A lucky man from Edinburgh is celebrating a £500,000 win on The National Lottery, after initially believing it had just been a crazy dream in the middle of the night!
Raymond Young, 63, who recently retired from his job working for British Gas, had initially checked his Thunderball ticket while half asleep, half realising but not fully taking in that he had a winning ticket from the draw on 23 March 2024.
Raymond Young, 63, who recently retired from his job working for British Gas, had initially checked his Thunderball ticket while half asleep, half realising but not fully taking in that he had a winning ticket from the draw on 23 March 2024.
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00:00 I had a sort of dream and I woke up in the middle of the night.
00:02 I checked my ticket but then I went back to sleep thinking it was still in a dream.
00:06 I didn't think it was real.
00:07 Then when I woke up in the morning I went and checked the ticket again and lo and behold
00:12 it was all real.
00:13 It took a wee while for it to actually sink in that I'd actually got a winning ticket
00:16 in my hand.
00:17 It was just, I don't know, surreal.
00:19 It was like living in a different world and just realistic.
00:24 The reason I'm in Blackpool is Blackpool is like home for home because I've got special
00:27 friends here.
00:28 So if I was going to be celebrating anywhere I'd like to be celebrating with my friends
00:31 in Blackpool.
00:32 The first thing I bought was a car and this made it a bit simpler, bigger choices and
00:39 I was able to do what I wanted to do.
00:41 I bought a caravan up in St Andrews but I've got family in St Andrews as well so it's handy
00:46 that you can be next to them and have your own place rather than go and visit them.
00:50 It's definitely surreal but I don't think I've changed that much.
00:54 I'm just me, the same person I've always been.