After having played bingo for more than thirty years, a mother from Wishaw in the UK has won ₤16 000 in the National Bingo Game. This sixty two year old was playing at the Mecca Bingo Club in Kirk Road, where she has been a member for ten years and plays at least four times a week.
The lucky lady completed her full house in the lowest call in the country, together with another winner in Dalkeith, just forty numbers and took the National Bingo prize of ₤14 007, together with the Regional prize of ₤2 250 and a house prize of ₤175. Although the National bingo prize had to be share with the winner in Dalkeith, this did not phase the winner in Wishaw. She said that she had never won this kind of money before in her life and was just a excited as she would have been had she won the full share of the prize of ₤28 014.
She said that she doesn’t normally play in any other bingo club as she has many friends at the Mecca and feels right at home there. She is married with two children and she says that her family is delighted for her. As yet she has no idea what she will be using the money for and is going to have to give it some careful thought before she decides.