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WINNER: Carole Dakin and the Express edition that helped her pocket the jackpot. Pic by Andy Lambert
Lottery winner found
Duncan Ponter9/ 5/2007
A MUM Tarot-card reader who lives on £100-a-week benefits has scooped a £772,906 Lottery Jackpot - thanks to the the Stockport Express.
Stockport's Carole Dakin spotted her numbers in a report carried in last week's paper about an unclaimed prize. She turned her council house inside out - before a friend found the ticket in a box under Carole's bed.
It had been there since March, when Carole had been suffering from a cold and hadn't checked her ticket properly.
Carole had dreamed just days before the discovery of her ticket that she had won the jackpot. But the keen Tarot reader and sometime psychic failed to predict that Lady Luck had truly marked her cards.
"Thank God for the Stockport Express," she said. "As soon as I read about the unclaimed win and saw the numbers, I knew they were mine and I couldn't believe it. I was shaking like a leaf."
But the 39-year-old County fan will not be splashing out her winnings on a Footballers Wives mansion. Carol fancies a house just three doors up from her own two-bedroom terrace home - with a bedroom each finally for her two sons, Christian and Michael, 16 and 12.
Christian will get an old Mini to do up, Michael is hankering for a laptop and Carole's mum and dad Betty and Roy can also expect a special something.
"But my friend, Sarah, who actually found the ticket, won't take anything from me," said Carol. "She found it after my sons rang her to come round and help because I was a crying mess."
Carole has bought herself a convertible Peugeot 207 but is finding the idea of extravagance a little too much to cope with.
"I don't plan to be too flash - that's not me. I find it hard enough to spend £40 on a skirt."
She won't be off on a dream holiday either because she cannot bear to put her dog in kennels. But she hopes to buy up as many eBay items as she can.
"I love eBay. I'm never off it," she said. "But all the old junk's going - it's just new junk for me now."
The rest will be put aside for her sons' futures... and perhaps a personal show from Robbie Williams.
Carole also won £1,000 in the early 1990s with the same numbers.
Click on the video link below to see Carole talking to Channel M ...
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