Mum plans holiday after £23,000 bingo win

Twenty five years of playing bingo finally paid off for a Chester woman when she won more than £23,000.

The 43-year-old winner, who does not want to be named, was at the Mecca Club in Brook Dale Place, Chester on Friday evening, 14 March when good fortune struck.

She won the National Bingo Game prize of £20,700 plus the Regional prize of £3,031 and the house prize of £169. The National prize that evening was £62,100 but she had to share with two other players in Sunderland and Hull, who also completed a full house in 44 numbers, the lowest call in any of the 470 clubs playing nationwide.

The woman, who has a partner and two children, has been a member of the Mecca Club since she was 18 and plays there two or three times a week. This was her first big win.

“I couldn’t believe it when I found out how much I had won,’ she said. ‘I thought I might have been in with a chance for the regional prize but never thought I’d scoop the National.”

She said that everyone in the club was congratulating her and that it was a nice atmosphere.Asked what she will do with the money, she said the first thing would be a holiday