{"id":83484,"date":"2023-10-04T11:28:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happylifestyleinc.com\/?p=83484"},"modified":"2023-10-04T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:28:18","slug":"war-veteran-98-scoops-685000-on-peoples-postcode-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happylifestyleinc.com\/lifestyle\/war-veteran-98-scoops-685000-on-peoples-postcode-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"War veteran, 98, scoops \u00a3685,000 on People&apos;s Postcode Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>War veteran, 98, scoops \u00a3685,000 on People&#8217;s Postcode Lottery making him the oldest ever winner<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bernard Botting, 98, from Essex, is the oldest People&#8217;s Postcode Lottery winner<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Why being a Dave could pave the way to the rich list &#8211; as men with the name rake in \u00a328million in 16 years from the Postcode Lottery<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A war veteran is looking forward to treating his family after becoming the oldest ever winner of the People&#8217;s Postcode Lottery.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Botting, from Burnham on Sea, Essex, has won a massive \u00a3685,000 sum at the\u00a0 age of 98 &#8211; making him the oldest ever winner of the big prize.<\/p>\n<p><span>The grandfather, who joined the<span>\u00a0Royal Marines aged 17 in the middle of <\/span>WW2, was awarded three cheques for \u00a3228,571 after purchasing three tickets &#8211; a grand total of\u00a0 \u00a3685,713.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He celebrated his win with his elated family &#8211; and the three generations\u00a0 posed proudly with Bernard as he was presented with his winnings by Jeff Brazier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<span>I never thought I&#8217;d win, I just hoped,&#8217; the pensionre said.\u00a0&#8216;The family are all going to get something.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/08\/76148197-12592009-image-a-5_1696404950898.jpg\" height=\"355\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Bernard Botting, from Burnham on Sea, Essex, won a massive \u00a3685,000 sum in the People&#8217;s Postcode Lottery at the old age of 98 &#8211; which saw him become the oldest winner of the big prize<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/08\/76148201-12592009-image-a-7_1696404960140.jpg\" height=\"418\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>War hero Bernard celebrated his win with his elated family &#8211; and the three generations stood around him tightly for a photograph, while the widower was presented with his win<\/p>\n<p>Bernard first started playing the People&#8217;s Postcode Lottery with his late wife Doris, who died at the age of 93 in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He vowed to her that if he ever won, he&#8217;d share the grand total with his lucky family, but told BBC News: &#8216;<span>My daughter will get the most because she has been fantastic. She took over from my wife when she died and looked after me every day&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bernard isn&#8217;<\/span><span>t the only lucky winner &#8211; four of his neighbours living in his exact postcode also triumphed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And the rest of the \u00a33.2 million prize pot was shared with 1,053 people in the wider postcode area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dinner lady Shirley Baynham was also beaming with joy as her cheque was revealed &#8211; and attributed her win to her late husband Les, who tragically died of cancer in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley, 71, told Somerset Live\u00a0that she&#8217;s carried on doing the Postcode Lottery since the death of her husband\u00a0four years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I wanted to keep it going, so I changed it over to my name. It seems as if he&#8217;s looking down on me and looking after his sons and grandchildren,&#8217; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/10\/76151717-12592009-image-a-18_1696411558305.jpg\" height=\"373\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dinner lady Shirley Baynham was also beaming with joy as her cheque was revealed &#8211; and attributed her win to her late husband Les, who tragically died of cancer in 2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/10\/76151719-12592009-image-a-17_1696411548416.jpg\" height=\"371\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Shirley in shock as she posed with son Mark, a warehouse supervisor who said: &#8216;This is a bit of good news for a change&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The generous winner still serves grub at her local primary school &#8211; and plans to treat her colleagues, as well as her family with the newfound income.<\/p>\n<p>Her son Mark, a warehouse supervisor, said: &#8216;This is a bit of good news for a change&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbour Peter Wrigglesworth also bagged a win, and the retired lorry driver, 81, and father-of-two and said he&#8217;d treat wife Joyce to some of the fortune.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Wrigglesworths can now visit their grandson Gavin and his wife Myra &#8211; who have a one-year-old child in Ohio &#8211; as well as Peter&#8217;s brother, 90-year-old Donald who lives in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12592009\/War-veteran-wins-Peoples-Postcode-Lottery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War veteran, 98, scoops \u00a3685,000 on People&#8217;s Postcode Lottery making him the oldest ever winner Bernard Botting, 98, from Essex,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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