People in Rotherham found out today they were the lucky winners in the People's Postcode Lottery - splitting the competitions biggest ever prize pot of £17.5million.
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00:00I'm Karen, and I've won £24,266.
00:04Hello, I'm Rachel, and I've won £24,266.
00:12I'm Lauren Tomlinson, and I've won £418,057.
00:18And I'm Andrea Tomlinson, and I've won £418,057.
00:23Tell me, what does this mean for you?
00:27Everything. I've got a big family, grandkids, and I've never won anything.
00:34And it's just, I can't even put into words what it means to me.
00:38This is just incredible, honestly. The timing is perfect.
00:43Obviously with Christmas coming up, we've got two little boys.
00:46We're just in the middle of a big extension, renovation, building work.
00:52And it's just going to make everything a lot easier.
00:56This money means the world to me. My mum and dad's had ill health this year, as have I.
01:02And then I found out I'm having a baby.
01:04And then we've won this, so it's just life-changing.
01:08Turned everything around, flipped it on its head, and no worries anymore.
01:13Just plain sailing and lovely life from now.
01:17And yourself, mum?
01:19Same.
01:22We live together. We do everything together.
01:25Many things racing through your mind at first, but when you're seeing a figure like that, it's in your hands.
01:30That's yours. What's your first thing that you're thinking of?
01:33Do you need a new kitchen? What's the first investment idea?
01:36Holiday.
01:38I need a husband.
01:40Next year we're going to New York, so this will pay for that.
01:44I'd just like a house. Just knowing that there's something in the bank that we've got.
01:49It's just amazing.
01:51Life-changing, somehow.
01:52Life-changing. It is to me. Yes, definitely.
01:55It's a bit of a new everything, really.
01:58So, yeah, kitchen.
02:03It's just the house is currently in disarray.
02:07And the fact that things could be sorted a lot quicker and a lot easier is obviously massive.
02:12And we're getting married as well.
02:15Congratulations.
02:17Just easing the next few months as we go through it, really.
02:23Just holidays. We definitely deserve holidays.
02:26We work so hard and life is hard, but you just get by and we always got a smile on his face.
02:32And now we've got a true, true, true smile on his face.
02:35And what potential destinations on holiday would you love to go to?
02:40My forever, what I've always wanted to go is to go to Hawaii.
02:45Very nice.
02:46Drinking out of coconuts, I presume, that kind of thing.
02:48Or is that Hawaii?
02:49Yes, Aloha.
02:52Lovely.
02:53And for yourself, any dream holidays?
02:55Jamaica, me.
02:56Jamaica?
02:57Yeah, totally.
02:58I still want to go to Bob Marley's house.
03:00What do you think this means for your mum?
03:02Oh, a lot.
03:03I know she'll obviously have a nice holiday with it, so that's obviously a bonus.
03:07And it obviously helps out with all the kids because we've got a big family.
03:11So it does help out with a lot of stuff.
03:14I'm just very happy.
03:15Well, it's all the same things.
03:17It just takes pressure off everything.
03:19I'm in the process of losing my job as well, so it just takes the pressure off everything financially.
03:24We've just got a bit of kung fu, haven't we now?
03:26Yes, yeah.
03:27Yeah, it does.
03:28It just makes it easier.