With its new look studios, UK’s Gala Bingo TV is now running on top form.  You can play bingo on TV in your lounge, but you will think you are playing in a bingo hall with a live bingo caller.  Gala Bingo TV gives viewers the option to play either bingo or roulette, whilst their online bingo site has many interesting bingo promotions for their players to take advantage of.

Spanish online bingo players can now play the game and join the chat rooms in their own language at JackpotCity.com .  90 ball Spanish-style online bingo games are now available and all new players will get a free €15 bonus when they sign up.

The free online bingo site LiveBingo.com is fast becoming a household name in the UK.  They are now supporting the RSPCA in a campaign which will help people get their pets spayed, very important in this time of recession when it’s often difficult to even keep existing pets.  LiveBingo.com is offering £30 each to the first 100 Live Bingo members who present a recent invoice for the spaying of their pet.  Good idea.

Many online bingo sites in the UK are allowing online bingo players to bet on who will be the next US president.   Obama seems to have a good lead, but to be honest it’s anybody’s guess who will be voted in.  Obama has remained uncommitted regarding his stand on online gambling (online bingo, casino, poker or sportsbetting, whilst McCain appears to be sympathetic to the issues.

Playing online bingo at bet365 will give you a chance to win two tickets to see Sir Elton John on his 2008 Red Piano Tour in Paris.  Bet365 is the 16th largest private company in the UK and employs over 800 people.  The site boasts over 2 million players in 140 different countries so at this moment the lucky winner of the tickets could be absolutely anywhere in the world.

If not, you soon will.  Everyone knows how to play Monopoly and lots of people know how to play Bingo, join them together and you have a brand new game, Bingopoly, devised by Webroute Services.  It sounds as if it’s going to be lots of fun.  Beware of ending up in Paupers Prison (remember the jail in the corner) as you will lose points.  You will also lose points if you bribe the chatmaster!

Yet another bingo hall nearly disappeared last week as an electrical fault caused a fire at the Cricklewood based Beacon Bingo hall.  Luckily it was not too badly damaged and players will be able to return quite soon.  It could have been catastrophic for the Cricklewood players as the Mecca Bingo club in Kilburn closed down last year which means they would have had to travel for miles to find another club.  Now we know why an increasing number of players are changing to online bingo.

Vandals set fire to an old disused bingo hall in Glasgow three months ago and asbestos cement was found in the roof of the building by the construction crew clearing up afterwards.  Residents are furious that the local council had not told them previously about the presence of this highly dangerous material and it appears that the council members have known about it for some time.  The motto of this story is that it’s safer to play online bingo in your own home.

Churches and other groups running small bingo games are paying a state tax that take funds away from charities and communities.  This tax is about to be examined with hearings to review the situation due to take place in Washington within the next two weeks.  The small bingo operators will also get their chance to state their case at a public hearing being held by the Joint Performance Review Committee’ on 24th September.

Residents of Inverness are opposing the proposed building of a 96-bedroom hotel on the riverside site of a 70-year old building that used to house a bingo hall.  The developers say the building, not used since 2005, would have to be knocked down to make room for the new hotel because it would not be easy to convert.
Members of the Inverness Civic Trust say the proposed hotel is an ugly building and will do nothing to preserve the character of the area.   A fight for the future.