I won just £6,000 on the Postcode Lottery while my neighbour scooped £400k – but I had double the reason to celebrate
A LUCKY Postcode Lottery winner had double the reason to celebrate their £6,000 win.
NHS nurse Christine Graham wasn't expecting to win big on her birthday.
The nurse from Fenham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne received a cheque for £6,146 on her birthday.
Christine said: "I'll be using some of this to treat my two sisters and my daughter - maybe with a trip to Copenhagen!"
It comes after her neighbour Innis Gamble won more than £400k in the Postcode Lottery.
Innis celebrated after her postcode, NE4 9XU, was announced as the winner of October's Postcode Millions prize, while 390 of her neighbours scored cash prizes.
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The retired antiques dealer won £402,919 after she was diagnosed with stage 4 skin cancer last year. She hopes to receive the all-clear very soon.
Lucky winner Innis said: "The world has opened! I'm walking on air. I'm literally floating at the moment and Dave is holding me down, so I don't float away.
"This money will change our lives forever. I really do feel like I have a guardian angel now.
She added: "I'm grateful to be alive. It started with a freckle on my arm which changed shape, so I thought, 'I've got to go to hospital and get it checked.'
How to enter the People's Postcode Lottery
- The Postcode Lottery is a subscription-based lottery in which players with their postcode.
- Your postcode is your ticket number - 40p a day ensures entry into all drawers, or £12 a month.
- Once subscribed, they are automatically entered into every draw.
- Prizes are announced every day of the month.
- If your postcode gets luck, every player in your postcode wins.
- 33 per cent of the ticket price will go to charity that is re-funnelled back into the community.
"I had surgery to cut out the cancer from my arm but in October last year tests showed it had spread to my armpit, chest and stomach."
Innis, who bears an S-shaped scar on her left arm, then started immunotherapy treatment for the cancer, which was successful.
She said: "Thankfully, it worked and I'm still here. I had my last scan last Saturday. I haven't had the results back yet, but my last two scans have been clear.
"And now this has happened. I'm just waiting for the alarm clock to go off because it doesn't sound real yet."
The mum-of-two and her husband David now plan to write bucket list and start ticking it off.
wrote a bucket list together and now plan to start ticking it off.
Dave said: "It's perfect timing when you get to our age. You build up a little bucket list, and we wrote one together. It can all happen now.
They also plan on taking a once-in-a-lifetime holiday to Thailand.
How to play the People's Postcode Lottery?
For just £12 a month, players can sign up through the official website to have a chance of winning millions of pounds
Once signed up, players are automatically entered into every draw and prizes are announced every day of each month.
Tickets play for the Daily Prize, worth £1000 and revealed every single day.
Tickets could also win a jackpot of £30,000 for Saturday and Sunday's Street Prize draws.
People's Postcode Lottery also offers a £3million Postcode Millions draw each month - where your ticket plays for a share of the cash prize fund.
Winners are notified by email, text, post, or phone call, depending on the prize they win.
Jackpot winners are visited by the lottery team in person.