{"id":68960,"date":"2023-10-22T16:32:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T16:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/?p=68960"},"modified":"2023-10-22T16:32:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T16:32:31","slug":"i-won-111k-in-peoples-postcode-lottery-im-spending-the-money-on-my-parents-even-if-theyre-not-alive-to-enjoy-it-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/lifestyle\/i-won-111k-in-peoples-postcode-lottery-im-spending-the-money-on-my-parents-even-if-theyre-not-alive-to-enjoy-it-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I won \u00a3111k in People's Postcode Lottery… I'm spending the money on my parents – even if they're not alive to enjoy it | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
A MARRIED couple who won \u00a3111,000 in the People's Postcode Lottery say they're spending the money on their parents – even though they're not alive to enjoy it.<\/p>\n
Michael and Paula Kerman will use their lottery winnings to buy a memorial bench after hitting the jackpot along with neighbours in Birmingham.<\/p>\n
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The pair intend to install the bench in their back garden, engraved with the names of both sets of parents who have died.<\/p>\n
They will also add those of friends also lost in the three years since the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020.<\/p>\n
The couple pocketed a \u00a3111,000 share of their West Midlands neighbourhood's "Millionaire Street" \u00a31million prize in the People's Postcode\u00a0Lottery.<\/p>\n
Eight other households on the street won similar amounts, after being part of the subscription syndicate getting lucky this time.<\/p>\n
Supermarket worker Paula, 57, said: "It's amazing – \u00a312 a month and it's changed our lives completely.<\/p>\n "We lost both of our parents and we've lost some good friends over the last three years.<\/p>\n "We want to engrave all their names on to the bench, so we have somewhere to sit and reflect.<\/p>\n "This win maybe has got something to do with the ones that sadly aren't with us anymore."<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n But they will be treating themselves too.<\/p>\n The couple had already booked a holiday to Spanish resort Benidorm in the coming weeks but will now splash out on an upgrade.<\/p>\n Mum-of-three Paula said: "It'll be more champagne and a bit more luxury – we don't usually do luxury."<\/p>\n Michael, 58, added: "It's changed our lives overnight.<\/p>\n "We can get a new kitchen, an extension to the back of the house and we can treat the kids."<\/p>\n They celebrated with People's Postcode Lottery presenter and radio DJ Judie McCourt.<\/p>\n Other winners from their street include a great-gran-of-five who intends to spend her windfall on her unusual obsession – terracotta garden gnomes.<\/p>\n Joan Buckingham, 74, told how she enjoys painting gnomes with her great-grandchildren – even though her daughter despairs.<\/p>\n The\u00a0People's Postcode Lottery, which began in 2005, gives \u00a31million pounds to Brits each week, based on their postcode – Birmingham's B29 5PM this time getting lucky.<\/p>\n Other recent winners include a woman from Dearham in\u00a0Cumbria who found out about her win just moments after another life-changing call.<\/p>\n A gran-of nine from Sheffield in South Yorkshire revealed how she'd treat her family with her People's Postcode Lottery winnings.<\/p>\n And a lucky couple told how they hit the jackpot despite recently moving home away from that week's winning neighbourhood in Plymouth, Devon. <\/p>\n<\/picture>WE NEED TO TALK <\/span><\/p>\n
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