The current heavy snowfalls in the UK are very good for online businesses, not only for online bingo and other entertainment sites, but also for food shops offering online shopping whose customers can’t or don’t want to venture out in the cold and sometimes dangerous weather conditions. Thank goodness for technology.

SOAPS & ONLINE BINGO
Coronation Street and Emmerdale soap fans can now listen to bingo calls they’ve never heard before. ITV Bingo has introduced two new rooms with the names of these soaps. Forget “legs 11″ and all the other calls you know so well, you will now hear “Betty’s hot pot with wine/number 9″ and “Trisha crushed by a chimney/number 53″ instead. Players are chatting constantly and inventing lots of new soap-related bingo calls.

PREFER TO WIN A PRIZE INSTEAD OF MONEY?
Prize bingo is the same as cash bingo, but you win a prize instead of money when playing online bingo. So if you fancy a TV set or a Playstation, just go to any of the online bingo sites, Foxy Bingo, Wink Bingo, Starlight Bingo, amongst others, and you could win just what you want.

The British Legion Club in Cardiff were the hosts of a fantastic birthday party for Amelia Turner on 5th November. She is thought to be UK’s oldest bingo player and she still plays at the Crown Bingo hall. Over 150 friends and well-wishers came to the party with plenty of gifts and cards that by the end of the night were too numerous to count.

ONLINE BINGO SITE DONATES TO CHARITY
A donation of €12,951 has been given to the Children in Need Foundation by the online bingo site, Foxy Bingo. They held a special jackpot game and the total revenue from all the tickets, sold at £1 each, was donated to the charity, taking none for themselves. Foxy Bingo should be congratulated for this selfless action, as should all the online bingo players who played the charity game.

MIRROR BINGO ONLINE PROMOTION
Free online bingo games are being offered to all members of the Mirror Bingo site all this week until 23rd November with the possibility of winning more than £13,000 in jackpots. It’s good news for players new to the site as well, because they will be given a £10 welcome bonus free. So click on between 10am to 10pm and see if you can win.

ONLINE BINGO PLAYERS INCREASING IN UK
The smoking ban has been in force in the UK for over a year now and more than 50 bingo halls have had to close, leaving only about 550 halls and clubs still operating. Although online bingo has become more popular during this time, is the smoking ban really the cause or is it a natural progression and preference to stay home and play online bingo? Whatever the reason, it is of no concern to the players because whether playing bingo online or at land based bingo halls, they are all in for a chance of winning.

ONLINE BINGO PENNY FOR THE GUY GAMES
In an effort to try and keep up the “penny for the guy” tradition, Ladbrokes Bingo are offering penny online bingo games between 5pm and 10pm on 5th November (Guy Fawkes Night). With just a penny you could win cash prizes ranging from £100 to £500. This is a great idea for those players who don’t want to venture out in this cold weather.

Online Bingo trick or treat?
This Halloween weekend is going to be a treat for all online bingo players. Most online bingo sites are offering extra cash prizes and jackpots throughout. The world has gone mad with all sorts of thrilling promotions. Wink Bingo will be giving a guaranteed £1000 jackpot to some lucky online bingo player.

It all starts today! Friday the 25th of September. 888 Ladies Bingo holds the big game with £8,888 guaranteed jackpot. The big bing game will take place in the 75 ball bingo hall and tickets are costing as little as £1 each. Don’t miss this great bingo promotion and who knows you could be the first £8,888 winner.

888 Ladies online bingo will be holding this special game at the last Friday of each month. Place it in your bingo calendar and never miss this life changing bingo game.

On Saturday 26th of September a blackout game will take place with the jackpot starting at £10,000 and has a minimum bingo jackpot of £400. This game will also take place at the 75 ball bingo hall.

888ladies.com offers Free Bingo every hour, all you have to do is grab your free bingo cards and win real cash! Don’t miss the two free bingo games playing Saturday and Sunday 7pm at the Bubbly Bingo with a £500 prize.

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Posh Bingo is running a top promotion Friday September 25th, 2009 where you can win a £500 guaranteed jackpot! The Dreams of Dosh game will start at 10pm and the price of the cards is £1 each.

There are more promotions today at Posh Bingo,

Look for the two free bingo games with a guaranteed jackpot of £50. Free bingo games are played all day at Freebies and Cash Crazy bingo rooms.

Team Bingo comes to Posh! Players can register their interest in Team Bingo on the site. All bingo players will be placed into their Posh Dream Bingo Team! Monthly tournaments start late September and there are some perfectly Posh bonuses up for grabs!

Shopping Spree-asy – Va Va Voom

Two lucky players will win ASOS Vouchers so they can update their wardrobes according to the season. One winner must bingo the most on the Shopping Bag pattern and the other must wager the most on Shopping Spree Instant Game. This is a weekend Promotion running from Friday 00.00 until Sunday 23.59 for funded only players.

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A new Mecca Bingo land-based bingo club will be opening very shortly in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. It’s quite a novelty and a refreshing change because these days more bingo clubs seem to be closing than opening. The club is due to open in about two months, but you can take a virtual tour around the new club by logging onto the Mecca Bingo online bingo site and clicking on Mecca Bingo Beeston on the home page.

GALA BINGO JACKPOT
Gala Bingo’s High Five jackpot payouts have now exceeded £25 million. Just last week two winners from Glasgow and Liverpool were lucky enough to share £71,000. Due to customer demand, Gala Bingo withdrew from the National Bingo game in September 2008 and since then has been concentrating on the High Five Jackpot games, obviously to the benefit of its players.

THIS WEEK AT MECCA BINGO
If you play online bingo at Mecca Bingo this week, until Friday 13th March, you don’t have to win to win! No I haven’t repeated myself, read on! If you deposit £20 into your online bingo account this week and don’t win anything, your account will be credited with a free £10 bonus on Saturday. No Win, No Worries!

