Pensioners barred from centre after row at the bingo

Pensioners are holding bingo nights in a garden - after being banned from holding their regular bingo sessions at a community centre following a disturbance. Police were called to Normacott Grange Community Centre, on the Bromford Estate in …

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Wed, August 9th, 2006

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