Man finds £76m lottery ticket after family nags him to check his ticket
A builder from Lincolnshire almost lost out on his jackpot after hoarding his lottery tickets and not checking them.
A man has won a £76m lottery jackpot after giving in to his nagging family, who spent six weeks urging him to check.
The builder's partner, Trisha Fairhurst, and her niece, Louise, pressed him to check through them after he spent weeks working through a spate of particularly cold and wet winter days.
"It was something of a standing joke that I had all these tickets while there was a local prize outstanding, so for weeks they were on at me to check."
Reflecting on finding the winning ticket, he said: "It almost feels like some magical Christmas story, the man who nearly lost £76M!
For all our family, I’m very pleased that Trisha and Louise nagged me to check those tickets!"
Self-employed Mr Clark won a £76,369,806.80 EuroMillions jackpot. It is the 12th biggest win ever in the UK.
Recalling the evening he found the ticket, Mr Clark said: "It was about 8pm and we were watching telly when Louise reminded me again about the tickets.
"I finally gave in, got the bundle out of the van and started to work my way through them, methodically from the oldest to the most recent, starting with Lotto, before moving onto my EuroMillions tickets.
"You might say I was slightly winding up Louise but I certainly didn't expect the wind up to end with me saying 'I've done it, I've won £76M' - I won't say what she said in response!"
Mr Clark called up his partner, who he has been with for four years, to tell her they'd won.
Ms Fairhurst said: "I'd just got back from work and was settling in for a quiet evening when Andrew called and said, 'You know that £76M, well I've just won it.'
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