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‘Bingo-for-biscuits’ Brits fined in Portugal
June 26, 2013
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….