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July 2nd, 2009
A protest against Bingo tax was organised on the Green in front of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster yesterday. More than 500 people showed up to support the cause, including members of the Bingo Association, the bingo industry, bingo hall employees, bingo players and many MPs too. In spite of the sweltering heat the mood in the crowd was upbeat and optimistic as they raised their voices in protest against what is perceived as a grossly unfair tax that is levied on bingo operators only, not on sports betting or even casinos. The additional burden of having to pay 22% of profits as bingo tax has seen the closure of numerous bingo halls across the UK. Bingo is a favourite social pastime for thousands of people and the bingo halls also offer employment to many. Bingo halls are a seen as an integral part of society and social interaction and the closure of these bingo halls not only results in job losses but also marks the end of a social life for many bingo players. The bingo industry was widely represented with bosses from most of the big operators present. Mr Paul Talboys of the Bingo Association, Ian Burke of Rank, Simon Longbottom of Gala Bingo, Patrick Duffy of Palace Bingo and Dave Holt of Seldis Cooper all came together to put across their message - Tax Bingo Fairly. The aim of this protest is to highlight to the Treasury just how threatened the bingo industry in the UK is, in the hope that the Treasury might reconsider this steep tax that bingo companies have had to pay since the April Budget. As many as 70 bingo halls have been closed down recently, with the bingo industry predicting another 30 closures unless the bingo tax rate is reduced to a fairer 15% instead of the unfair 22% current rate. Written by Charlene Grey for Bingostreet – your resource for bingo news and daily updates on events in the world of online bingo UK. |
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July 1st, 2009
Bingostreet have invented the virtual online bingo tour - and we’ve now got three virtual bingo tours up on YouTube, one each for Wink Bingo, Posh Bingo and Cheeky Bingo - more to follow soon! The powers that be behind the scenes at Bingostreet, thought that it might be a nice idea to provide a virtual tour of bingo sites, to accompany the many online bingo reviews that we already have on Bingostreet - which is mainly just text. Now the reviews really come to life! I for one think it’s an excellent idea, and once you’ve taken a virtual tour of a bingo site you’re all clued up as to what it would be like to play bingo online there. Take a well-known site like Wink Bingo for instance, but say you’ve never played there before and can’t be bothered to register. If you just want a quick peek inside to look at the quality and variety of bingo games on offer, simple, just click here for your very own private tour of this hot bingo site. Initially none of these video bingo reviews have commentary, but I think we might be adding a simple voice-over at a later stage, just with a little bit of extra information for the viewers. Do have a look at the video online bingo reviews and let us know what you think. If we do add some voiceovers later, what sort of information would you like to hear about while you watch the video? We’d love to hear from you, and hope you enjoy the virtual bingo reviews! Written by Charlene Grey for Bingostreet - bringing you daily news and updates on events in the world of online bingo UK. |
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June 29th, 2009
The news of Michael Jackson’s unconfirmed death late on Thursday night in the UK was met with disbelief and total shock. As more and more people became aware of the terrible news, Farrah Fawcett Major’s death almost slipped by unnoticed, and the internet bowed down under the weight of extremely heavy traffic, everyone trying to find out more. I was too upset to write my usual bingo blog on Friday, any words on the subject would have been trite at that time. Despite obits pouring out on Twitter and Facebook all over the world and countless reports by news organisations, the fact remained that Whacko Jacko would never perform again in this life. With bingo promotions getting bigger and better all the time, some online bingo sites had even been offering tickets to the Michael Jackson concerts in the O2 arena, these concerts will sadly now never take place. I think I was not the only person who was slightly sceptical at the thought of a 50 back-to-back concert comeback, much as I would have loved to have been there. It’s been a subdued atmosphere over the weekend, and almost everytime I turn on the radio or the television, a Michael Jackson song is playing, which brings back the reality that he’ll never sing again. It’s going to take a while before I can listen to one of his songs without tears. RIP. Written by Charlene Grey for Bingostreet - your daily resource for news and updates on events in the world of online bingo UK. |
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June 25th, 2009
