Nichola Dixon remembers playing bingo with her mother at the local Mecca Bingo club in New York Street when she was about 16. Although how she could have been playing bingo at sixteen, when the legal age is eighteen, is quite beyond me?? She also says that she remembers it really wasn’t a very cool thing to do. But that was a far cry from the presenting of a glitzy bingo show for ITV and this is exactly what she is presently doing with Michael Underwood and Melinda Messenger.

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Playtech, the popular online bingo software developer has earmarked the phenomenal amount of ₤112 million for new acquisitions. They managed to raise this money by floating 21 620 946 new ordinary shares onto the stock market at a price of 52p each. The fact that the shares were snatched up and the company raised so much money with the sale of these shares indicates that there is a great deal of investor confidence in Playtech.

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We have often discussed the fact that a regular game of bingo keeps the elderly fit, both physically and mentally, and although this is not a UK story, it certainly bears mentioning in this regard. 107 year old Sarah de Florio who is a resident at Caldwell Skilled Nursing Centre in the US, still plays bingo every Thursday night. (more…)

Online bingo sites are getting really competitive in the prizes they are giving away to loyal players. I go for one, don’t quite know where to start, there are cars, free bingo for prizes, bonuses, promotions, and now Wink Bingo is giving away a prize to New York. This promotion follows in the wake of the release of the “Sex in the City Film”. The promotion is called the “Wink and the City” competition and will be running until the 15^th July 2008. (more…)