Bingo players from the local Beacon Bingo hall in Cricklewood were left bereft after their bingo club went up in flames in the early hours of the morning. It took firefighters ages to get the blaze under control. This is really bad news for the residents of Cricklewood because another local bingo hall, the Mecca was closed last year. Now residents are without a local venue to play bingo in and as we know this can have devastating effects on the social lives of the elderly and lonely.
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Bingo Hall Goes Up In Flames
Sunday, October 5th, 2008Rank Group (Mecca Bingo) On-sells Pension Plan
Thursday, February 28th, 2008The beleaguered Rank Group, who operated Mecca Bingo both land-based and online, pretty much went through a really hard time financially last year, there were constant threats of take-over from various large concerns trying to squeeze into their operations, believing that by bailing them out they would be able to obtain shares cheaply.
Prescot Winner Breaks the Bingo Bank
Friday, January 11th, 2008A young woman from Prescot has just received the most unbelievable bingo win imaginable. She actually managed to catch a £264,288 in the Mecca Millionaire game. Pauline Davies is only twenty-six years old and she won the huge jackpot on only her second visit to the Mecca Bingo Club in Knotty Ash.
The Latest News in the Mecca Bingo (Rank) Saga
Thursday, December 20th, 2007As has been the case for some time now, no news seems to be good news for the Rank Group (Mecca Bingo). We have read about this ongoing fiasco nearly daily for quite some weeks now and it seem that Harrah’s Entertainment Inc ( A US gaming company) have again approached Rank for a stake in their Mecca Bingo organisation, and apparently this is not the first time that Mecca bingo have been approached by the US gaming giant.
