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A couple who are mad about cricket are celebrating
after they stumped up for two Lucky Dip lottery
tickets in the August 26 draw and ended up catching
a £2,436,040 share of the jackpot.
Annette and Terence Rook, who live in Reading,
were already planning to visit Australia later
this year, but their big win has meant that
they can now upgrade to first class with all
the trimmings.
Annette works as an assistant with accountancy
company Ernst & Young, so she is no stranger
to dealing with financial affairs. She discovered
their good fortune whilst her husband was working
outside in the garden, and now she has considerable
finances of her own to think about.
"We always buy two Lucky Dips," she
says, "but we never thought we would win.
I checked the numbers on Teletext and had to
go and get Terence from the garden, where he
was mixing cement to lay a new patio. Neither
of us could believe it, so we just kept checking
the numbers over and over again. It is really
only just beginning to sink in."
Apart from the holiday upgrade, the couple
still haven't thought about what they intend
to do with their fortune.
Annette explains: "We are thrilled and
emotional. It's still a shock, so we haven't
celebrated yet and it's hard to really think
what we'll spend the money on. We will treat
ourselves though. For a start, we had been planning
to visit family in Australia at the end of the
year. We'll definitely fly first class and we
can have a longer trip."
And will the couple continue to stump up a
few pounds for lottery tickets every week?
"We fully intend to keep on playing Lotto,"
Annette says. "We'll do Lucky Dips still
- we used to have regular numbers but recently
changed. It's worked for us!"
Well, it wouldn't be cricket to stop playing
now, would it?
5 September 2006
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