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Mansfield couple scoop £41m EuroMillions jackpot

Simon Ward
by Lovemoney Staff Simon Ward on 24 January 2012  |  Comments 1 comment

Gareth and Catherine Bull say they will spend some of the winnings on a box at Old Trafford, a Range Rover and a villa.

Mansfield couple scoop £41m EuroMillions jackpot

Gareth and Catherine Bull have been unveiled as the winners of a £41 million EuroMillions lottery jackpot.

The couple, from Mansfield, scooped the rollover jackpot in the 20th January draw.

The 40-year-old self-employed builder and his 35-year-old wife said they planned to spend the money on an executive box at Old Trafford so Gareth can watch his favourite team, Manchester United, a Range Rover Sport, a villa and a trip to Disney World in Florida for their two children.

They also said they would support charities, particularly breast cancer charities, as Catherine’s mother was diagnosed with the disease five years ago. She has since made a full recovery.

Here are some other recent big winners and what they spent their millions on:

Colin and Chris Weir

The couple from Largs won a record £161 million on EuroMillions last July. They have spent £850,000 on a hillside house overlooking the Firth of Clyde, gifting their old £220,000 house to their teenage neighbour in the process.

They also donated £1 million to the Scottish National Party and bought an £88,000 Mercedes.

Dave and Angela Dawes

The couple won £101 million on EuroMillions in October last year and vowed to make their family and friends millionaires. At the time of their jackpot, the couple were engaged. They went ahead and got married, but in Gretna Green with just five guests.

If you won the lottery, what would you spend the money on? Let us know in the Comments section below.

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  • PDB11
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    PDB11 said

    I don't play the lotto in any form, but if I did...

    I think I'd buy a canal barge - something a bit larger than a narrow boat - and cruise around Europe

    I'd definitely avoid splashing out on too big a house. It doesn't need to be very large before the upkeep becomes crippling - both in terms of money and of time. (Of course that can happen to the boat, too!)

    I learnt my lesson on the house from a couple called Tim and Sue. They had just started a family and needed a larger house. They also wanted to live near Tim's mother - a widow who was becoming more dependent on her offspring for help. And they found, at a very reasonable price, an enormous Georgian farmhouse in the next village. This had oodles of bedrooms, outbuildings galore, and three acres of land.

    Unfortunately, this meant that they spent all their spare time either gardening or doing housework. They hired a lad to help in the garden, and a girl to look after the toddler (soon to be accompanied by another baby), and still had no time left. Tim was an accountant, and went into town every day to work. Sue was a potter, but never got the chance to do any pottery - she spent all her time on the house.

    Anyway, after three years, they took advantage of the obscene rises in house prices that one got in those days, sold up, and bought something much smaller. (The house was bought by a family named Middleton - I have no idea if they're related to Kate Cambridge!)

    Unfortunately Tim and Sue invested all the spare money from the house, and a whole lot more, in six more houses, and went into business doing them up and selling them. Just before the property market crashed...

    They survived the property crash, but had to move to London for Tim's next job. My chief regret is that Sue never managed to start up her pottery business again. I would have liked to grow up in a potter's workshop. (Yes, they were my parents. To put it in context, the property crash was that of 1974.)

    Anyway, it taught me that it is a mistake to buy a huge house simply because you can!

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