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A Tesco's checkout assistant is celebrating
after winning the £8,471,383 Lotto jackpot
on 3 February. The jackpot had rolled over from
the previous draw, and Karen Child, who is getting
married this summer to her fiancé Wayne,
will now be able to celebrate in fantastic style.
Karen, who have been playing the National Lottery
ever since it began, bought her Lotto ticket
at the same Tesco store where she works. She
explains: "After finishing the weekend
food shop, I thought I'd get my weekly Lotto,
Thunderball and Dream Number tickets for the
Saturday draw and went to the counter where
my next door neighbours' daughter works to get
my tickets."
The significance of that purchase was realised
a short time after the draw itself. "It
was later that evening when I was sat in front
of the TV that I realised that I'd won,"
Karen continues. "Wayne and I were watching
the other channel when the balls were being
drawn. When the adverts came on Wayne wanted
to check the Lotto draw to see if he'd won on
his work's bonus ball game, so I got my tickets
to check the other numbers at the same time.
"I started to go through checking the
numbers - first I thought I had won £10,
then I realised I had matched four numbers -
then it dawned on me that I had matched all
six! I really couldn't believe it and even when
I told Wayne he didn't believe it either.
"Not really sure what to do next, I called
the number on the back of the ticket to make
sure I wasn't seeing things - and they confirmed
that it was the probably the winning ticket!"
As well as planning a fairytale wedding, Karen
wants her new wealth to help her enjoy more
of her favourite football team, Manchester United.
"It's really too early to say what I am
going to do with the win," Karen said,
"but I would love to come to the Theatre
of Dreams to see United play. I would also love
a new red Mini Cooper and I think we will look
for a new house - although I don't want to move
far from where we are now. In all the win means
that we will never really have to worry about
money again!"
19 February, 2007
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