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Get yourselves off to Tombola without haste, as the lovely people there are offering a jackpot of up to £100,000 with their completely FREE bingo! Hurry though, as your last chance to play for free is tomorrow (Saturday 25th July!)

The tombola bingo brand has been around for over 50 years so you couldn’t beat them for experience!

Recently they have gone for a tropical look and are offering some fantastic games and promotions including a £25 money match offer for first time players and games that start from as little as 10p!

Tombola pride themselves on how good their online bingo games are but they also have a great games suite (all be it slightly smaller than others) so that you can continue playing in between bingo games. Games include battleships, cinco and rollercoaster to keep you more than amused!

Check out their chat rooms too, they have a really friendly community atmosphere so you can chat to other bingo fans with ease as you play!

So go and take a look at tombola’s online bingo site today and try and win one of their huge jackpots!

After the lobbying and protests outside of parliament last week to lower land based bingo hall tax rates, the Government has not budged on the issue. Bingo fans and industry insiders wanted the Government to backtrack on its 7% increase in tax to the industry introduced in the last budget and reduce the tax back to 15%.

Unfortunately the rate will now remain at 22%, a much higher rate that it’s bookie and casino counterparts.

Bingo players feel that they are being ‘stabbed in the back’ by the government and a Chester bingo hall has retaliated by making voodoo dolls of Alistair Darling.

Gemma Morgan said in the Chester Chronicle, “Alistair Darling is stabbing in the back the very people who put him and the Labour party in power. Now we want him to know how it feels. If he doesn’t keep bingo tax at 15% then we’re worried that clubs like ours could close”.

Bingo halls are currently closing at an alarming rate and a reduce in tax seemed to be a shining light, now the industry must seek to ways to avoid closures and cope with the breakdown of communities that goes with it.

Over the past fortnight crown bingo players have been sat at the edge of their seats watching the Wimbledon tournament to see who will win. Why? They are bingo fans after all! It’s because of Crown’s Wimbledon sweepstake of course!

Each bingo player that signed up and deposited cash were randomly allocated a tennis star to follow and if they won, great prizes were to be had!

The lucky people who were allocated Roger Federer and Serena Williams, usernames wobblywobbly and ebayaddicted each won themselves a fantastic £100 red letter day of their choice.

Those who got pipped to the post were still able to win themselves a brand new tennis set courtesy of Crown Bingo. The runners up were: Muvverann, Linzwinz, Shirley 1975, Lizzieleek, the_truly_evil1, DellaLuckyPants, kathygale, skybluebob and Belgi18.

So not only congratulations to Federer and Serena but well done to all of those lucky Wimbledon sweepstake winners!

Keep your eyes peeled for even more fantastic prizes and games which this month includes retro July and fair and square Tuesdays so that we can report more about Crown’s latest winners!

45 more job losses have been announced since the 300 unveiled previously during the week and the closure of bingo halls at Gala Coral. This time headquarters has been hit the most, in particular marketing operations.
The move is to streamline and integrate both land and online aspects of the business in order to save money due to the current economic downturn.

The effects of the redundancies has not yet been felt, however it will more than likely show through more and more as the weeks progress.

Gala Coral will save £10m after this initiative is compete. The company has reported debts of over £2.5 billion and is desperately trying to save money wherever they can.

Online bingo fans need not fret yet though, we have been assured that the online part of the business will run as normal whilst the moves go ahead.

Bingo Fans from around theUK have held a protest in London after the government announced another increase in taxes on the already struggling industy.

Large numbers of local halls have struggled to cope with the huge amouts of taxation handed to them by the governement. This coupled with the rise of online gaming sites has resulted in a visitor numbers at halls falling. The smoking ban also forced many to play bingo using internet sites in the comfort of their own home.

Taxes have recently risen from 15 % to 22 %, but this has not been forced on the Casino or Betting industry. Avid bingo fans claim this is a sexist move and have shown their disapproval by staging a protest outside the House’s of Parliment.

The story also reached the BBC 10 0 Clock news yesterday and we wish the protester’s all the best in their campaign!