JACKPOTCITY.COM IN SWEDISH
Good news for Scandinavian players, they now have the opportunity to play online bingo in Swedish on JackpotCity.com. Online bingo has been available to all Scandinavian players since last month with Swedish chat moderators and online bingo games available 24 hours a day.

ONLINE BINGO ADDICTION FOR FEW
Most people in the UK play online bingo for the fun of it, to enjoy their leisure time and no harm is done. However, there is a small, and it is believed to be about a 2% minority of the entire gambling population in the UK, that find playing online bingo addictive. Unfortunately, it is not just the addicted involved, but also the family and friends. Anyone who thinks they or someone they know might be on the verge of addiction should contact Gamblers Anonymous for advice.

ONLINE BINGO WORK OPPORTUNITIES
Have you ever thought of working for an online bingo site? Apparently there are many jobs to be found and opportunities are constantly coming along in this very competitive and profitable industry. So start searching and you may be luck enough to find work that you will enjoy, even on a part time basis.

ONLINE BINGO FREEFALL
First there was the free cannonball game and now there is the freefall online bingo game where the bingo balls get fired out of the cannons for a freefall flight. Tombola Bingo is doubling the amount of the free cash prizes they give on their online bingo site, so that £20,000 can now be won by their players. Apparently over £3 million pounds is won on their online bingo site every week.

ONLINE BINGO ADVERTISING CHANGES
Advertising agency, Grey London media agency, have been appointed by online bingo site, 888ladies, in a £6 million deal to provide new advertising campaigns during 2009. Likewise, 7Stars media agency have won the advertising contract worth £10.2 million to promote William Hill Plc which will include an exciting campaign for the online bingo site, William Hill Bingo, as well as its sportsbook and casino products.

JOBS CREATED AT MECCA BINGO
Despite the established recession, Mecca Bingo is doing its bit to help the situation. They have a new bingo hall in Beeston in Nottingham, UK, and intend to employ about 65 people. Interviews are being held on 18th and 19th February. It makes a change to hear of a bingo hall being opened instead of closed, as has happened over the last few years.

ONLINE BINGO TO ONLINE SHOPPING
The current heavy snowfalls in the UK are very good for online businesses, not only for online bingo and other entertainment sites, but also for food shops offering online shopping whose customers can’t or don’t want to venture out in the cold and sometimes dangerous weather conditions. Thank goodness for technology.

The JDA Group’s online bingo brand Tombola has produced two new adverts for TV. Unfortunately, because the ASA deems that because of their presentation they might attract children under 15, they have ruled the ads must not be shown again as they are. The JDA Group say they acted on advice given by Clearcast (the ASA’s advertising guidance division) to ensure the ads appealed only to those over 18.

ONLINE BINGO REVIEWS
With the current worldwide economic downturn, so many people are now turning to a cheap and cheerful source of entertainment. Online bingo has proved to supply both fun and excitement with the possibility of winning some money or prizes and many online bingo sites offer this entertainment for free. I-Love-Bingo.co.uk reviews rates all these sites and provides a list of them on their site.

LITTLEWOOD’S ONLINE BINGO
Online bingo players might want to participate in the special tri-lottery game on the Littlewoods Bingo site. The lottery game will take place at 6pm on 30th March and there will be 3 lucky winners of £1000 each. Tickets for the game can be bought, or free tickets are being awarded to online bingo players on each deposit made throughout the month.

SWEDISH ONLINE BINGO
Swedish online bingo players can now experience quality online bingo games thanks to the new site, Svenska Bingo which is powered by Virtue Fusion. Manager of the online bingo site, Philippa Hellberg, said Svenska Bingo wanted to provide a safe environment for their online bingo players and to make it entertaining enough for players to want to return to the site time after time.

BINGO BEATS RECESSION
A recent report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that the UK bingo industry is less affected by the recession than it was thought. According to the report, revenues generated by the bingo industry are only likely to fall by 5% during 2009. The resilience of the game, whether online bingo at home or bingo played at the local halls, will ensure it is a survivor.

ONLINE BINGO PLAYERS TAKE SIDES
According to the public support of online bingo players at Littlewoods Online Bingo site Peter is more popular than Katie. Only 6% of the online bingo players voted for Katie Price, while an enormous 71% voted for Peter Andre. It seems that everyone is feeling more sympathetic towards Peter.

Mecca bingo luckiest customer of the moment is XNIKKIS_HUBBYX. He won his mortgage paid for a full year by Mecca Bingo! How’s that for a prize?

Announced via a live prize draw in our most popular chat room XNIKKIS_HUBBYX won this amazing prize as part of our month long House Bingo promotion in which all customers were given the chance to enter into the draw simply by playing a game of House Bingo throughout August.

XNIKKIS_HUBBYX, 37, had never played Bingo until he discovered his wife’s account; she had been playing online since the start of the year. XNIKKIS_HUBBYX said: “My wife encouraged me to join after she found me using her account. Once I joined I’d only been playing for less than a week before I won the draw.

“It took three or four days to sink in. I couldn’t believe my luck! This is one of the biggest wins so I was very happy!”

A Mecca Bingo spokesman commented: “At Meccabingo we are always looking for new and interesting ways to engage with our customers and offer sought after prizes that truly excite the Bingo community.

“We are extremely pleased for XNIKKIS_HUBBYX and his wife and it’s great to see our loyal customers encouraging new people to join. We hope that they enjoy their mortgage free year.”

Congratulations to XNIKKIS_HUBBYX once again from all of us at Meccabingo.com

Keep an eye out for our September promotions to see if you could be Mecca’s next big winner. Simply visit www.meccabingo.com.