The 59-year-old Sheffield woman is treating her mum instead, with a cruise planned as one way in which to spend her winnings of £45,000, which she scooped on the national game.

She tells National Bingo : “I was very shocked when they told me how much I had won and it still hasn’t really sunk in yet.”

With the cruise yet to come, she could be hoping to avoid that sinking feeling for a little longer.

Her win came in 42 calls at the Gala Bingo club in Halifax Road – and is not the first to be claimed in a Sheffield venue.

The city’s Gala Bingo and Mecca Bingo halls have seen a number of UK bingo jackpot winners over the past few years.

From July 2004 to October 2006, this resulted in more than £986,000 going to players in the city’s bingo halls.

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