Gala Bingo has another big winner. This time it is a seventy-two year old woman from Scunthorpe. The grandmother has played at the bingo hall weekly since 1996, and this week, on Sunday, December 2, she won ₤17,500 by winning the UK bingo jackpot.
It was a nice Christmas gift for the woman and her husband, who was also playing bingo at the Gala Bingo hall. Since they have four children and four grandchildren, they are sure to have a good Christmas even though she hasn’t decided what to do with the money yet.
This is not the first big winner for Gala Bingo, The bingo club also had big winners in February and May who won the ₤100,000 prizes. Rank, like other U.K. bingo operators is feeling the effects of the smoking ban, the limit on high payout fruit machines and the double taxation of profits. Last week the company rejected an offer from Harrah’s to swap some of its London Clubs casino for 28% of Rank stock. Right after that, it was announced that Genting, the Malaysian gambling company, had bought over nine percent of Rank stock. Rank is attractive to foreign gambling concerns because they hold almost one third of the hard to get British gambling licenses.
