Gala Coral staff to attempt world record on Mount Everest

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:30:48 GMT

A group of die hard bingo lovers are currently in training to prepare for the world’s toughest game of bingo - at 17,500 ft.

Next month, 24 dedicated bingo enthusiasts will tackle Mount Everest, dabber in hand, in an attempt to smash the record for the World's Highest Game of Bingo. The intrepid trekkers will face dehydration, altitude sickness and deep vein thrombosis as they take part in a bingo pilgrimage to Everest’s Base Camp - not to mention frostbitten fingers and toes.

The plucky trekkers, made up of Gala Coral employees from all over the country, have been preparing for the toughest bingo game of their lives by engaging in gruelling training sessions closer to home to ensure they are well prepared for the rigours of playing bingo at 17,500 ft.

The extraordinary challenge is part of a fundraising effort for Gala Coral's nominated charity, Sue Ryder Care. The team hope by scaling the world’s toughest mountain and setting a new world record for playing bingo at altitude they can surpass their fundraising goal. Staff from across Gala Coral has so far raised an £750,000 for Sue Ryder Care and are well on their way to reaching their target of £1 million by the end of 2009.

As well as long distance running and hill walking, Gala Coral team members have been familiarising themselves with high altitude bingo games by practising atop landmarks in their home towns - from the Blackpool Tower (540 ft) to the Gherkin in London (590 ft) and the Beetham Tower in Birmingham (520 ft).

And to guard against the approximate 30% drop in mental agility caused by being at high altitudes, the team have also been sharpening their number dabbing skills by playing double-quick games at their local Gala Bingo clubs.

The Everest trek is just one of a number of ongoing initiatives by the Gala Coral Group. The Gala online bingo site will be hosting 20 dedicated games per day for Sue Ryder Care between 16 - 23 October. The games will be played in the 'Country Club' on galabingo.com.

Gala TV is also dedicating its Sunday evening shows throughout October to Sue Ryder Care, featuring a brand new game where 10p from every £1 spent will go to the charity and broadcasting a series of mini movies that highlight the difference the charity makes to people’s lives.

The trek to play the World's Highest Game of Bingo will commence at Lukla on October 19 and finish at Everest Base Camp on October 24. For more information, please visit the Gala Coral Everest Trek website.

About Gala Bingo:
Gala Bingo is part of Gala Coral Group's Remote Gambling division. This division is responsible for the development, management and operation of the Group's E-Commerce activities in the UK and worldwide through Coral.co.uk, Eurobet.com, galabingo.com and Galacasino .co.uk. The division also operates Coral Telebet, the telephone betting business and is the UK's first operator of digital interactive televised bingo on Gala TV (Sky channel 861).

32Red player continues lucky streak with fifth online casino jackpot win

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:34:07 GMT

32Red, the award-winning online casino operator, has announced another big jackpot winner and confirmed what must stand as one of the longest lucky streaks of all time, as one player hits the same jackpot five times in under one year.

The 32Red player's fifth five figure jackpot win has already hit his bank account - something the player must be getting used to - with 32Red having paid-out over £100,000 to the lucky player since October 2008 when the streak began. Before the end of 2008 the player had already made it four wins from the Cash Splash progressive slot machine and now, with the jackpot win on the 12th September, five have been chalked up and with some time still to spare to make it six.

Pat Harrison, Operations Director for 32Red Online Casino, commented, "We're amazed and thrilled for our player. We regularly have large jackpot winners at 32Red, but it's unusual for one player to have five big wins within a year at the same online casino. It's truly extraordinary. All of us at 32Red are keeping our fingers crossed that the player will go on and make it six and smash his own record for jackpot wins."

Cash Splash is just one of 16 progressive casino games at 32Red Online Casino and comes in the classic 3 reel and the more modern 5 reel format. The jackpot builds as the game is played, so it's growing all the time. Having just been won, the jackpot has been reset to a healthy £15,000, and will be building nicely as 32Red's lucky player spins the Cash Splash reels for yet another jackpot win.

This win comes as 32Red announce the arrival of a new addition to the popular Mega Moolah range of slots: Mega Moolah Isis. This game, like all Mega Moolah games, includes the world's biggest progressive online jackpot - a guaranteed £1,000,000. However, in the past it has grown to as much as £6,200,000 before being won..

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Gala Bingo online launches fundraising Everest game

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:10:03 GMT

Gala Bingo is launching a fundraising Everest game to support its team of intrepid employees who are gearing up to trek to Everest Base Camp for charity in October.

It is hoped the extreme challenge, which will see a 24-strong team of employees trek 75 miles and ascending 2700 metres up the world’s highest mountain, will raise £100k for Gala Coral’s group-wide charity Sue Ryder Care.

The Everest trek is just one of a number of ongoing initiatives by Gala Coral Group, that aims to raise £1million by 2010 for the charity, which provides expert and compassionate care to people living with conditions including cancer, multiple sclerosis, stroke and Huntington’s Disease.

The game started on 27 August and runs for eight weeks, with 10% of ticket sales from the new Everest online bingo game going towards the fundraising total. The game takes place weekly on a Thursday evening at 19.25 (GMT).

Paul Woodward, chief executive at Sue Ryder Care, said: "We’re delighted that a group of employees have volunteered to trek to Everest Base Camp to help raise vital funds for Sue Ryder Care. We hope as many people as possible support their fundraising effort through the dedicated bingo game. By supporting Sue Ryder Care, people across the country help us make a real difference to the lives of thousands of people we care for each year."

