The winner of a brand new car on the William Hill bingo site has still not turned up two weeks after the vehicle was to be presented. The online bingo operator gave away a brand new Fiat Panda worth £6,000 every day in October.

The competition ended 4 weeks ago and managers for the company have been going to lengths in order to find the winner of the unclaimed vehicle. The site gave away a total of 31 vehicles for each day in October.

William Hill staff have gone into the streets of Durham City with megaphones calling out Raymond’s name in the hope that either he will come forwards or people that know him will contact him.

"We had the vehicle ready on the low loader from Stockport for the trip to Durham a fortnight ago," said William Hill representative Tony Kenny. "But then we failed to locate the winner, a chap called Raymond, who has the somewhat unusual internet nickname of Rayamok."

"We're on the ground literally searching Durham for Ray - who is clearly more elusive than the Scarlet Pimpernel," said Kenny, "and we are that desperate to find him that we're putting wanted posters out in our shops."

Keith Inkster the district manager of William Hill sports and gambling group in Durham City said that he has never seen a big winner fail to claim their prize.

"We've been searching Durham and district to no avail," he said. "So now the search will spread further. We were supposed to be presenting the prize a fortnight ago if not before, but the winner has gone AWOL. Fortunately, the car never came up from Stockport as we literally had nobody to give it to."

Inkster added that 'Raymond' would most likely turn up eventually as it had become the "the talk of Durham's bookies in the last week or so."