'I live in the 'world's luckiest town' - I took home £370m & neighbours won big too'
“So I bought a £20,000 Hyundai instead with 2,000 miles on the clock.”
He has no plans to move from the semi-detached home the couple bought in the early 1980s and splash out on a new, luxury home.Mr Owen said his win won’t change him. “I’ve never been an impulsive person and I won’t start now. I’m going to use what’s left of the money to help my family out financially whenever I can.
Across the road, fellow winner Mary Brooks, 63, scooped £185,000 and used £10,000 of it to pay off her mortgage.She also quit her job as a cashier at a local garage and took early retirement.Her husband, Geraint, 60, lost his job at a recycling plant two months after his wife’s win. "We’ve hardly touched the winnings. We’ve got three children and five grandchildren and we want them to benefit.”
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