Same numbers each week

As the UK lottery has been running for nearly 13 years, many of us play the same numbers each week and know them off by heart. If we were sat watching the Lotto draw and we saw ‘our’ numbers drop out of the machine, one by one, until all six were lined up, we’d know we were lottery jackpot winners.

And that’s exactly what happened to Joanne Gilbert, from Abertillery in Gwent. She was on holiday in her caravan in Weston-Super-Mare, with her family including grandson Rhys who had just gone to bed. Turning on the TV the Lotto draw for Saturday 28 April was being made, and as Joanne buys a ticket with the same numbers on each week (11,17,24,28,41,47) she knew that these were her lucky numbers. But still not believing that she had the winning ticket, Joanne went next door to a friend’s caravan, and they all sat looking at the ticket in disbelief.

Now, Joanne knows it is true and that she is £1,146,742 better off than in her job as a laundry assistant at Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital, where she has worked for 23 years. First on the shopping list is a trip to Disneyland in America for all the family.

- 9/05/07