Bingo has a long association with professional football, with sponsorship deals dating all the way back to the 1980s. These days bingo companies are part of a wider mix of gambling brands that appear on football shirts and in stadiums, but recent controversies involving high-profile players have raised questions over the future of football’s relationship with the gambling industry. Millions of people watch football at home and at stadiums around...

Staff at tombola are facing “the very real possibility of job cuts” after Europe’s biggest online bingo website announced plans to scale back its customer experience team, customer support personnel and safeplay advisers. Despite being one of the most high profile and popular online bingo brands in the UK and one most people could name, the potential job cuts were perhaps unavoidable once the outcome of being reviewed as an...

Imagine getting away from it all in the middle of January and lying on a sunny beach somewhere, listening to the waves while topping up your tan just after Christmas. If that sounds like paradise to you, we’ve found the destinations that could make your dreams of catching some winter sun come true. If you live anywhere towards the upper reaches of the northern hemisphere, winter can be a drag....

Land-based bingo halls haven’t had the easiest time in the last few years but there have been reasons for bingo players to celebrate in 2023 as new destinations have opened their doors at various locations around the country. The sight of a closed-down bingo hall alongside a once bustling high street has been all-too-common in recent times, but there have been positive signals of a mini revival for land-based bingo...

Do people love bingo where you live? Has your town got a legendary bingo hall with a great atmosphere? Does your hometown have a habit of producing lucky winners? In this article, we explore the places in the UK where bingo really is king. People have been playing bingo in the United Kingdom for more than 200 years, but it was in the second half of the 20th century that...

They say playing live music is a young person’s game, but some of the world’s most popular musical artists have been performing on stages all over the world since the 1940s! In this article we take a look at 10 of the performers whose talent is matched by their longevity, with many showing no signs of hanging up their guitars and microphones anytime soon. Some of the greatest musicians in...

Remember the heatwave that hit the United Kingdom in May and June? Or has it all been washed out of your memory by the torrential rain that came down in July and August? In this article we take a look back over summer 2023 and ask the question: how will this year be remembered by members of the public and by the bingo industry? We can let you into a...

Margot Robbie’s iconic performance in the lead role of Barbie has ensured that there is a place for a woman on the list of highest paid movie stars of 2023, the rest of which are, shockingly, all men! The summer of 2023 has seen crowds return to the cinema in droves to watch Robbie star alongside Ryan Gosling in Barbie or to see Emily Blunt taking a starring role in...

There is no better time to be settling down to some brilliant television than autumn, and as the weather starts to cool down and the nights draw in there is plenty to look forward to from your favourite actors and writers on various channels and streaming services in the months ahead. We’ve been spoiled by great TV dramas in the last few years, with shows like The Last of Us,...

It’s almost time for another series of Great British Bake Off and to get you in the mood we’re taking a look at the 10 most successful contestants to have appeared on the hit Channel 4 TV show and what they have been up to since their time in the tent. A new batch of contestants is set to be announced for the 14th series of Bake Off, which begins...