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The Gala Coral Group is delighted to announce the appointment of Gary Hughes as its new Chief Financial Officer.  Gary will report to CEO Dominic Harrison and join the Group Board.

The Gala Coral Group has today announced that Dominic Harrison, currently the Group’s Chief Operating Officer, will take over from Neil Goulden as Chief Executive of the Gala Coral Group, on the 1st October 2008.

The North West struck it lucky on Monday night when the £753,502.74 jackpot for Gala Bingo’s High 5 game was won and shared among 302 members of Ashton’s bingo community.

Gala Bingo has announced its withdrawal from the National Game, which will take  effect from 31 August 2008.  The move will see Gala Bingo focus on its hugely popular Gala High 5 game in order to offer customers more value through better games and prizes.

Embracing the technological evolution of quality video streaming and truly encapsulating the excitement generated from playing within a land based casino, online gaming giants Galacasinos.co.uk and sister company Eurobet.com have expanded their games portfolio further with the launch of Live Casino.

A 27 year old bank worker from Leicester has beaten professional poker players to win the Nottingham leg of the Gala Casinos British Poker Tour (GCBPT) and landed the title of Nottingham GCBPT champion.   Just as at last year’s Nottingham tournament, amateur poker player and IT analyst from Walsall, Steve Holden, beat the professionals to take the title, this year amateur player Rupinder Bedi, known to his friends as George, defeated professional poker player James Keys, 22, from Bury St Edmonds in Suffolk and scooped the £27,000 prize to show that anyone can play and win.

Gala Coral, Europe’s pre-eminent integrated betting and gaming group, has today announced record results for the year ended 29th September 2007 and published its Annual Report. Gala Coral is the first major private equity backed businesses in the UK to be compliant with the recently issued Walker Committee recommendations, providing transparent and timely information about the Group’s performance.

Margaret Ann Venables, a Gala Bingo member in Fenton, last night became a local hero as a result of the brand new Gala High 5 game. Margaret Ann, who has four children, shared her massive 874,208 jackpot with all of the clubs 369 members playing the game that night, making Gala Fenton the luckiest bingo club in the country.