Winners' gallery

A woman from Felixstowe is celebrating after scooping £1 million on a Scratchcard which she bought on the off-chance and which was picked out by mistake!

Having originally set out to the shops to buy a Lucky Dip® for the EuroMillions draw, Audrey White never expected that later that day she would be holding a £1 million winning Scratchcard up to the light to try and work out if it was real.

Audrey, 58, decided to try her luck and buy a Scratchcard at the same time as buying her EuroMillions ticket. Her uncanny tale of luck began when she scratched that card to reveal a £5 win. Having realised she needed to go back into town that day, Audrey decided to pocket the card and take it with her to Tesco so she could claim her winnings and use some of the cash to buy another card.

Audrey said: "I know most of the people who work in Tesco, and when the lady who was serving me went to give me my new card she said 'Oh Audrey, I'm sorry I've ripped off the wrong one.' She apologised and went to get the right card but I just laughed and said 'Oh give me that one it's fine'. I put the card in my bag and forgot all about it until later that evening.

"When I scratched off the bit which shows you have much you have won and saw £1 million I thought I must have made a mistake. I kept looking at it and walking around holding it my hand and looking at it again to see if it still said the same. I was even holding it up the light to see if it looked real. I think I went into meltdown. When you see something like that you just can't believe that it can be right!"

Audrey, who has three children, said she had to phone her son and to ask him to find out if it was really true. "I think he thought I was taking the mick at first," said Audrey. "But he agreed to ring Camelot for me to check. He then rang back to tell me it was a £1 million winning card and that I needed to ring Camelot myself as I was the person who had bought the card. I think by that stage he was then in as much shock as me!

"It's still such a shock," said Audrey. "I know the first thing I will do is to pay off my mortgage and have some work done on my house. I will also do something to help my children but it's still too early to think beyond that yet.

"This Christmas I'll probably buy some Scratchcards as gifts for friends and family. Hopefully the luck I've had will rub off on them."

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