NEIGHBOURS who won £180,000 on the People’s Postcode Lottery say they can’t wait to make their first purchase – but people think it’s boring.
Jennifer Tyrrell and Debbie Stansfield are celebrating after they each picked up a cheque for £90,909 in Harlow, Essex.
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Stansted Airport welcome host Debbie, 55, said: “We’re going to go halves on the fence – finally!”
She has her heart set on a campervan to travel round Britain with technical design engineer hubby Richard, 57 – and treat their family.
She said: “We’ve been wanting one for ages. Either a VW or a Tolbot.”
The mum-of-two added: “I got another four grandkids this year. We went from four to eight.”
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Jennifer, 44, was getting her hair cut in her best friend’s kitchen when she got a call to say she’d won.
And the first thing she’ll splash her £90,909 windfall on? A Ninja air fryer – to cook chicken and chips.
The mum-of-three said: “There’s two drawers, we can do both.”
Now ambulance emergency care assistant Jennifer can’t wait to celebrate Christmas with her family.
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Wearing an advent calendar jumper, she said: “I’m such a Mrs Christmas. My sister just flew home from Dubai yesterday.
“She lives out there, so we’ll get to see her and the kiddies.”
Jennifer is currently awaiting an operation after breaking her ankle in February – but her win has put a smile on her face again as she plans her spending with water softener engineer hubby Michael, 56.
She said: “I kept saying to my husband, ‘let’s just sit at the thousand and anything better than that is going to be amazing.’
“I’ve got to phone him and he’s going to be like, ‘what?!'”
It comes after an OAP secured £333,000 on the Postcode Lottery but was told she would only take home a third because of an age-old pact.
And in Birmingham, a great gran-of-five bagged £111,111 as part of a £1m win amongst her and eight neighbours.
Joan Buckingham revealed what her lucky charm was ever since she bought the first one a decade ago.
And one group of neighbours on a Manchester estate won £3.2million between them this summer.
