bromora.com A group of office workers were celebrating today after winning a share of the UK’s biggest-ever lottery prize. The seven-strong syndicate, all based in Merseyside, scooped £45570835.50 on Friday 6th November EuroMillions draw, which had a whopping total jackpot of £90 million.
The winners, who all work through Manpower for Hewlett Packard, carrying out internal IT work at BT, only formed their syndicate – called The Magnificent Seven – four months ago.
The syndicate includes John Walsh (57), James Bennett (28), Sean Connor (32), Alex Parry (19), Emma Cartwright (23), Ceri Scullion (35) and Donna Rhodes (39) who have each banked £6.5million. Syndicate leader John Walsh said “I couldn’t sleep on Sunday morning so ended up checking the numbers on Teletext at 3am. I couldn’t believe it when all our numbers came up.
I had to wake up my wife and son and daughter so they could double check I wasn’t dreaming. I had left the ticket in my drawer at work, so I went in on Sunday morning to make sure it was still there and then called the rest of the syndicate to tell them the good news. I didn’t quite get the response I expected because with the economy in the state it is in, everyone has been worried about jobs, so they all thought I was calling to tell them they had been made redundant.
Thankfully I got to tell them some good news instead!” The news was perfect timing for John as his wife Margaret was made redundant from her job with Woolworths in January this year. He …
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