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Published:
April 4, 2006
Burnham-On-Sea
lottery winners say 'it's business as normal'
Members
of a National Lottery syndicate from Burnham-On-Sea are planning
their futures after scooping nearly £400,000 on a jackpot
win.
The
five-strong family syndicate run Poples Domestic Appliance Repair
Services in Abingdon Street and have been spending £5 a
week on lottery tickets for more than five years without success.
But
all that changed on March 24th when their six numbers came up
and they won a share of a £3.9 million jackpot - which had
10 winners - netting
the group a tidy £390,591, or £78,118, each.
The
syndicate members include Colette Pople, 19, her sister Jemima
Holding, 21, and husband Peter Holding, 23, father Roger Pople,
45, who owns the shop, and his best friend Ian Parsons, 50.
Mr
Pople says the business he has run for 20 years won't be closing.
"It's brilliant to win, although it hasn't quite sunk in
yet. It is a bit surreal coming into so much money as I have never
won anything in my life."
 "We
are still going to carry on the business and our lives as normal
but we have a bonus in our back pockets.
"Ian
is the lottery man, he buys and checks the tickets each week but
on this occasion he left the ticket in the shop over the weekend."
"So
it was not until he checked the numbers on Monday morning that
we found out we had won and we had an exciting day at work talking
about it."
Mr
Pople is planning to spend his share on paying off a loan, investing
in the business, buying new clothes and booking a family holiday.
Jemima
was even more excited after winning two shares of the money with
her husband. She said: "I was really excited when I found
out but it still hasn't sunk in. I thought I would go on a big
spend up but I am being sensible. I
have two young children and our future to think of, so I am using
the money to buy a house on one of the town's new housing estates."
Colette
has been spending some of her money on clothes and Ian is using
some of his share to pay off his mortgage and is now cutting down
his work hours.
The
winning Lotto numbers on Saturday 25 March were 02, 06, 10, 17,
29, 30, and the bonus ball was 09. The ticket was bought from
GW Hurleys in the High Street.
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