This winner has to share the prize with another player from Hull, who also called bingo in forty five numbers, winning the National Bingo prize of ₤30 000, the Regional prize of ₤1 811 and a house prize in the amount of ₤300. The lucky man said that he though the number of calls he made bingo in was quite high and did not think that he would win, but he did. Apparently his father got quite a shock by the big win.

He is thinking about using his share of the winnings to take his son with him on a holiday abroad.

Again we have evidence that men too are playing bingo. I mean this gent plays with his father and a friend, although the news snippet does not tell us if the friend is male of female, two out of three is pretty significant when all is told.

The bingo club used to be the Moderne Cinema which opened its doors for the first time in 1936, when it opened the cinema could accommodate 1 500 people and as well as showing films it featured local talent acts.  But this was no match for television once it had be introduced to the UK and in 1963 the Moderne was changed into a bingo club.

 A spokesman for Gala Bingo has confirmed that the club was being considered for closure, lets hope this is one that can be saved from being turned into a modern, high rise block of flats. It seems to be the way things are going with all the other bingo closures and lets face it, how many more blocks of flats do we need?