The adventurous trek, which can cause mountain altitude sickness, DVTs and dehydration, will commence at Lukla on October 16 and finish at Everest Base Camp on November 3.

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About Gala Bingo
Gala Bingo is part of Gala Coral Group’s Remote Gambling division. This division is responsible for the development, management and operation of the Group's E-Commerce activities in the UK and worldwide through Coral.co.uk, Eurobet.com, galabingo.com and Galacasino .co.uk.

The division also operates Coral Telebet, our telephone betting business and is the UK's first operator of digital interactive televised bingo by pushing the red button on Gala TV (Sky channel 861).

About Sue Ryder Care
Sue Ryder Care is a leading healthcare charity providing specialist palliative, neurological and community based services. Sue Ryder provides four million hours a year of expert and compassionate care and support for people living with serious illnesses and conditions, as well as their families and loved ones. Sue Ryder enables people living with illnesses such as cancer, motor neurone disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Huntington Disease, to get the best from their lives. Sue Ryder believes that everyone who needs our expert care should be able to receive it and live their lives with dignity, independence and free from pain. www.suerydercare.org

Gala TV goes showbiz crazy

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:16:54 GMT

To ramp up the heat this summer, Gala TV is welcoming ex-Big Brother housemates to present an exclusive new Sunday evening show.

Craig Phillips, who won the first series of Big Brother back in 2000, launched 'Housemate Bingo' month on 5 July. With his cheeky smile and friendly attitude, Craig has become a household favourite presenting successful shows such as the '60 minute makeover' series on ITV.

Each week a different former housemate will present the popular and interactive live bingo show, which will be broadcast throughout July between 8-9pm on Sky and Free-sat channel 861 as well as web-streamed on online through the Galabingo website.

Gala TV is also introducing 'Showbiz Bingo', keeping viewers up to date with all the latest celeb gossip and showbiz stories. On the month-long Friday evening show, 'Hot off the press' news will be brought to viewers by the best 'professional gossipers' in the business. These include Sam Mann of 'This Morning' fame, ITV at the Movies presenter and Reveal Magazine's Giles Vickers, former 3am girl Jessica Callan and Sunday Mirror's Mr Showbiz, Dean Piper.

Sam Mann said: "I am looking forward to appearing on Gala TV - it will be nice to be a guest and have a good gossip with all the players. Everyone needs a bit of gossip in their life and I will be sharing all I know from the 'celeb' world."

Paul Tremain, director of programmes for Gala TV, ETV media group said: "Each month at Gala TV we are adding new themed shows to keep our loyal viewers engaged and interacting with us and we feel this month is the perfect time to host some of Big Brother's finest contestants and hot celeb gossip columnists."

Gala TV viewers can play a variety of online bingo and side games by simply using their remote control red button or through the webstream on galabingo.com.

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Notes to editors

About Gala TV:
Gala TV broadcasts 24 hours a day on Sky and Freesat Channel 861. AutoBingo is available throughout the day with live bingo running from 6pm to 2am. The channel is also streamed live through www.galabingo.com. Viewers can register via their remote control, on the website or by using freephone telephone number 0800 587 4880. Players then press their red button to purchase tickets for the bingo games or play on the website. Gala TV awards 200,000 winners a year and gives away approximately £20,000 each night in prize money. Gala TV is owned and operated by the Gala (Alderney) Limited a subsidiary of the Gala Coral Group Limited.

Gala Bingo online offers a two week free bingo spectacular

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:19:20 GMT

galabingo.com is going bingo bonkers over the next couple of weeks, offering over 70 games of free bingo and creating at least 200 lucky cash winners.

From Monday, 8 June between 10am and 11pm, the leading bingo website is giving its players the chance to ‘make something from nothing’ by offering free bingo sessions, which can be found daily in four of galabingo.com’s online clubs - North, Wales, Scotland and South.

The sessions, each four hours long, have a slight overlap. North club begins at 10am and finishes at 2pm with Wales beginning at 1pm. Scotland follows that, starting at 4pm, and then the final session of the day - for South club - kicks off at 7pm.

In addition to the four clubs, galabingo.com will also be offering three special link games giving players the chance to win up to £100 for free.

Clive Cottrell, galabingo.com’s head of marketing, said: "As a thank you to our customers, we're really looking forward to offering our players over 200 chances to win real cash for absolutely nothing. From our previous free bingo sessions that we’ve run on a Thursday, we know that these 70 games are likely to prove extremely popular. We wish all of our players the best of luck!"

This online bingo activity follows the hugely popular free bingo in Gala Bingo clubs across the country. Many clubs were forced to display full house signs as thousands of bingo fans were grabbing their dabbers to experience Gala’s unbeatable value-for-money entertainment. As the UK’s number one bingo operator, Gala Bingo will continue to celebrate its 80th birthday year with community activities and generous promotions, offering more prize money, more chances to win and monthly free bingo sessions. The next monthly free bingo session in Gala Bingo clubs is scheduled for 25 June.

About galabingo.com
galabingo.com is part of Gala Coral Group's Remote Gambling division. This division is responsible for the development, management and operation of the Group's E-Commerce activities in the UK and worldwide through Coral.co.uk, Eurobet.com, galabingo.com and Galacasino.co.uk.

The division also operates Coral Telebet, Gala's telephone betting business and is the UK's first operator of digital interactive televised bingo by pushing the red button on Gala TV (Sky channel 861).

For further information please contact:
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