Bingo Bash for Centaury Old Amelia

Amelia turned 100 years old on 5th November and she celebrated this milestone in her life by holding a big birthday bash at her local British Legion Club in Rumney, Cardiff, where she still play bingo at least once a week. It was reported that more than 150 people attended her big birthday event to congratulate the lady, but due to an error when her father registered her date of birth with the registry office when she was born, Amelia was still waiting from her card from the Queen as her dad put her date of birth down as 15th November instead of 5th November.

Her daughter Violet said: “It was a fantastic night. She is really well known and liked, and you could see that from the amount of people that came to the party. My mother plays bingo in the club every week and at the Castle Bingo club as well. They got her a big card and a cake. We lost count of the cards and presents by the end of the night because there were so many. She is a wonderful mother and we all think the world of her. You only have to speak to her to realise how sharp she still is and it’s a great landmark to reach 100 years old.”

When Amelia was born back on 5th November 1908, it was quite normal for married couples to have large families and Amelia herself was one of 10 children, in today’s age a family that has anything over three children seems to make people look twice, but happily that was not the case back then. Amelia married Charles Turner and they themselves went on to have three daughters, Doreen, Joyce and Violet and the plucky lady currently resides with her daughter Violet and husband Peter in Llanrumney.

It has been thought for some time that the game of bingo can help to keep the mind active and alert and if Amelia is anything to go by with her weekly games of bingo that she still plays play live bingo games in bingo sites, she is another case that helps to support this fact. Bingo is also one of the most social forms leisure gaming activities in the world to partake in, as it really can help to bring whole communities together and it is now played by the young and old alike.

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Written by Rob
Monday, 17 November 2008
http://www.unluckyforsome.co.uk/bingo-news/bingo-bash-for-centaury-old-amelia-1352.html

No Bingo News from National Bingo Game

Since Gala Bingo withdrew from the National Bingo game on 31 August 2008, the National Bingo Game has ceased to post bingo sites news on their web site. The National Bingo Game have become somewhat of a bingo initiation in the UK and it revolutionised the way bingo was played in Britain from the very first moment it hit our land based bingo halls back in June 1986. This was no easy task either bringing the National Bingo game to millions of bingo players throughout the UK bingo as it had to pass Parliamentary legislation and a new Bingo Game Act, before it could be played in bingo clubs up and down the country.

Bingo clubs first became established in the 1960’s in Britain, but it was not until the 80,s that play bingo brought players the chance to win life changing amounts of cash and this was largely due to the National Bingo Game and the way that it could link lots of different bingo clubs together to take part in just the one bingo game.

Gala Bingo took the decision to withdraw from the National Bingo game earlier this year and they have also since withdrawn from the Bingo Association, which is a valuable voice for the free bingo industry as a whole. The new high 5 jackpot game was the reason behind these recent changes that have taken place at Gala Bingo and according to reports it has proved to be a big success with Gala Bingo Players.

Mecca Bingo and other land based bingo halls like Castle Bingo, Top Ten Bingo etc, still continue to run the National Bingo Game in their respective bingo halls, but unfortunately you cannot now participate in this game at any Gala Bingo Club. No bingo news at all has been forthcoming for the National Bingo Game since the end of August 2008, which begs the question, just why is this so? Either there have been no big winners of the National Bingo Game since August this year, but I find that very hard to believe or Gala Bingo had some sort of hand in brining bingo news to their online web site. To play bingo online you have to bingo download software. Maybe neither of the latter are true, but it would be good to see the National Bingo Game once more keep bingo players throughout the UK up to date with what has been happening in our bingo halls with respect of this great bingo game.

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Written by Hollie
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
http://www.unluckyforsome.co.uk/bingo-news/no-bingo-news-from-national-bingo-game-1337.html