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NUMBER’S UP! Bingo club set to close
Southwark News, Thursday March 16 2023
Four men are charged by murder detectives investigating february shooting of Bermondsey man kai By Kevin Quinn
kevin@southwarknews.co.uk
isabel@southwarknews.co.uk A Surrey Quays-based bingo club is set to close as it says there has been a ‘loss of footfall’.
Buzz Bingo Surrey Quays, located on Teredo Street, is facing closure in April. It changed over from Gala Bingo in 2018. This comes as Buzz Bingo proposes to close nine of its 91 Clubs due to the ‘ongoing and challenging operating environment.’ The Surrey Quays Leisure Park opened in 1998 and a bingo hall has always been a big attraction there for over twenty years. The company said the closure will potentially impact 22 colleagues in the Surrey Quays club. Dominic Mansour, Chief Executive of Buzz Bingo, commented: “In common with the entire leisure and hospitality sector, Buzz Bingo has failed to see customers return to the high street in the same numbers as before the pandemic. “This, coupled with a squeeze on
family finances brought about by rising inflation and energy prices alongside a jump in our own operating costs means we have no real option other than to cease trading in nine of our locations. “There will now be a period of consultation, with the likely last trading day across all nine sites being Monday, April 10. The management believes the proposed closures provide the best possible outcome for all of Buzz Bingo’s stakeholders as it looks to secure a sustainable and successful long-term future for the business and its remaining c. 2300 employees. “These closures will, very sadly, impact a number of our colleagues and so our priority is to support all those affected and to do everything we can to minimise job losses. I personally want to thank them for their commitment and service to Buzz. Believe me, no one wants to make the call to close clubs. However, it is my belief that it’s these decisions that will allow us to restructure the business for long-term growth and to protect the livelihoods of our colleagues for the long run”.
Two men Jalees Selby-Gangera, 18, of Woodfield Close, Erith and Enriko Spahiu, 20, of Elmhurst, Belvedere, were charged last Thursday with murder and attempted murder after being arrested earlier in the week. Last weekend they charged another two men after making a series of arrests. Twenty-year-old Connor Brooks, of Horsa Road, Erith and Bradlee Reeve, 33, of Chapman Road, Erith were both charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder last Saturday, March 11. They both appeared at Bromley Magistrates’ Court the following day. A 16-year-old girl arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and a 53-year-old man arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder have been released on bail. No further action will be taken against a 17-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. Police said 24-year-old Kai (pictured) was shot by ‘balaclava-clad’ attackers
8.50pm. He is believed to have made it 15 metres to a nearby driveway on Hillside, but despite paramedics and police being on the scene within minutes he was unable to be saved.
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By Isabel Ramirez
Detectives leading a murder investigation after Bermondsey man Kai McGinley was shot in Erith have now charged four men.
following a car chase in Erith on Thursday February 9. Witnesses have said that Kai was in a white Mini Clubman when he was rammed and surrounded by a masked gang on Pembroke Road, at around
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