Daily Mirror - 27.08.2019

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DIP DIP HOORAY

Mum, 42, wins

£10k a month

for 30 yrs with

£1.50 Lucky Dip

BY PAUL BYRNE move from their two-bed terrace. And

Vicky is looking forward to being able to

spoil her two lads, aged eight and 19.

She said: “Whereas before I would see

a jumper for one of my sons and think I

couldn’t afford it, I can now just buy it.”

“My youngest son needs a bigger

garden to boot his football about so we’ll

look for somewhere soon.”

■ Two winning punters are each set to

miss out on a £1million fortune.

They have just a day left to claim the

prizes from the March 1 UK Millionaire

Maker draw, or it will go to good causes.

The tickets were bought in Coventry

and the Preston area.

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email and thought, ‘Great it’s another

fiver’. I couldn’t work it out to see what

I had won. It said I had to log on. I woke

Adam and shoved my phone in his face

saying I’d won the

lottery. He said, ‘What,

a pound?’ And I

shouted, ‘No, look,

look, look’.

“In a million years,

you never think you’ll

win big, but this is life

changing.”

The couple, whose

joint income is less

than £30,000, will pay

off debts and save for a

deposit so they can

an accountants, said: “I Googled, ‘Best

family car’ and Skoda came up. So, I’ve

seen a little one that’ll be enough for me.”

Vicky’s win came after she bought a

Lucky Dip for the August

12 Set for Life draw, using

the last £1.50 in her

online Lottery account.

When she saw her 03,

20, 26, 27, 32 numbers

and Life Ball 05 had come

up, she woke brewery

worker Adam to tell him.

But he turned over to

go back to sleep because

he did not believe her.

She said: “I was half

asleep when I saw the

LOTTERY winner Vicky Mitchell can

take her pick from the world’s top

holiday spots after winning £10,000

a month for the next 30 years.

But the down-to-earth mum-of-two is

planning to celebrate the “life-changing”

prize with a caravan break in Skegness.

Vicky, 42, said: “You can’t beat a

caravan holiday with the kids. They love

it. We’ve already booked for next year.”

Vicky and her partner, Adam Fry, 38,

will also buy a new car as their 14-year-

old Vauxhall Agila, is “falling to bits”.

But the couple have their eyes on a

family-friendly Skoda Citigo, rather than

a flashy Ferrari or Porsche.

Vicky, a part-time admin assistant for

You can’t beat

a caravan

holiday with

the kids.

We’ve booked

for next year

VICKY MITCHELL ON WHY SHE

CAN’T WAIT FOR SKEGGY BREAK

LOVELY
BUBBLY
Vicky and
Adam. Inset,
with cheque
FULL OF BEANS Blessed

Blessed: I’m

still sexy and

run aged 82

BOOMING voiced actor
Brian Blessed claims he
runs five miles a day and is
“as sexy as ever” at 82.
Blessed said: “I love
being my age, it’s amazing
with the wisdom, happi-
ness and peace.
“I do about four or five
miles a day running. I
bench press 300 pounds.
“It’s not how old you are
it’s the way you hold it.”
The Flash Gordon star,
touring UK theatres with a
show about his life, wants
to go into space.
He said: “I’ve done 800
hours training in Moscow

• I’m a fully qualified
  astronaut. I want to be up
  there next year.”
  The twice-married dad
  of two said of his passion
  for women: “I don’t need
  the bloody blue pills. I can
  still bloody do it. I’m as
  sexy as ever.”

BY MARK JEFFERIES

HEARTBREAK Carol Jones

Woman dying

of cancer has

benefits axed

A DYING cancer patient
too ill to reply to an official
letter had benefits stopped.
Carol Jones, 65, died in a
care home and owed her
housing association over
£2,000 in rent as a result.
Her relatives feared they
would have to pay it until
the Department of Work
backdated payments.
Twin brother David
Agar said: “I feel disgusted
somebody can be that ill
and have benefits stopped.”
He wants the system
changed to prevent others
suffering the same fate.
Carol, from Stoke, died
last week after a two-year
battle with liver cancer.
A DWP spokesman said
it had not been aware of
Mrs Jones’ situation.
He said: “Now we are we
have been in contact with
her brother... so he can
deal with her affairs.”

BY RUBY DAVIES

family business in nearby Ealing,

had four grandchildren and was a

part-time coach with Wasps

Rugby Club.

A man in his 30s was arrested

on suspicion of murder.

■ A 17-year-old was stabbed in

the chest at a bank holiday market

near Cambourne, Cambs. He was

flown to hospital with non-life

threatening injuries.

death in Southall, West London,

was the 90th murder in the capital

this year. Yesterday mum-of-three

Philomena was being consoled by

her family, including her other son

Kirk, who said: “My brother was

larger than life. He always hosting

events with games for the grand-

children. The family is devastated.

We can’t understand why it

happened.” Mr Isichei ran the

Isichei was planning to go for

Sunday lunch with father-of-three

Allan, who had phoned her on

Saturday morning, and said: “See

you at 1 o’clock.”

She added: “My darling son, my

beautiful son. He was taking me

out to dinner.”

“That was the last time I spoke

to him. I just wish I had him back,

STABBED Allan Isichei but he is gone. It is not fair.” His

93-year-old mum’s despair as son is knifed to death

THE 93-year-old mum of a knife

murder victim has paid an

emotional tribute to her son.

Building firm boss Allan Isichei,

69, was knifed yards from his

home as he walked back from his

local pub on Saturday evening.

His mother, Philomena Isichei,

said: “He was my beautiful son

and now I will never see him

again. He is gone forever.” Mrs