Mr. Binley believes that bingo plays a useful supporting social role in the community, as many people do – in fact they do more good than many of the Governments social services. He commented that he had been to the local bingo hall on several occasions and has seen the type of social networks and friendships that come about. It is a warm and comfy place for older people who like to visit during the day and they can get a nice cup of tea and even a hot meal if they are alone and don’t feel like cooking for one. Bingo is a soft gambling activity, with the least of known gambling problems and yet Granny Tax is one of the highest rates of taxes. If taxes were fairer, the prizes could be higher which would encourage more people to play.

In the meantime a nice big winner recently took an £11,023 prize at Beacon Bingo online, while playing Thors Thunder on their laptop in the lounge. She is also a member at the Beacon Cricklewood which is the largest bingo club in the world. She started playing bingo online just a few months ago, and obviously thinks it is flipping fantastic. Register at this site today and you can play bingo too, you can also play Thors Thunder if you like and you don’t need to wait for a seat to vacate to get your turn to play.

Now that the summer nights are gone a cruise along the River Seine is still as romantic, Paris is after all the Capital City of luurve! They have your travel and Three Star hotel accommodation sorted out, so all you will need is some spending money; that is unless you intend to live on love and fresh air. You could play some games at Virgin Bingo and perhaps win some money to spend. Heck you can even play free bingo at this site and win some brilliant cash prizes. They have a super X Factor promotion still on at the moment and this offers 2 hours of free bingo in the Hidden Treasure room every Saturday night.

Use the code “XFACTOR4″ when you play at Virgin Bingo on Saturday night and this will pop the room open for you. Then buy yourself some Supertickets because these can multiply your wins by 5, 10 or even 20 times the prize money. Super tickets only cost 5p each and you could be super-sizing your free bingo prizes.

Then don’t miss playing at Virgin Bingo this Wednesday they have a whole Sony Entertainment Bundle to give away. Check it out at the site and play; these are prizes you want to win.

The woman who wants to remain anonymous certainly won’t be short of friend at her local club as due to the nature of the high 5 game, half of the total winnings were shared between each of the 61 players in attendance with each player taking away £2,049.18! Now you understand why I wanted to be there!

The 76 year old winner commented: “I am absolutely ecstatic with the win. It hasn’t really sunk in yet – when I got home from bingo I just sat staring into space while it hit me! I’m going to spend the money on my kids, my grandchildren and some home improvements. I’m even more overwhelmed that I helped so many other people to win over £2,000 each. Everyone has been telling me all the things they’ll be able to do with the money, like take their kids on a long summer holiday. I’ve been coming to this club every Sunday for years and always dreamed of winning the big one but I won’t stop coming to Gala Bingo – I love it!’”

Ade Stain, Gala Manager of Ashmore Park added: “We’re absolutely thrilled for her. We didn’t realise at first how much she’d won – I went over to check her claim on the full house and suddenly it dawned on me that she had called on number five, which meant that she won the High 5 jackpot. Everyone was so shocked – we had to stop the bingo because everyone was dancing around and hugging each other! The lady’s partner had to go outside to calm down! The atmosphere was electric. The staff were all so excited for the players as everyone won, and they were texting their colleagues who weren’t working that day. Gala Ashmore Park is a friendly club and Sunday was certainly a day to remember.”

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There are tickets to Las Vegas, Dubai and Toyko as well as other world class destination and as Virgin Bingo is part of the Virgin Games group, you can also earn V*Points as part of a single gaming wallet if you play on the poker or casino sites too. The key to earn more points is to look out for V*Points specials, sometimes these are doubled, and if you play bingo, you earn more points than any other games. You earn these points for all your cash purchases at the site and besides flying miles, points can be used to trade for free bingo. They can also be used to redeem shopping vouchers and leisure vouchers too. Spend them on Virgin Experiences if you like, and there are hundreds of these to choose from. They range from hotel stays to spa days, sports car experiences and even diving with sharks or owl spotting. The sky is quite literally the limit for V*Points earners and all you have to do is play online bingo!

There is no other points system at any other UK bingo site that is like this. It is a draw card for Virgin Bingo members and quite honestly; like all other Richard Branson products, the best value for money and quality you will find!

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Register today and receive a cash match first deposit bonus which is commensurate with the size of your deposit. This is another new, but also quite unique feature to Costa Bingo. It rewards players for making larger deposits, but also does not preclude players with smaller amounts to play with. All bingo players are different and they have all got different amounts of money they can afford to spend.

