Sheila Stanley, a seventy year old woman from Liverpool is celebrating after her ₤19,000 win at the Mecca Club, Europa Centre in Birkenhead. The National bingo prize that night was for ₤67,880, however Sheila had to share her winnings with three other players. This in itself is unusual, we see winners sharing with another player, but rarely see them having to share with three others. All four players called house in forty five numbers.
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₤19,000 Bingo Winner Celebrates
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Rank Group (Mecca Bingo) Challenged by HMRC
Monday, July 21st, 2008The Rank group, operators of Mecca Bingo, looks as though it is going to be in one heck of a mighty court challenge with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. They were recently granted a tribunal decision to claim back more than £36 million in VAT from the department as monies that were overpaid for Interval Bingo.
Bingo Winning Mum Shares her Prize
Friday, June 20th, 2008Claire Evans a thirty eight year old mother of two from Maesteg, made her day when she called bingo in fourty four numbers and won prize money in excess of ₤30,000, after which she was in “complete and utter shock”. She plays with a friend at the Castle bingo club in Bridgend, and still cant quite believe how much money she won.