From BBC
Twenty-eight British and Irish expats and holiday-makers have been fined after police in Portugal caught them playing bingo for biscuits and drinks.
Landlady Marianne Pittaway, from North Yorkshire, was fined 700 euros (£595) for hosting the game at The Yorkshire Tavern in Albufeira, on Friday night.
Ms Pittaway, 34, also received a four-month suspended prison sentence.
She said she was “still in shock” and that the country’s regulations were “wrong in a lot of aspects”.
Ms Pittaway, who has been in Portugal for eight years, said her bar would “definitely not” be staging bingo again following Friday’s raid.
The 28 appeared in court in Albufeira earlier to face charges of “exploitation of illegal gambling, illegal gambling and witnessing illegal gambling”, according to the police.
Even some of the people in the bar who were not playing bingo were fined 150 euros (£125) and given a three-month suspended sentence for “witnessing illegal gambling”.
Organisers of bingo in Portugal have to apply for a government licence.
