And finally…Third time lucky

Peter and Mary Fry, along with their three daughters, Margaret, 64, Janet, 59, and Isobel, 57, play a family syndicate putting on five lines twice a week.

They have now scooped one of two £1 million Lotto Millionaire Raffle prizes continuing a family run of Lottery luck.

Their daughter Margaret won £20,000 last year on the Lotto Millionaire Raffle and Peter’s cousin Annette Brown, 82, was the UK’s 2,500th National Lottery millionaire after winning a £1,151,496 share of the Lotto jackpot in October 2010.

Speaking about how the family discovered their win, Margaret told the BBC: “My dad went down to Tesco on Saturday as normal and passed his tickets over to get checked. The till operator advised him that he had won a ‘wee bit of money’ and it was too much to pay out in the store – thinking it was around £500, he had no idea we were about to become millionaires!”

She added, “We called Camelot , and after confirming all the details they asked if we knew how much it was worth.

“When we were told £1m we were in such shock – my mum kept saying ‘a million?’ in such disbelief. It was the most amazing feeling!”

“My mum shared the news with my two sisters and they were in as much shock as us. As a family we’re always played the game but never really believed we would win a substantial amount, this shows that it could be anyone – it’s truly life changing.”