Nagging wife nags husband
all the way to winning lottery ticket
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A "nagging" wife who pushed
her husband to buy a lottery ticket helped scoop the
$4.2 million ($7.7 million New Zealand dollar) first
prize — with only minutes to spare. The man from New
Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, bought his ticket just
two minutes before ticket sales closed Saturday night.
AN EARLY Christmas present for
a Boston Spa church has secured the future of its
historic organ.
St Mary's Church has been awarded £50,000 by the
Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to complete the work on
the organ, following a long-running appeal by
members of the congregation.
EAST
Anglian great grandparents Eric and Sue Tarry today
vowed to carry on running their village car repair
garage - despite scooping the whole £7.6m rollover
jackpot from Saturday's National Lotto draw.
The couple - who live in the Fakenham area and
between them have five children, nine grandchildren
and a great grandchild - were unveiled today as the
winners of the fortune and revealed how a “twist of
forgetfulness” was in fact at the heart of their
success.
Mr Tarry, 78, who runs the service
station at Sculthorpe, near Fakenham, forgot his
usual lottery numbers and had to plump for the
“Lucky Dip.”
And the numbers he got - 10, 34,
35, 39, 43 and 47 - all came up and they were the
only winners in the main Lotto draw.
It was
when Mr Tarry woke up with cramp in his leg on
Saturday night that he realise they had become
instant multi-millionaires.
In a further
quirky twist, his wife Sue, 56, remembered their
normal numbers - and that won an extra £10!
Mr and Mrs Tarry - who have been married for nearly
30 years - were clearly over-awed at the attention
on them as they were introduced to the nation's
media today and said they were still coming to terms
with their enormous win.
Reporters,
photographers and camera crews from a wide variety
of media outlets wanted to talk to them and hear
their story and get their pictures.
They said
they had not been able to eat or sleep since
realising they had scooped the £7,649,917.
Mr
Tarry said: “I do not know how it is going to change
my life yet.”
He said he would not give up
the family business.
“It's our way of life. I
have got lots and lots of lovely customers. They are
not only customers but friends as well. It's just
something we do every day. It's not easy to give
up.”
Mrs Tarry organises the accounts and
wages.
“We employ three people and it's like
a family,” said Mrs Tarry.
They want to
finally finish their kitchen renovation in their
five-bedroom house, which they started several years
ago.
“It is incomplete and it has been for
several years. We've been going to have it done
professionally for years and will do that now.”
Mr Tarry - who has had both knee and hip
replacements and suffers from a heart condition -
also plans to replace his old Mitsubishi Shogun with
a new one.
They said their family would be
“taken care of” and may also invest in a motor home.
Their last holiday was a short break in
Aldeburgh 24 years ago.
Mrs Tarry said: “I
have never flown. We have often talked about buying
a motor home. We are not holiday people.”
Mr
Tarry said the size of their win was still sinking
in.
“We are just getting used to it. We are
trying to come to terms with it.”
The have
played the Lottery since it was launched in 1994 and
usually buy their ticket from Budgens, in Wells
Road, Fakenham.
Mr Tarry said he learned of
his win at about 10pm on Saturday after getting out
of bed with “cramp.”
“I got a cramp in my
leg. I got up and started walking around and went to
my laptop computer and logged on to the home page
and checked my saved numbers. One of my regular
numbers won £10. I got my other number and it said
'congratulations you are a winner'.”
Mr Tarry
added: “I went into see Sue and said 'Can you wake
up?' She said 'What's wrong?' I said 'I think I have
won the lottery.' We went back and checked all the
numbers were there.
“We haven't slept since -
can't eat, can't sleep.”
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