One in three bingo halls are facing closure because of the smoking ban.

About 600,000 customers have stayed away - a 20 per cent drop in attendance figures - since the July 1 ban in England. Industry experts believe around 200 of the country’s 634 bingo clubs will have to shut - on top of 60 closures in the last year.

They warned the threatened closures would hit hundreds of communities. Bingo Association’s Paul Talboys said: “The fabric of whole neighbourhoods will change.”

Source: Sunday Mirror.  Link

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