Nurse takes £100k bingo jackpot

Log in to remember this page. Email this A Welsh nurse has hit the bingo jackpot by winning £100,000. Joan Jackson, a nurse at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, arranged the evening to say goodbye to a colleague who was leaving to have a baby.

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Fri, August 24th, 2007

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