13th EVER!!

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Bingo News has been checking through our search statistics to see the most popular search terms and we found a few surprises among them. Top surprise was how bad bingo players are at spelling! I guess we weren’t that surprised but here’s the top 5 spelling errors: 1. Garla Bingo 2. Meca Bingo 3. Foksy Bingo 4. Galla Bingo 5. Minxie [...]

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A new bingo hall is set to open in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, bucking the national trend for closing bingo clubs. Mecca Bingo will open in Queen’s Road, Beeston in May, subject to receiving the necessary licences. The bingo operator expects to employ up to 65 people at the new bingo hall and is currently recruiting. Jay Murray, general manager [...]

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This Valentines weekend Mecca Bingo are feeling the love. That's why they are offering you a chance to have your money back! Spend £10 on bingo tickets across Saturday and Sunday and get £10 of bingo funds back!! The best bit is, the moment you finish spending your £10 you'll get your money back straight away!

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Look and feel like a star with Mecca Bingo's amazing competition! Fancy a makeover with the best in the business?? Mecca Bingo have an exclusive offer for this week (23rd - 30th) just for you!

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The trial of a man who is accused of telling Mecca Bingo staff there was a bomb in their bingo hall was ended after the judge decided inadmissible evidence had been heard by the jury. John Thompson, 42, will face a new trial on May 18. Mr Thompson faces one charge of communicating false information with intent [...]

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Mecca Bingo is the new sponsor of Wigan Warriors, according to press reports. The deal is to promote their online bingo offering and player shirts will feature the domain name meccabingo.com on the front and back. Mecca Bingo has agreed a 12 month deal and has an option to extend the deal for a further year. The 18 [...]

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A bingo caller who has worked at the same bingo hall for 34 years has ended her career. Rose Walford, 59, has been working at the Mecca bingo hall in Bridgwater, Somerset since she was 25.  Staff at the Mecca Bingo hall near Penel Orlieu saw her off with flowers and a huge basket of fruit. Mrs [...]

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Mecca Bingo is launching a search to find the Bingo Buddy of the Year. Bingo players are asked to nominate friends who they have met through bingo and have made a special difference to their lives. A spokeswoman for Mecca Bingo said: “So many of our members tell us that they have made great friends through bingo [...]

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A woman described herself as ‘gutted’ after she won £5,000 playing bingo – because she thought she had won £250,000. Louise Payton was playing at the Bilston Mecca Bingo club when she hit what she thought was the regional jackpot. She only learned the following day it was a national jackpot and had been shared between [...]

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