Ada Borrowdale, 79, of Gayle Avenue, Shap, won a huge bingo jackpot worth £27,000 at the Opera Bingo Club in Penrith.
Ada plans to spend the money on her family – she has 8 children, 13 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
“It hasn’t really sunk in yet,” Borrowdale said. “I’ve never really had that kind of money in my life.”
This win is comes only a week after Ada’s brother’s death, who died of liver cancer at the age of 81. Ada nursed him for 15 months before he passed away, so times have been kind of hard for her.
“People said I deserved this with what I’d been through and how I’d helped him,” she said. “I think he would have been more thrilled than I am.”
This wasn’t her first time at the game of bingo by far, in fact she’s been playing at the club in Penrith for about 10 years and finally took home the National Bingo jackpot.
“It’s very exciting when you have a big win in the club,” said Ethel Nicholl, Opera manager. “Everyone is really happy for her.”
This is a really great story that just makes me want to go play some bingo and see if I can’t win a huge jackpot. I think I will!
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