A pensioner remarked that she was “gob-smacked” and has spoken of how she comforted her bingo-losing husband with some good news of her own, a near £300,000 TV game show win. Mrs Pamela Mullins decided to have a quiet Saturday night in, and the 67-year-old won £290,000 on ITV’s Magic Numbers.

The couple spent all night discussing what to do with the windfall. Top of the list is a first class trip to Australia to visit their Melbourne-based daughter Sarah. A new bungalow is also on the cards for the retired pair, Mrs Mullins said. She said the good news couldn’t have come at a better time having recently suffered from some health concerns. Well although she had not had much luck in recent times she certainly had a good slice of it now!