Picture - Alan McIvor
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| "It could be you", and it certainly
was on Saturday night for Thurso's Council Gardeners, for they struck it
lucky with the National Lottery, winning £140,032. The four council
gardeners and one retired gardener got the shock of there lives when their
numbers came up. Kenneth Maclpine was watching the the Draw and when he realized their numbers were up, he phoned Head Gardener John Ross, to tell him the news. Mr Ross said " I thought Kenneth was having me on at first, I checked the numbers on Teletext and then phoned Kelvin Angus who had the winning ticket". "Kelvin checked the numbers over and over again". John and his wife travelled in from his home to contact Campbell Dobbie, who is a retired gardener. Mr Dobbie couldn't take in the news and had to ask Mrs Ross if her husband was larking around. Kelvin and John left at 5.00am on Tuesday to pick up their check in Glasgow, both Kelvin and John said that "they couldn't have been treated better by the Lottery Officials" and "after receiving the check they had to sit down for a while and just stare at it", "it's only just starting to sink in for all of us, but it's so hard to believe". The winning line belonged to Nicky Alderson 6, 9, 18, 20, 21, 48 with the Bonus Number 6, just goes to show things certainly did come up smelling of roses for them. Photo from left to right |
Picture - Alan McIvor