A BOWLS fan took to the green to toast his luck after scooping a £1 million Lotto win.
Retiree James Roy, 70, and wife Mar, 68, matched one of the Lotto Millionaire Raffle numbers on Saturday 10 October, but he didn’t realise he was one of the 25 millionaire winners until he checked his ticket on the Sunday morning.
He said: “I turned on the TV to check my numbers and I don’t know how many times I read them over to make sure I was right. I ran down the stairs to tell Mary then the first thing I did was phone my eldest daughter Agnes and ask her to check the numbers for me as well.
“I was so shocked I didn’t know what to do. We went back to the Co-op in Shotts where I bought the ticket and the assistant scanned it on the machine. Obviously they couldn’t pay out £1 million – they handed me back my ticket and a slip with the phone number on it.
“Once the ticket had been verified we took it to my sister and brother-in-law’s house and they kept it in their safe for us.”
The win is life-changing for the couple, from Shotts, North Lanarkshire, who have three grown-up daughters.
Mr Roy added: “We’ve been living in our house for 30 years and now we will finally be able to buy it. Mary struggles to get about so we will put in a stair lift and a walk in shower which will make things so much easier for her.
“I’m 70 years old so I won’t be buying a fancy sports car but I will buy myself a new set of bowls. It’s an amazing feeling to know we can walk into a shop and just buy what we want. We couldn’t do that before.”
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