Lottery Winners Jim And Maureen Emerton Are Nottingham's Third Jackpot Winners

Nottingham Strikes Jackpot Again As Couple Claim £4m

It's third time lucky for Nottinghamshire as another set of lottery jackpot winners from the region spoke of their shock at banking more than £4m.

Jim Emerton, 56, and his wife Maureen, 55, from Carlton in Nottingham, scooped a £4,449,039 prize after matching all six numbers in Saturday's Lotto draw.

The region has had its fair share of good luck this year - on January 20 Gareth and Catherine Bull, from Mansfield, banked £40,627,241, while Cassey Carrington and Matt Topham, both 22 and from Stapleford, took home a cool £45,160,170.50 after winning on February 7.

The couple said they thought the win was an elaborate April Fool's joke when they checked their ticket on April 1.

Mr Emerton said he thought they had a "trick ticket".

He said: "When we checked the numbers and our ticket again on Sunday morning, we remembered it was April 1, so we thought it was an April Fool's joke."

Asked how they felt about living in such a lucky county, Mr Emerton said: "It is strange. We were talking about this the other week, the EuroMillions being in England all the time, and we thought that was strange.

"I've been told, I didn't realise, that Nottingham is very lucky. That's good for me."

And like the previous two winners in the county, Mr Emerton, who has just started working in the quality control department at the Toyota factory in Burnaston, near Derby, and Mrs Emerton won their millions on a Lucky Dip ticket.

Describing the recent run of luck in the county, Mrs Emerton said: "Lucky people, very lucky people. It's just pure luck; it's nice for those who win it."

Mr Emerton said they now knew how previous winners felt after having watched them for so long.

He added: "I don't know if there's anything going off in Nottinghamshire or whether they know something everybody else doesn't know, but it's certainly working.

"Everybody's going to move to Nottinghamshire now and start buying lottery tickets."

And their lucky streak may be their first but perhaps not their last as they will still continue to play the lottery.

"I'm doing it today. I've not done it yet but I will do it today.

"Why change what works. £2 Lucky Dip so who knows?

"We can afford it now you see," Mr Emerton joked.

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