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BINGO BOSS LEAVES FORTUNE TO FAMILY

27/01/2006

Former bingo boss Thomas Paulo, who died last July at the age of 71, has left £62 million to his wife and three children in his will.

The Scottish leisure tycoon, who ran the Airdrie-based County Bingo, left his £550,000 home in Alloway, Ayrshire and his £175,000 holiday home in Spain to his spouse, in one of Scotland's biggest ever wills.

Mr Paulo's family apparently lost interest in the bingo business after his death, and sold County Bingo to giant rival Gala Group earlier this month.

The firm's ten sites in and around Glasgow are to be refurbished and rebranded as Gala bingo halls, expanding Gala's Scottish presence to 30 venues.

Mr Paulo was once an influential player among Glaswegian leisure entrepreneurs. In the 1980s he acquired the Locarno ballroom in Sauchiehall Street from Mecca Group, which was then rebranded as the nightclub Zanzibar.

He has appeared among the top 100 Scots in the Sunday Times 'rich list,' with an estimated fortune of £43 million.

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