One of my dead fave events of the month happens tomorrow night at 888ladies bingo, the delightful delicious and d-lovely £8,888 guaranteed monthy online bingo jackpot. Unfortunately, I’ve never been so lucky as to actually win this extremely well-proportioned online bingo jackpot, but it doesn’t put me off from trying. Of course, I’ve already bought a lucky bundle of bingo tickets for the big game tomorrow night at 888ladies - it kicks off at 10pm so either pre-purchase your tickets now or make sure you’re sitting in front of your computer in time - you’ll lose out on a lotta excitement if you don’t. So what exactly is it about this once monthly event that’s so special? Is it the huge amount of money? Well, yes that’s a good part of it, but other bingo sites also offer monthly guaranteed online bingo jackpots of £10,000, so it’s not the biggest bingo jackpot going. However there does seem to be a hint of the magical about the possibility of winning an £8,888 online bingo jackpot at 888ladies - it’s definitely something that you’d always remember for the rest of your life. So if your lucky number happens to involve an ‘8′ and you’re feeling lucky, then you know that there’s only one place you need to be tomorrow night at 10pm, June 26, and that’s at 888ladies, for one of their best ever bingo promotions, the £8,888 guaranteed jackpot game. See you there, and GL! Written by Charlene Grey for Bingostreet - bringing you daily news and updates on events in the world of online bingo UK. |
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June 24th, 2009
Costa Bingo has only just recently launched, and in the same style as the incredibly popular Cheeky Bingo, offers four free bingo rooms where players can play free bingo games all day long and win cash prizes. The key word(s) here are free bingo - players aren’t required to make a deposit or fund their Costa Bingo accounts, but can create a new account really quickly and jump into the glorious free bingo rooms right away. An extra plus at Costa Bingo that Cheeky Bingo doesn’t offer at the moment, is that every top of the hour free bingo game sports a £50 cash jackpot - nice, and absolutely free! Costa Bingo also offers a lot more, and the idea behind the free online bingo games is to use this as an initial attraction to bingo fans, who will then want to try their luck with their own money and start shooting for the bigger jackpots. It’s nice to see that Costa Bingo has stuck pretty closely to the extremely successful Cheeky Bingo blueprint, in offering free bingo games and additional 5p and 10p rooms with a clear easy to follow schedule. Costa Bingo also offers a simple selection of pre-buy guaranteed jackpot bingo games, £250 daily, £1000 weekly and £2500 monthly, each with tickets costing just 10p a pop. We’re pretty sure that the hot sunshine themed Costa Bingo site will meet with an appreciative audience, and should have no problem building up it’s own busy and buzzing online bingo community very soon. Written by Charlene Grey for Bingostreet – your daily source for news and updates on events in the world of online bingo UK. |
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June 23rd, 2009
Another report came out today waxing lyrical about the wonders of playing online bingo (and bingo in traditional bingo halls), as a great way to stave off medical conditions including dementia and disabilities as you grow older - but of course we knew this already! The bingo game itself is pure genius - a simple game that is built around a great community, giving you the best of both worlds: an opportunity to get on down and gossip with all your bingo buddies at the same time giving you many chances to win some juicy bingo jackpots! Now scientists and researchers are backing up what we’ve known for years with hard data, playing bingo games and interacting socially with your friends keeps you young and gives you a much increased chance of a longer and healthier life. What I found amazing was that the data also shows that people who play bingo games regularly are also 40% less likely to die - wow! If ever there was a successful marketing campaign for bingo then this would be it - play bingo, cheat death and live forever! It all goes to show that you really can’t beat a good game of bingo now, can you?! Written by Charlene Grey for Bingostreet - your daily resource for news and updates on events in the world of online bingo UK. |
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June 22nd, 2009
Because we’re lucky to have such a dedicated following of online bingo enthusiasts at Bingostreet, we do our very best to work at getting the best bonus offers for our players as possible. And the new £21 FREE offer for Bingo Day is one such example. This offer is absolutely exclusive to Bingostreet, and you won’t find it anywhere else. If you simply visit the Bingo Day site without clicking on our banner first, you won’t be eligible for the exclusive £21 Free bonus - which would be a shame. So please remember if you do want to play the great online bingo games at Bingo Day, to click the links we provide or on the front page banner at Bingostreet - and enjoy a whole bundle of exciting free online bingo games without having to dip into your pocket first. Of course, we don’t make deals like this with any old bingo site, these bingo websites have to be worth it, and above all honest and safe places to play bingo games online. We make very sure that we don’t promote any dodgy bingo site on Bingostreet, and if a site dares to treat one of our players badly then we will stop promoting them immediately, even if it means we lose out financially. But to be fair, this doesn’t happen every day, in fact it’s an extremely rare occurrence at Bingostreet when we ban an online bingo site from our pages. If one of our players does report a problem at a bingo site that we promote, then we always contact the bingo site on behalf of the player and ask them to resolve the situation. 