Today is the day for the bingo industry to join together and demonstrate outside the houses of Parliament against the recent bingo duty rise.

Bingo Supermarket are in attendance to give you the latest news on the days events as they unfold. Hourly updates and reports will be given over the official bingosupermarket twitter feed. If you are a tweeter, then please click the link and tick the follow icon, you can be sure of getting up to minute news as it happens.

Bingo Supermarket will issue a full run down of the days action later this evening around 8.30pm in this Bingo Supermarket news section.

Well over 500 bingo players will be taking part in the protest and the national and regional press will be on The Green in Westminster. MPs will also come across to show their support for the bingo industry. BBC radio Leeds will be speaking to a bingo club manager at 7.40am this morning on their breakfast show. Mr Alan Gamban is the General Manager of the Ritz Bingo club in Castleford and is outraged at the harm this tax hike has given to the club he devotes his life to.

Sandra Thompson will be reporting and taking photos of the event and sending them direct to regional newspapers in the UK to hit the streets before the weekend.

Bingo representatives including Mecca, Gala, The Bingo Association and Independent Bingo operator Rob Garrard have all met with the Treasury to voice their concerns. Mr Garrard who owns the Beach Bingo Club in Northshields has had a visit from Government Minister Alan Campbell, Mr Garrard was successful in getting the support of this high profile MP and Mr Campbell has now voiced his concerns for the bingo industry in the press and will ask the Treasury to further consider the implications of continuing with this tax.

In an interview with Bingo Supermarket, Mr Garrard is delighted at the support and response from Mr Campbell and hopes he will play a vital role in getting the bingo duty back down to 15 percent.

A report in the Financial Times states that the Government have made an error in the calculations on the effect this would have on land based bingo clubs. However although the justification of the rise is not forthcoming, the Government are yet to make any commitments in reviewing the tax increase that was brought in on the last budget.