A 60-year-old woman from Moray Park, Edinburgh, hit the £100,000 national bingo jackpot at the Gala Club in Meadowbank Retail Park. The lucky lady is a retired printer who has played bingo three times a week for 30 years.

“I couldn’t stop crying when they told me. I am just over the moon”, she said. The winner, who does not want to be named, explained that she plans to buy the council house where she lives with her husband and take her 27-year-old daughter to a holiday in Florida.

According to a spokesman for the club, the big win did not satisfy the lady’s passion for bingo. “She was in the next night. She seemed a bit stunned, she had to stop playing and go to the bar for a drink.”

The Gala Club informed that the jackpot is among the biggest payouts in its history.