Bingo Crowds Witness Weigh-In

A 20-year-old is using the incentive of a public weigh-in to lose two stone and raise money for charity at the same time.

A bingo operator in the south-west of England is holding weekly weigh-ins for one of its workers as she tries to lose two stone and raise money for children's charity Whizz Kidz.

Keri Prowse, who works at Exeter's Mecca Bingo club, is paraded in front of numbers game players each week, as the bingo caller announces how much weight she has lost during the previous seven days.

By losing the weight, 20-year-old Ms Prowse hopes to raise hundreds of pounds for the good cause, reports the Express and Echo.

"It's really nerve-racking when everyone is staring and I just want to die, especially the first time I did it," said Ms Prowse, who is an assistant team leader at the Exeter bingo hall's food and drink department.

However, having the announcement about her weight made in front of a crowd of bingo enthusiasts is apparently an "incentive" to keep on working off the pounds.

In other bingo news this week, Scottish first minister Alex Salmond visited a numbers game venue in Glasgow as part of the Scottish National Party by-election campaign trail for candidate John Mason.