Easter Jackpot Winner
Two months ago 43 year old Jennifer Southall and her three children were living in a homeless hostel having been forced to sell their home. Now she’s won the entire Easter £8,372,751 jackpot and plans to buy a huge house, and maybe another one in Spain.
Her win was a Lucky Dip ticket with the numbers 23,24,30,31,33,37 and it was the Easter Saturday 7 April draw, but it was only when Jennifer checked her ticket six days later at Tesco that the assistant told her she’d won a lot of money. The first thing the new multi-millionaire did was hand in her notice at her job at Cineworld, Newport where she’d been earning £5.85 and hour, and then the family will move out of their rented council house on the Ringland Estate.
So what do her three teenage children Lauren (19), Kyle (17) and Jamie (14) think? Well apparently they haven’t stopped smiling, and now they know that whereas money used to be an issue, they no longer have to worry. And their mother won’t be complaining about the noise from their drum playing, as she’ll be buying a house big enough to be well away from the noise.
Having bought the boys an Xbox, Jenny is now looking to do so many things that she has never done. Like take driving lessons, buy a new red car, get a passport, and go on a plane. But before all that she went on a shopping trip in Newport with her mum and sister, spending more money in a single day than she ever could have imagined possible. The next shopping trip will probably be in New York.
- 18/4/07
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