A mum has scooped £3.5m on the lottery and splashed out on a brand new dwelling along with her winnings.
Helen and Lee Kuchczynski have been handed the bumper cheque for £3,665,079.10 at their dwelling yesterday. Helen, who has at all times rented, made a proposal on the couple's dream dwelling on her 58th birthday after being topped a winner within the EuroMillions July 12 draw
She mentioned: “We've rented all our married life, and with retirement looming did not assume that may ever change.
"Then Girl Luck greater than smiled at us, she grinned and burst out laughing, so as a substitute of the standard Chinese language takeaway in entrance of the telly to have fun my birthday, we purchased a whopping indifferent home with all of the mod cons – it even has electrical gates!"
Lee has had a bit of current too, swapping his HGV for his dream automobile, an Audi RS4 Avant.
Helen, of Cumbria, added: "My first buy as a millionaire was two baggage of cat litter whereas Lee invested in a brand new back-scratcher, unsure if that's residing the excessive life!”
Helen, a Monetary Administrator, and HGV driver Lee’s successful journey began when Helen purchased a Fortunate Dip for the EuroMillions draw.
She performs on-line and recalled: “I logged into my account on the laptop computer however was upset to see the steadiness was the identical as traditional, 40p. I logged in with my app as a substitute to see if that confirmed something completely different, nonetheless 40p, so I then clicked on the message and the 40p was in a short time forgotten, and changed with £3,665,079.10!”
Helen took the cellphone by way of to indicate her daughter who was preparing for her second day at a brand new job, the Mirror stories.
“As I handed the cellphone to our daughter I mentioned, ‘I’ve received one thing on the Nationwide Lottery however I feel the decimal level is within the unsuitable place so it’s in all probability a rip-off'," she added.
"She checked out it, refreshed the app, refreshed it once more and at last, turned to me and calmly mentioned,
‘Mum, I actually assume it’s actual, you might want to ring the quantity.’
"The cellphone traces weren’t open at the moment within the morning so we spent the subsequent 20 minutes consuming countless cups of espresso and guffawing at each other, and pondering what was Lee going to say.”
Lee added: “As a HGV driver I go away dwelling on a Monday at 3.30am and get again Friday evening so we’ve shared a lot of life’s ups and downs through cellphone however that’s one name I'll at all times keep in mind.
"I’d simply achieved a drop in Scunthorpe and was headed to North Wales for the subsequent job when Helen advised me she had excellent news however that I needed to pull over because it is likely to be stunning.
"Listening to, ‘we’ve received £3.6million on the Nationwide Lottery’ actually was excellent news and positively was stunning!”
The couple, who've been married for twenty-four years, are going to take a while to get used to their life altering win.
Helen has no plans to surrender work, however Lee has retired as a HGV driver after being medically discharged from the military in 1995.
Helen purchased their successful EuroMillions Fortunate Dip ticket on-line at national-lottery.co.uk.
Her successful numbers have been; 14, 18, 24, 25, 50 and Fortunate Star 6. The opposite Fortunate Star within the draw was 11.
In the meantime, earlier this week, a UK ticket-holder claimed to win the EuroMillions jackpot of £195million, the most important Nationwide Lottery win of all time.
The declare will endure a sequence of checks to make sure its validity earlier than the windfall is paid.
Camelot mentioned no info can be launched on whether or not the claimant is a person or a syndicate winner, or the place the ticket was bought, except the ticket-holder decides to go public.
One ticket matched all seven numbers to win £195,707,000 – making them the most important jackpot winner of all time.
The holder will have the ability to purchase 11 Boeing 747 jets, 23 Pisces-VI Submarines, Southampton Soccer Membership or a townhouse in London ’s Mayfair, full with steam-room and plunge pool, cinema room and fully-equipped chef’s kitchen.
It additionally means they're richer than Adele, who's value round £150million.
Solely 15 UK gamers have ever received a jackpot of greater than £100 million, with the earlier record-holders Joe and Jess Thwaite from Gloucester, who received £184 million in Could this yr.
Do not miss the most recent information from round Scotland and past - Signal as much as our every day e-newsletterright here.