We have three exciting
stories for you this week:
The first is a piece
on the humbling tale of the EuroMillions winner who does not want to give up
his job, despite winning the iconic £148M EuroMillions jackpot, back in August.
The second story is of the news that a pensioner’s dream finally came true with
a lottery win. My final piece focuses on the city of Sheffield and how it’s
benefiting from National Lottery funding.
After successfully
matching 5 balls and 2 lucky stars to win the second-largest lottery windfall
in British history, Adrian Bayford and his wife Gillian, spent their first
vacation in a caravan in Scotland with Gillian’s parents. The couple, on
holiday, reportedly were modest spenders only splashing out on Easyjet flights
to Scotland and a night in with takeaway pizzas.
Upon winning this kind
of money, most people would expect a Lotto winner to at least leave their job.
Oh no, not Adrian! Having spent his whole life building a small music shop
business in Suffolk, he wasn’t going to let it go easily. So come Monday
morning he was back on the shop floor, making tea for his business partner and
re-tuning those violins.
What are your thoughts
on going back to work after winning the lottery?
Thomas Foden, an eighty-year-old
National Lottery winner from Tipton, recently scooped a £3.9 million jackpot
with the help of his daughter, Irene Harper.
This draw, on Saturday
29th September 2012, made history, as it was the UK’s first
quadruple Lotto rollover draw ever to occur.
Mr. Foden vows he
always knew he was going to win the lottery: “I always said we’d have a big win
and it’s a surprise now it’s actually come true,” he told ITV news. His
daughter, on the other hand, was completely shocked and couldn’t believe her
luck.
Interestingly, it was
only recently that they shifted their store of choice for purchasing their National
Lottery tickets from local convenience store Fags and Mags to the, far luckier in their case, Costcutter supermarket.
Have you ever thought
about changing the way you buy your lottery tickets?
The city of Sheffield
is to benefit from a £1.3 million grant from the National Lottery. The
immediate beneficiary will be Sheffield Cathedral, situated within the city centre.
In order to restore it
to its former glory, the stunning cathedral, dating back to 1430 A.D., needs
extensive work to keep it in a good condition.
These renovation plans
are extended to Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet – an 18th century steel
works – which has just also received funding to repair the site for visitors.
Sheffield is indeed
set to have a National Lottery make-over!
However, that’s now it
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