Smokers will soon have to step out of restaurants, bars, bingos and any other building of public access. An ordinance that will ban smoking is going to be discussed on Monday at 5 p.m.

Smoking will be banned in amphitheatres, ballparks, hotel lobbies and bingo halls. The ban will also extend outside 10 feet from building entrances.

A woman was playing bingo at Bingo Lomas de Mirador in Buenos Aires and won 35,000,000 Argentinean pesos (about $11,500,000).

The only problem is that Codere S.A. says that the bingo machine had a display problem, because the maximum prize that the machine can pay is 35,000 Argentinean pesos.

For the first time since the ban to smoke in public places was approved, the Justice gave a Legal protection that will allow to smoke in the Bingo Caballito, even though the owners of other four similar rooms in the city announced that they will also ask to be exempted from the restrictions.

The measure was ordered by judge Juan Vicente Cataldo, from the Contentious Administrative Court 1, and orders the government to refrain “from doing inspections in the Bingo Caballito” until is informed if the norm was regulated.

A 43-year-old woman from Stafford hit a £101,000 jackpot at her local Gala Club. The winner, who requested not to be named, is the mother of five children and told the press she has been playing bingo for years.

The lucky lady got a full house in 37 calls to win the National Bingo prize of £100,000 plus £1,004 from the regional game and £80 from the club. “It was so unbelievable, you never think it will happen to you,” she said. “I telephoned my husband to come and fetch me because I couldn’t drive myself home.”

A Bolton Bingo player and her mother-in-law won a £50,000 jackpot at the Mecca Club in Ashburner Street, Bolton. More than 13 years ago, the two women had promised to share any bingo winnings equally.

“We're both very pleased. When I realized I'd won I cried with shock, while my mother-in-law cheered!”, the 31-year-old winner said. She also explained that they immediately called their family to tell them the good news.

A woman from Ellesmere Port, who asked not to be named, hit a £100,000 bingo jackpot at the Gala Bingo Club in Bromborough. The mother-of-four won the National Bingo Game plus the regional prize and the house prize.

The lucky lady completed a full house in 41 numbers, faster that in any of the 500 clubs playing nationwide. The winner told bingo hall authorities that she works in catering and her husband is an engineer.

The Indian National Gaming Commission has proposed new rules to regulate video bingo machines and make them slower, require more player participation and a bingo display in order to make it clear to punters that they are playing bingo and not a slot machine.

These new rules concern Indian tribes since many of them use video bingo machines as a substitute for slots because they do not have a slots license. “This is serious,” Marjorie Mejia, chairwoman of Northern California's Lytton Band of Pomo Indians said.

Tiger Gaming Inc., a Philippine-based company, recently announced the launching of WinGo, a cell phone-based, bingo-like game. It will be launched in November, first in Philippine and later in the rest of the world.

WinGo is played like bingo: players have to choose numbers that occupy a grid of squares. Then, by using their cell phones, players select a certain set of numbers for the grids. If the numbers selected match the system-generated numbers, players win.

Since the smoking ban came into force in Scotland, bingo parlors have been suffering the consequences and more than five bingo clubs have been forced to close due to the dramatic fall in revenues. Most of the remaining ones are struggling to survive in the hope that a solution might be found.

Sir Peter Fry, Chairman of the Bingo Association, believes it is unfair for bingo operators to pay the same VAT as bookmakers and lottery ticket vendors. For that reason, Sir Fry wants a rebate to come from said tax.

“The problem is not of solvency but workers inscription to the Social Security, and the obligation that the company has with the Labor Ministry and Insapsel, that can provoke labor dangers and the most prejudiced is bingo itself”, Meléndez, the director of Social Security, said.

He also commented that the only allegation that the people in charge of bingos have presented is that they have a high workers rotation. However, he said that “it is their obligation to follow the regular channels, because “then we face cases, such as we have detected in the operatives, of people that have the age to retire, but they don’t have the number of fees, because companies have a high rotation rate and they don’t register workers and when they reach the required age, they find that they can’t get their pension”.