A ROAD layer from York plans to take his family to Disneyland after scooping more than £101,000 playing bingo.

Alan Eade, 44, won the cash at the Mecca Club, in Fishergate, York, where he was playing with his partner, Linda Smith, and his friend, Derek Gent.

But Mr Eade, of Cornlands Road, insisted he's not going to give up the day job at Leeds-based Murphy Ltd, although he will be no longer working weekends.

"I've been playing five years and had little touches now and again, but nothing as big as this. I still can't believe it to be honest.

"I'm going to take my partner and the grandkids, Matthew, Daniel and Euan, away to Disneyland in America this Christmas."

Mr Eade said he intends to keep the rest of the money as a nest egg.

"I'm not going to be giving up work - I took two days off, but that was it."

He is one of a string of York bingo winners. In February the Evening Press reported how two pensioners scooped big wins - after sitting in the same "lucky seat".

A 71-year-old widow from Whixley won almost £18,000 on the National Bingo Game at the Clifton Club.

A 77-year-old Knaresborough grandmother scooped more than £101,000 in the same contest the following evening.

At the time the club's duty manager, Mick Lacy, said: "It's definitely a bit spooky."

"I expect there will be a rush to sit in that lucky seat now. All good things come in threes, so we will probably have another big winner again very soon!" The Whixley woman, who played at Clifton three times a week, always sitting in the same seat, said she had played bingo as long as she could remember -"probably since bingo started".

The Knaresborough winner, who also visited the club three times a week, said afterwards: "By gum, what a night that was."

In June last year York cleaner Jean Pilmoor, 62, said she planned to take her husband on a cruise - after scooping more than £202,000 playing bingo at the Mecca Club.

Updated: 09:41 Saturday, October 22, 2005