A GAMBLING gran from Oxfordshire scooped more than £108,000 playing her favourite game - bingo.

The 71-year-old, who lives in a small village, off the A420 Oxford-Swindon road, doesn't want to be named.

But she told organisers how she was so thrilled to win the small fortune that she went back to play at the Gala Club in Swindon the following night.

The gran makes the 60-mile round trip with her 77-year-old husband twice a week. She won the National Bingo Prize on Saturday, plus a further regional prize of £8,393, and the club prize of £176.85.

She completed a full house in 43 numbers, the fewest anywhere in the country.

The gran said: "It was a bit of a shock when we found out how much we had won.

"Surprisingly, I actually managed to get some sleep that night but my husband didn't.

"We were back in the club playing the next night but we didn't win again though."

The couple, who have two children and two grandchildren, have been married for nearly 52 years.

Both retired 12 years ago - she from her job as a supervisor in a telephone exchange and he from the building company he joined when he left school.

The winner's husband was stationed in Italy during the war and is planning to spend some of the cash visiting war graves in Salerno.

Georgina Palmer, of the National Bingo Game, said: "The couple go to Swindon because they like the atmosphere in the Gala Club there. Now they will be able to afford the petrol."

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