Lotto winner office manager carried £21million ticket in her handbag for a WEEK before realising she and her husband were millionaires

A LUCKY office manager carried her £21million Lottery ticket in her handbag for a week before realising she had won.

Donna and husband David Stickley are now celebrating winning the life-changing sum of money after scooping the entire Lotto Rollover jackpot on May 12.

Housewife Donna, 48, always buys a Lottery ticket on her way to the pub with 58-year-old David on a Friday night.

But she carried the winning slip around for a week in her home of Slough, Berks, without realising she was £21million richer.

It was only when she was told by a shop worker last Saturday that she had to speak to Camelot as the store couldn't pay out prizes over £500 that she worked it out.

David, an aircraft re-fueller at Babcock International, said: "Last Saturday, my other half called me at work and all I could hear was lots of funny breathing down the phone, like something was wrong - she was all in a tizz.

"She said she'd been told to contact Camelot by the shop because we had won some money. She said 'I've checked on the internet and I think we may have won £2m but it just doesn't look right'.

"I told her to go and double check again as things like this don't happen to people like us. She sent me a text with the amount on it from the internet but she had read the amount wrong - it wasn't £2m, it was £21m."

Donna, who works at an engineering firm, said the couple are now deciding what to do next but wants some of the cash to help David's mother and her dad, who aren't in the best of health.

But they are planning to splurge on a beach holiday to relax and are considering buying a new car.

David said Donna wanted some new pots and pans when they got married which she has not yet bought, so he joked he may put an extra ";£10 towards them too".

But the couple, who married in March after 20 years together, have no plans to leave their home just yet.

David joked: "We are having the house redecorated in June so that will go ahead first. Do you know how hard it is to find a good decorator that can paint a straight line.

"We've just found one so that has to go ahead."

The couple bought their winning ticket from Casco Supermarket in Slough and the winning Lotto numbers from the draw on May were 1, 15, 21, 30, 35 and 44.

They are the biggest Lotto winners of the year - beating the Banfield family from Gloucestershire who scooped £18,139,352.