It was while this lucky woman living in Penvcae near Wrexham was playing bingo at the Mecca Club that she had won the National Bingo Game prize. With this win, this player who preferred to remain anonymous had won 17,255 pounds and the regional prize of 2,172 pounds. In addition to this, the lucky woman had also won the house prize of 133 pounds.
Actually, the national prize for the bingo game that evening was worth 34,150 pounds. However as she had to share this win with another player in Carlisle, the winning amount was lowered to 17,255 pounds.
This other bingo player in Carlisle had completed the full house with 40 numbers, which was the lowest call amongst 470 clubs that played nationwide. The lucky woman from Wrexham is a 39 year old woman, who is happily married.
She claims that she could not believe the fact that she had won such a large prize. On hearing about the win, she just sat there with a big smile, with tears of joy running down. She has been playing bingo for ten years practically once, every four to six weeks at the Mecca.
She plans to use the money she had won in the bingo game for her home improvement needs, to take a holiday with her husband and to save the remainder money for a rainy day.
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Bingo news of the Chancellor of Exchequer Alistair Darling not removing VAT from bingo charges has shocked the bingo industry. In fact, instead, the Chancellor has decided to increase the tax burden levied on bingo through higher rates of amusement machine license duty (AMLD).
Paul Talbovs, the chief executive of Bingo Association, describes this piece of bingo news to be ‘a slap in the face’ for bingo players in the country. This is because he says there is absolutely no need of players being penalized with double taxation when compared to other gambling products; there is only a single tax to be paid.
The bingo operators are complaining that they are the only people in the gambling industry that are hit by double taxation. The taxes they have to pay for bingo are 15% gaming duty and a VAT of 17.5%.
They state that bingo is a soft form of gambling, which is usually played by senior people and poor people, for lower stakes. With this increased tax burden, the industry warns that there is a possibility of hundreds of clubs closing down.
Moreover, bingo clubs have already been badly affected by the smoking ban and the loss of lucrative slot machines because of the changes that have been made to the regulations of the industry.
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Family pets become more a part of the family after spending lots of time with them. And this is truly proven in this case when the Taylors were playing a game of Mirror Bingo with their family cockatoo in the hall. Playing Mirror bingo is something this family does together almost every night of the week.
As usual, they shout out Bingo! when they score a winning combination in their bingo cards. So one day when the owners Chris, aged 34 and Lorraine aged 32 were playing Mirror Bingo one night when suddenly their Cockatoo, Oscar too started shouting out cries of ‘Bingo!” with the other members of the family!
They were truly amazed with this, and surmised that this happened as they played Mirror Bingo practically every night, And as they had a few wins, Oscar must have heard Chris when he had shouted ‘Bingo!” really loudly.
Since then, the six year old cockatoo joins the family of Newport, Pagnell, Bucks in shouting out ‘Bingo!” whenever the family celebrates a win. In fact, their daughter, Sydney of age 11 has been encouraging the cockatoo to play with them as Mirror Bingo is not only interesting and exciting, it is a great polly thriller.
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