99 times out of 100 this approach works, and everybody is happy: the bingo player, the bingo site and the crew at Bingostreet too. We take our position as one of the biggest online bingo portals in the UK very seriously, and our number one committment is to deliver news and information about online bingo sites that deliver the best online bingo experience to players. Thank you for supporting us and enjoy your bingo games! Written by Charlene Grey for Bingostreet - bringing you daily news and updates on events in the world of online bingo UK. |
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June 19th, 2009
An unbelievable SIX MILLION POUNDS is aching to be won in online bingo jackpots this weekend at Wink Bingo! First you’ve got the £1M Club game which kicks off at 8.30pm tonight. If you’re feeling lucky then I’d max out on bingo tickets, after all £1,000,000 is a lot more than just pocket money - it’s enough to set you up comfortably for the rest of your life! And then on Saturday night you’ve got the mega £5,000,000 online bingo jackpot game which could mean a lucky online bingo player becomes a multi-millionaire this weekend - WTG! Well you gotta be innit to winnit so get on down to Wink Bingo ASAP and make sure you’re maxed out on bingo tickets for this mega bingo game. You might want to check your online bingo horoscope while you’re at it, just in case! So make sure you’re wearing your lucky bingo socks this weekend when you play the fantastic jackpot online bingo games available at Wink Bingo - and GL my bingo buddies! Written by Charlene Grey for Bingostreet - bringing you daily news and updates on events in the world of online bingo UK |
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June 18th, 2009
What an amazing success story it is for Cheeky Bingo - winner of 2 out of 7 awards at the Online Bingo Summit this week, WTG! At Bingostreet we’re all absolutely delighted with the news of this individual bingo site’s short journey to success. It was only just launched a few months ago in Feb this year with a crazy marketing strategy focusing on free bingo games. Everyone in the UK bingo industry thought the folks at Cheeky Bingo were absolutely nuts for providing 2 free bingo rooms (now 4) alongside their regular depositing online bingo games. We were all asking, how on earth can they expect to survive in such a competitive industry by offering free online bingo rooms - it seemed like a crazy suicidal move. But happily, Cheeky Bingo have proved us all wrong, and their free bingo rooms now total four in number, and bingo enthusiasts from all over the UK flock to this site and STAY, because it’s different. Cheeky Bingo is responsible for the free bingo fad that spread like wildfire once other bingo operators cottoned on to the fact that it was an extremely lucrative marketing strategy, with sites like Posh Bingo undergoing a total makeover and introducing two dedicated free bingo rooms of its own. So I take my wee feathered hat off to Cheeky Bingo and bow down low to them for having the audacity (or should I say Cheek?) to swim against the current and emerge triumphant, without even getting a single hair wet - WTG Cheeky Bingo! Written by Charlene Grey for Bingostreet - your number one resource for online bingo news and events in the UK. |
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June 17th, 2009
With unemployment in the UK currently at a dismal 12-year high, more and more people are struggling to make ends meet. This is where free bingo games come to the rescue, giving you not only a great excuse to play your fave online bingo games, but also a chance to win some real cash in the process. One of the best bingo sites where you can play non-stop free online bingo games is Posh Bingo. This recently revamped online bingo site gives away a whopping £40,000 in cash jackpots every month - and that’s just on its free bingo games! You can find the two dedicated free bingo rooms as soon as you login, play in both at the same time and maximise your winning chances! If you get lucky on the free online bingo games at Posh Bingo, you’ve got enough dosh to buy tickets for the money games and even juicier online bingo jackpots await you! Coming up this Friday for instance is the weekly £1,000,000 coverall jackpot online bingo game at Posh Bingo, your chance to win a million pounds in just a few minutes of playing bingo online! So take your mind of your troubles and earn yourself some extra cash by playing the excellent free bingo games at Posh Bingo, GL! Click here to play at Posh Bingo! Written by Charlene Grey for Bingostreet - your daily resource for news and events in the world of online bingo UK. |
