MEMBERS of a Bradford bingo club that is under threat have spoken of their confusion over its future.

Earlier this week the Telegraph & Argus reported that the future of the Mecca bingo hall in Little Horton Lane was in doubt after bosses confirmed the club was currently under review.

But now members of the club say they have been told locally that it is definitely closing and even given a date for it closing down - November 27.

However, a spokesman for Mecca Bingo reiterated that a decision had not yet been made.

She confirmed again: "We are constantly reviewing our club estate, as a result we have entered a consultation period at our Bradford club.

“No decision has yet been made. We expect to make a decision in the next few weeks.”

One member, Pat Parkinson, who has been going to the bingo hall for the past 25 years, said the closure was the talk of the club.

"Everybody has been talking about it," she said. "I go once or twice a week and at the weekend I was talking to other members and they have been told November 27 too for it to close.

"The staff have been telling people they are being made redundant too.

"It's confusing if the head office are saying that a decision has not been made."

Mrs Parkinson, 58, of Queensbury, said it would be a sad loss if the club were to close and that she would probably end up travelling to the Mecca Bingo hall in Halifax - but other members would not be able to do so.

It is understood that Mecca leases the part of the building which houses both the bingo hall and the city's ice rink.

In turn the ice rink, known as Bradford Ice Arena, is then sublet to its current operator.

The Wardley Centre, the building which houses the bingo hall, ice rink, offices and student accommodation on the upper floors, was up for sale at auction earlier this year with an asking price of £3.5 million but auctioneer Acuitus confirmed it did not sell.

The lot provides details of a 99-year lease to Wardley Centre Bingo Limited from January 1966, which runs until 2065. The firm is a subsidiary of the Rank Group, which Mecca is a part of.

It also states that Bradford Ice Arena is sublet from Wardley Centre Bingo.

Alongside the bingo hall, it was Mecca Leisure that opened the ice rink in January 1966, under the Silver Blades name.

When the Rank Group took over Mecca in the late 1980s it announced the closure of the rink in the spring of 1991.

But businesswoman Krystyna Rogers stepped in, negotiated a lease, and set up a new firm in order to reopen the rink.

The rink, which is operated by a trust, celebrated its 50th anniversary at the beginning of this year.

A spokesman for the ice rink has confirmed that the review of the bingo hall does not affect their business.