A bingo fan won a £20,000 jackpot prize and promptly offered to split his winnings with a woman he had only met moments earlier.
Bob Gage is seeking a woman known only as Marge because they brokered a deal to share their winnings at the Mecca bingo hall in Southend.
Incredibly, he won the £20,000 jackpot but with humbling generosity he is keeping his word to go halves and now wants Marge to get in touch because he has lost her phone number.
Bob, 36, a former bingo caller at the Mecca hall, said: "It might be old fashioned by my word is my word - I'm definitely going to give her the £10,000. We made a deal.
"Some people say I'm being stupid but it's the principle. I couldn't go back on my word."
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