Peckham’s Wetherspoons on the high street, The Kentish Drovers, has been up for sale for well over a year and it now looks as though its next life might have nothing to do with pints at all. A planning application was lodged with Southwark Council, proposing turning the ground floor and basement into a bingo […]

Bongo’s Bingo has announced its biggest Halloween run yet, with a record 47 venues across the country hosting a Halloween Special edition of the show throughout October, with London getting several dates of its own across three different venues. The Halloween Special keeps the format that has made Bongo’s Bingo a fixture of stag do’s,

Mecca Bingo has pulled its application to keep its Dagenham venue open day and night, every day of the week, just days after Barking and Dagenham Council opened a public consultation on toughening its approach to gambling. Whilst the two events have not been formally linked by either party, the timing is difficult to ignore.

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

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