East London’s answer to a bingo hall, Dabbers Social in Houndsditch, has crowned its latest Comedy Caller champion and this year’s edition threw up a first in the competition’s six-year history. The grand final was an all-character one, with all four hopefuls performing entirely through invented alter-egos rather than as themselves. It made for a […]
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You would not, on the face of it, expect one of South London’s most storied rock and roll addresses to be a bingo hall. Yet that is exactly what Buzz Bingo in Tooting is and, this past weekend, a grassroots campaign that ran for the best part of three years has seen the Grade I-listed
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Flutter Entertainment, the FTSE 100 giant behind Paddy Power, Betfair, Sky Bet and the American juggernaut FanDuel, has confirmed that it will delist from the London Stock Exchange this summer, bringing an end to a 26-year run on the London market that began when its predecessor, Paddy Power, first floated in the December of 2000.
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A poker player banned from the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square has lost his bid to claim £100,000 in damages from the venue, with a judge at Central London County Court throwing out the case entirely. Dr Mortaza Sahibzada, a former engineering researcher, argued that the ban breached his contract with the casino and was
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Simon Thomas, the Executive Chairman of the Hippodrome Casino, has used his LinkedIn profile to make the case that Leicester Square deserves an official title it doesn’t currently have, which is that of London’s Casino Quarter. His argument rests on the sheer density of casino entertainment now packed into the square. Alongside the Hippodrome sit
Bingo, but not as your nan would recognise it. Mingo Bingo is a glow-in-the-dark take on the old dabber-and-book routine, all neon lights, confetti and chart tunes. If that sounds like your sort of bag, then the good news is that it is settling in for a run of dates at Scala in King’s Cross.
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Sadiq Khan’s four-year-old promise to strip gambling adverts from the Tube network is no closer to happening, but London’s boroughs have decided they’re not going to just sit around waiting for Whitehall to catch up. A new Gambling Commission report laying out just how much of the capital is betting has reignited pressure on the
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Is there a building in the West End that has changed its mind about what it wants to be more often than the Trocadero? From music hall to waxworks, a Guinness World Records attraction to Segaworld, via an indoor theme park that never quite worked and floor upon floor of tourist gift shops, the great
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The bingo has stopped for good in Wood Green. A little over a fortnight after Mecca called the last number at its Lordship Lane club, Haringey Council has signed off on the plan that will pull the old hall down and put student rooms in its place. There will be rather a lot of them
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