No-one wants to bid for many of 16 new UK casino licences up for grabs because of the economic slump, it has been claimed. The licences — made available last year when the financial picture was much rosier — now don’t look such a hot prospect. Potential  bidders — including Rank, Gala Coral and Genting […]

Six Brits have been arrested for playing a charity bingo game in a winter sunshine resort. Cops swooped as the party played innocently in a bar in the popular tourist resort of Altinkum. Tip-off After being held for several hours, the six were each fined £55 for unregulated gambling. Nine other Britons in the bar […]

A chance to escape the financial doom and gloom may be encouraging some punters to wager a little more at Britain’s bingo halls and casino tables. That’s what figures from one of the country’s biggest entertainment names seems to show. While admissions at Mecca Bingo halls fell by 5 per cent over the last 15 […]