Two West Midlands bingo players win National Game

A Bloxwich warehouseman has won more than £65,000, and a woman from Coseley, £12,000 – both on the National Bingo Game.

Good fortune struck first for 59-year-old Paul Moseley on Friday, 15 February at the Gala Club in St James Bridge, Park Lane,  Wednesbury.

He won the National Game prize of £62,080, plus the Regional prize of £3,082 and the house prize of £100, after completing a full house in 37 numbers, the lowest call in any of the 470 clubs playing nationwide.

After working on the railway  for 25 years, Paul was made redundant and then became a warehouse operative.

He and his wife Patricia have a 19-year-old son and also two foster children whom they were already planning to take to Disneyworld in Florida. “We have now got plenty of spending money,” said Paul. “And the rest will be for my retirement fund.”

He started playing bingo 12 years ago and he and his wife play once a week. His previous biggest win was a £10,500 Regional prize on the National Game about four years ago.

More than 30 years of playing bingo paid off for a 56-year-old Coseley woman, after she won almost £12,000 at the Mecca Club in Springvale Way, Bilston.

The winner, who does not want to be named, says she couldn’t believe it when it was announced how much she had won but now she was ‘over the moon.’

It was on Thursday, 21 February that she won the National Bingo Afternoon Delight Game prize of £10,900, plus the Regional prize of £1,000 and the house prize of £24, in 44 numbers.

“My husband was amazed when I told him and said, ‘How did you do that,’” said the woman, “He’s being all nice to me now!”

She plays regularly at the Mecca with her brother-in-law, and intends to use the money to buy a laptop and to treat her three children and two grandchildren.