Edward Thompson one of the biggest suppliers of bingo stationary has invested £2m in a new bingo printing machine. The company based up in Sunderland can produce up to 200m bingo tickets a week after installing the high-speed digital colour printing press.

The Tombola TV advert showing a white man in a dinner suit and a black man in a floral shirt sitting by a fire has been banned. In the ad the black man is playing a ukulele and repeating in song everything the other man said.

When we set up Bingosupermarket we made numerous mistakes ourselves in choosing companies to build and host our website throwing away £1,000's in costs. It would seem we were not the only one.

While we regularly see details in the press regarding campaings to keep local bingo clubs open we have never seen a campaign with the aim of knocking down a bingo club. It has been claimed that the Mecca Bingo club in Norwich is an eyesore, and nearly 60 years ago an agreement was reached that the building would be knocked down when the lease expired!

Virtue Fusion, the bingo group based in Alderney, has launched a brand new game across its network of sites.

ITV is returning to bingo. The broadcasting giant previously pulled the plug on its 'bingo night live' project last year. Senior managers at ITV have clearly had a change of heart and are missing the bingo presence and have just re-launched online site choosing Cashcade as a partner for the new venture.

Ever fancy being an Emmerdale star? Well as you will more than likely all know Tombola is the sponser of of one of the top UK soaps. With 5 episodes a week the ITV series is big hit with viewers.

Well if you have a quiet weekend planned it might be worth a visit to Crown Bingo. Every Saturday it is BOGOF, that's buy one get one and free.

The Opera Bingo site which closed in 2004 may be knocked down. The site, built in the late 1800s, currently houses a number of shops and had previously also been a cinema and bingo club.

According to an article in The Times, Gala Coral, the UK's largest bingo operator could see the existing debt pile cut from £2.6 billion to £1.85 billion.  Bingo Supermarket reported last month that Gala was in refinancing talks with a consortium of investors led by Apollo Management along with Goldman Sachs, Park Square and Cerebus Capital Management.