While playing bingo with her mother and grandmother at the BJ's Bingo Club in Reading, a twenty-eight year old woman, who hails from the town of Whitley, burst into floods of tears on finding out that she had won £38,000 on the bingo.
She won the National Bingo jackpot of £36,130 as well as the Regional prize of £2,082 and to top it all the house prize of £106 after completing her full house in just 39 calls. She said that they are all so excited about the win and she will be sharing her prize money with her mother and Gran, her husband refused to believe that she had won so much and only believed her after she showed him the letter from the bingo club confirming her winnings. The young woman, who has only been playing bingo for two years, usually plays about twice a month at BJ's will be using her share of the money to buy some new furniture and a computer, as well as take her husband on a skiing holiday. While her Father, Mum and Gran are going to be using their share of the money to travel to Australia to visit her fathers brother who he hasn't seen for twenty years.