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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-05T18:10:44.000Z",
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    "More than a quarter of Gen Z think winning the lottery is more likely than owning a home",
    "National Lottery winner reveals three things she'll fund with seven-figure windfall after 'trusting her instincts'",
    "National Lottery winner reveals unusual travel destination son wants to visit after scooping jackpot",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nA North Wales delivery driver who spent years rising before dawn to transport fruit and vegetables has scooped a £1million Lotto prize, allowing him to hang up his keys for good.\n\nPaul Wynne, 58, had been starting his shifts at 4am, delivering produce to care homes and nurseries across the region.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHe said: \"It's life-changing for me...When I discovered I had won, I immediately worked out I could take an early retirement.\n\n\"Getting up at 3.15am and starting work at 4am is hard, especially in the winter in the ice and snow and I still had eight years left until I was due to retire.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe father of eight revealed that topping his priorities is dedicating more time to his children and enjoying his love of horse racing.\n\nMr Wynne is particularly keen to take his eldest sons Danny, 37, Jake, 33, and Ricky, 32, to major racing events throughout the year.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to heading to the races and maybe putting on a few well-placed bets. I'm even thinking about buying a share of a racehorse, it would make going to the races even more special!\" he said.\n\nThe windfall also means he can finally provide financial support to his children in ways he previously could not.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"I've never been able to help out financially the way I've wanted to with my kids,\" he said.\n\n\"When my son Danny got married, I wasn't able to give him as much help as I wanted, but now I can really help them out and it makes me feel so happy.\"\n\nWynne wasted no time putting some of his winnings to practical use, purchasing a replacement vehicle after his previous car had reached the end of its life.\n\n\"I've bought a new car and my old car has already been scrapped,\" he said. \"It was absolutely on his last legs, I don't think it would have kept going much longer so I can't believe how well it's worked out for me to win this money.\"\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * More than a quarter of Gen Z think winning the lottery is more likely than owning a home\n  * National Lottery winner reveals three things she'll fund with seven-figure windfall after 'trusting her instincts'\n  * National Lottery winner reveals unusual travel destination son wants to visit after scooping jackpot\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nA trip across the Atlantic is also on the agenda, with the 58-year-old planning to visit New York later this year.\n\n\"Going to New York has always been on my bucket list,\" he said.\n\nThe winning numbers were particularly meaningful to Wynne, as they were based on dates connected to his five youngest children.\n\nThe moment of discovery came early on a Sunday morning while his children were still asleep, and Wynne initially struggled to process what had happened.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHe said: \"It took a while to work out what was going on, to compute it. I thought I had won £1700 at first which I was overjoyed about but then I realised I had five main numbers and the bonus ball too, so it was £1m!\"\n\nMr Wynne has been a Lotto player since the game first launched, using the same two lines of numbers for the past eight years.\n\nCaroline Talbot, Winners' Advisor at Allwyn, which operates The National Lottery, described meeting Wynne as \"fantastic\", adding that the prize had arrived at the perfect moment for him to enjoy retirement with his family.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter **",
  "title": "Fruit and veg delivery driver set for early retirement after ‘life-changing’ £1million Lotto win"
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