Yorkshire teenager scoops lottery million (Video)
Stacey Bywater, who is 18 and single, has promised to keep working as a nursery nurse despite being 1,117,779 richer after Saturday's draw. She lives in a rented council house at Holmfirth, near Huddersfield, with her mother Linda, lorry driver father Gary and sister Gemma, 14.
She now wants to buy a house in the local area – famed as the location of TV comedy Last of the Summer Wine – for the whole family and has no plans to leave home. Her only stipulation is that her bedroom must have an en-suite bathroom.
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Hide AdMiss Bywater said she would also be buying a house for her sister Kirsty, 21, who has just lost her job in a department store. The jackpot winner admitted to being "a saver" rather than a spender, adding: "I'm only 18 – it's got to last me a while.
At a Press conference in Huddersfield, she admitted she was a bit frightened by the size of the win and what to do with the money. "It has been a bit scary. I am a bit scared of what is going to happen."
"Other than that I don't think it's hit me yet. I don't think it has sunk in I'm a millionaire."
On the night of the win, she said the whole family was in tears. "My dad was shaking. When I was telling my family, I was crying and they were crying.
"It will change my life a lot. We've not had much money, like any other family we have got by."
Miss Bywater hit the jackpot after buying 5 worth of Lucky Dip tickets at a shop in Huddersfield.