Rolldown Winner Emerges
Dean Hardman, a Bury football supporter is also now £6.75m
better off after becoming one of the seven UK winners of the huge
Euromillions jackpot on 17 November 2006. There was no way he could
remain anonymous as he checked his ticket in the Crown Inn pub in
Heywood, whilst playing dominoes with friends on Friday night. His
girlfriend Stella Kelsall runs the Crown Inn, and she made sure
the ticket was securely locked away in the pub’s safe. Dean
and his mates checked the numbers off in amazement and when he had
five they were shouting at the TV for the last number to come up.
First on Dean’s to-buy list is a racehorse in memory of his
grandfather who died last year. He was keen on horseracing, and
often won, but one of the last things he’d said to Dean was
that he was sure he’d come into some money. But the first
person to benefit from Dean’s win was his Dad who had a fantastic
60th birthday party at the pub on Saturday night, so that everyone
could celebrate. At the moment Dean is a season ticket holder at
Bury, but he thinks he might upgrade to a box, so his friends can
watch as well. And Stella’s thoughts are with Christmas, when
she’s determined that she’ll still cook the celebratory
lunch, but the pressies under the tree might hold something even
more special this year.
Dean is a Factory Foreman for a door manufacturer, and Stella manages
the Pub, and they both have declared that they will stay on working.
But maybe a holiday to Australia to watch England play in the Ashes
can be squeezed in, just to toast the win. If you are wondering
if Dean used a system to correctly guess the winning numbers, then
no, he did not; he just bought four Lucky Dips, in common with millions
of people across Europe last week. There were seven lucky £6.75
winners in the UK last Friday, five have yet to go public, but the
other ticket was held by a syndicate of 33 pie workers based at
Palethorpes Pie Factory in Shropshire. With prizes of over £200,000
each, the workers will have a great Christmas even though redundancies
are threatened at the factory. Elsewhere in Europe there are four
happy winners in France, three each in Spain and Portugal, Two in
Eire and one in Belgium.
As you probably know the draw on 17 November was special as if the
jackpot was not won (by correctly guessing five numbers and two
lucky stars), the value of the Jackpot (£123m) would roll-down
to the next level where you had to guess five numbers and only one
lucky star. And this is what happened and as a result there were
20 winners. Now you should never look a gift horse in the mouth,
but you might like to feel sorry for a syndicate of 36 players that
matched the 5 numbers plus one dream number on the 10/11/07 draw
and won £479,782, or another syndicate, of 13 players, who’d
done the same the week before and won £413,010. If they’d
done it in this draw, on 17/11/06 they’d have won £6.75M!
- 21/11/06
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