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A happy group of lottery winners have been explaining how they will be spending their £2.2 million lottery cash prize. The syndicate of employees at the Scunthorpe Corus Steelworks paid just fifty pence each which won each of them a whopping £275,000 cash prize.
Last week the lucky winners celebrated with Champagne as they talked to the press about their win and received their life changing cheque from the National Lottery organisers.
The founder member of the group was lapping up the limelight and exclaimed he simply happy to be alive! The sixty four year old security officer, Melvin Johnson, went on to explain:
"I suffered a massive heart attack in 2002, so I am especially glad to be here today. I joined the syndicate back in November 1994 when the National Lottery first started. I think we won £70 one week so the jackpot after 15 years of trying takes a lot of believing."
Mr Johnson is a father of two children and has worked many years within the steel industry however he rebuffed any plans to quit work just yet. He went on to say that he and his wife, Mrs Doreen Johnson had not made plans yet on how to spend their windfall but they were sure that their two children and their two grandchildren were likely to get a treat if they were well behaved!
Kevin De-Miele, aged thirty two, who works for Corus as an emergency service contractor said he had decided on splashing out on a new sports car.
Father-of-two Mr Johnson, who has worked in the steel industry for 35 years, said he had no immediate plans to retire.
He added:
"My wife Doreen and I have yet to make up our minds what to do with the £275,000, but there could be something in store for our two children and our grandchildren Alex, four, and Chloe, two, if they behave themselves!"
And Corus emergency services contractor Kevin De-Miele, 32, said following their win in the July 11 draw, he had fixed his sights on buying a new sports car – but he was now having second thoughts about what to do with the cash.
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