Jo Collins, who works as a driver at a Special Needs School in England, set a new world record when she won more than £162,000 playing bingo online. She had been playing Gala Bingo Online for only five days.

Jo, 52, is the mother of three children and she has ten grandchildren. She has been married for 35 years and is also a volunteer in the program Meals on Wheels. Jo plans to carry on with her driving job. She said she is going to use the money to pay off the mortgage and the car and to go on a trip to Australia to visit old friends.

Yesterday the “Consell” (Council of Catalunya) approved a new Bingo regulation that includes the simultaneous and electronic versions of Bingo game.

According to Esteban González Pons, Consell’s spokesman, businessmen proposed the changes made to bingo regulations.

He also underlined the importance of this industry, which has opened more than 75 Bingo Halls in the community and holds a game volume of 40 million Bingo cards per year.

The increasing number of illegal lotteries is a reality in Asturias. This phenomenon is not only been studied by the Gambling Brigade and reported by local bingos, but also the national TV channels are covering what is happening in the Principality.

Meanwhile, the Regional Bingos Association (Asebi) is waiting for the result of the six demands presented last month, and also waiting for the National Police to close these illegal businesses.

Early this month, four elderly citizens from the State of Kentucky were found guilty of tax evasion and fraud conspiracy against the government. The accusation clearly explains the way the accused stole the money collected at a shop where a charity bingo had been held and, apparently, forgot to declare the $782.000 dollars earned. These four men are between 60 and 65 years old. They declared innocent of the charges they are being accused of.

Chegwin, the children’s TV presenter who worked on the show Multicoloured Swap Shop together with Noel Edmonds and later had his own show, Cheggers Plays Pop, is also a renowned bingo player.

In 2001, he started a website where people could play different versions of shows like This Morning and The Generation Game.

Cheggers Bingo is backed by gaming operator St. Minver Ltd., based in Gibraltar.

El Senado de Colorado está de acuerdo en que se excluya a los salones de Bingo de la prohibición de fumar que regirá en todo el estado.

El proyecto propone que las salas de Bingo se unan a los únicos lugares del estado de Colorado que permanecen fuera de la prohibición de fumar: hipódromos, cigarrerías, casinos, bares de bebidas selectas y zonas especiales para fumadores en los aeropuertos.

Bingo players now have a new online resource to consult since the development of the new Bingo Ace site.

The main advantages of visiting this site are many, from having access to the latest bingo news to keeping track of celebrity bingo players. Some of the games provided by Bingo Ace include 90 ball UK bingo, blackjack, roulette and slots.

A Bismarck bingo parlor is scrapping plans to allow children as young as 10 to play.

Dakota Skies Bingo parlor in Bismarck, operated by Prairie Public Broadcasting, changed its policy to allow younger children to play in November. The group's board of directors recently reversed its policy. The action came after some complained about the facility allowing children to gamble.

A bingo fundraiser for Mission Possible, a program that builds homes for low-income people in Mexico, will be held Sunday, Jan. 29 at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dillon. The event will run from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the church, which is located at 715 E. Bannack St. across the street from the Cub Baseball Field and Park.

Bingo.com is one of the most popular online bingo sites. It has more than 1.200.000 subscribers, and receives approximately 800 new daily visitors. Besides having fun, they want to play and win.

This excellent site is one of the most organized and visited of the Internet. Since its appearance in 1999, more than 3.000 million bingo cards have been played. Visitors are so satisfied with the games’ quality, that on average they stay at the site about 85 minutes!