The first deposit bonus starts at a fiver and you get 100%, so you will have £10 to play with. Next is a deposit of £10 for a 200% deposit bonus, giving you £30 to play with. The Top bonus is 250% on deposits of £20 or more and this will give you a lot more bonus money to spend.

Each of these deposit methods also allows first time depositors to play in 24 hours worth of First Time Depositor Freebies. These are free bingo games; they play every 15 minutes and offer a £20 prize pool. This is how Costa Bingo is run and continues to be run and is also only one of the small things that make it the best on the net!

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Register to play for real money and make a deposit of £10, you don’t have to do any more, they will give you £15 free, and I notice at the site they have not changed redeposit details. Currently they are offering re-deposit bonuses on amounts from £10 not £20, so perhaps now is the right time to join.

Free bingo plays at 888 Ladies 24/7 on the hour and there is one whopping free bingo game hosted at 7pm every night. This game holds a guaranteed prize pool of £300 during the week and £500 on weekends, so is not to be missed. They have also extended the opportunities to win by adding a 1TG prize.

Keep your eyes down for specials at 888 Ladies Bingo, I am waiting for them to come on board with Caribbean Cruise prizes for the World Bingo Champions, but we shall have to wait and see. In the meantime there are a few new features coming soon and these include auto buy, not to be mistaken for pre-buy and “Presenting Pressies”, or virtual gifts so you can suck up to your fellow roomies.

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This site is also bold enough to suggest that; I quote: “£1,000,000 Jackpot – a new Spectra Millionaire is born every day!” And while I have no problem with artistic license this is really stretching the truth. I never trust sites that don’t regularly publish winners and as a TV and £500 holiday is up for grabs every alternate Thursday, where are the winners? For that matter where are these millionaires the site creates every day? Winners of the TV are published at the site, but these are still the same faces from three years ago, and the same faces are up at all 70 sites. Spectra Bingo, or Dragonfish goes to the trouble to publish the names of the weekend prize winners of table tennis sets or kitchen appliances, but not the £500 Holiday and TV winners, why is this?

Weekend promotions for playing the most games, wagering the most, bingoing the most on lucky numbers etcetera are all paid out in bonus funds, never in cash and these too are always the same. In a word “dull, dull, dull”, oops that was three words!

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Sky Bingo has also just got even better thanks to their customers input. There are three new bingo rooms, and as customers want more chances to win they have made five and four prizes available in the 75 and 80 ball bingo games. They have also capped the amount of ticket purchases in these rooms to enable more chances for everyone to win and provided 24/7 CM’s.

Speed 90 Bingo now plays every three minutes and gives away over £20 000 in prizes guaranteed every week, they are open from 12pm to midnight. If you like free bingo and who doesn’t? Three hours worth of games play daily in dedicated free bingo rooms. There is also daily BOGOF bingo in the Sky Value and Premium rooms and more opportunities to win big for pennies in the Daily Triple Play with a £100 prize for 1p tickets at 9pm, £250 for 5p per ticket at 9:30pm and £1000 for just 10p per ticket at 10pm.

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Our experience with huge deposit and redeposit bonuses is the player becomes entangle in these and has very little hope of ever getting out with a reasonable cash prize. Also the UK online bingo player has matured and they are a sophisticated audience. They want to win tickets to live shows, chocolates, branded items, big guaranteed cash prizes and fun gifts too. Gifts they would not normally spoil themselves with such as handbags, holidays, spa treatments and more.

There are hundreds of UK online bingo sites and many of them are geared to respond aggressively to changes in the market. My theory is, why play at a Site like Wow Bingo, for bonuses galore, when you can be playing at one of a dozen other sites and have a look in on a prize of one of 10 holidays to South Africa or a three day shopping trip to New York? Wow Bingo is like UK bingo was when it first started nearly a decade ago, have they got caught up in a time warp?

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Promotions are often offered in popular British Magazines and everyone’s a winner crops up from time to time. Treasure map is the free bingo game and if you spend ₤2 on bingo the week before, you get to play Treasure map for an entire week after; win up to ₤500 in this free bingo game and they give away over ₤20 000 worth of prizes every week. 

Bingo Links are another popular promotion and one game for ₤1 000 is on offer in Bingo 90 links at 9pm every night. Links games are regularly a promotional feature and till the 14th May two extra ₤1 000 games can be played every lunch time.  

Tombola Bingo is the sponsor of the British ITV soapie Emmerdale and in total ₤3 million worth of prizes is given away weekly. One extra special lucky winner in Bingo 90 even missed her big win last year. She set her Bingo 90 game up, realised she had run out of coffee and went to the shop, on her return she found her account had increase to nearly ₤20 000, so she missed all the excitement!

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