All right for some: Yorkshire couple scoop £2m budget day lottery jackpot

A LUCKY East Yorkshire couple were celebrating dodging the Budget blues today after scooping more than £2 million on the Lottery.

As the rest of the country was coming to terms with swingeing cuts, Angela and Colin Brown were getting used to becoming millionaires.

The couple from Driffield, scooped more than 2 million on Saturday's Lotto Rollover Jackpot and admitted their good fortune could not have come at a better time.

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"It means we won't have to worry about paying the bills at the end of the month," said Mr Brown, a self-employed painter and decorator.

Mrs Brown, 55, added: "We definitely feel especially lucky to have won at this time."

However, the lucky winners said they were just a "normal couple" from a "little village" and would not allow the money to effect them.

Mr Brown, 57, said he would continue working, but conceded he will probably scale back the number of hours he works.

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Housewife Mrs Brown said the money would allow them to look after their family, and spoil their 15-week-old grandson.

"We will make sure they are taken care of. That's what you do, look after your family."

The couple have two daughters, Rachel, 32, mother to their grandson, and Sara-Jane, 30.

A fish pond was top of the shopping list for Mr Brown, while Mrs Brown said she would buy toys for her grandson.

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Mrs Brown was feeding her grandson while her husband watched the end of the National Lottery show when the lucky numbers came up.

She added: "Our grandson was staying with us that evening so I was busy feeding him and getting him ready for bed whilst Colin watched the end of the show.

"He told me that I had one number, then two and that I might have won 10, and then another number came up and we realised I had all six numbers.

"I thought I had to have the bonus ball as well to win the jackpot but Colin told me I didn't and we just couldn't believe it."

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