The bingo hall in question is the Mecca Club in Breightmet Fold Lane, Breightmet. If the plans for this go ahead, virtually hundreds of patients will have access to a variety of different treatment. The mobile clinic will be set up in a trailer, from February 2009 and services are to include gynaecology, general surgery, ENT and urology. Just think you can go and have you pap smear then go straight to a game of bingo to cheer yourself up, how fantastic is that?

Apparently they will also be carrying out MRI’s CT scans and X-Rays, the bingo car park will house five trailers and a generator trailer. It will have eighteen staff members on hand and a further three trailers may even be added for endoscopy services. Patients will be referred to the “Polyclinic” by their GP’s, it will be open from 7:45 am to 8:30 pm. This great idea has been dreamed up to reduce appointment waiting times as well as limit the distance that many people have to travel to receive treatment.

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.