put the lottery on regularly but the one day they decided to buy a ticket resulted in them turning into multi-millionaires overnight.
The couple scooped a whopping £12.4m back in 2010 when Nigel, 55, was working as a hotel manager, and Sharon, 50, had just returned to work In finance at Trafford Council from maternity leave, following the birth of the couple's second son, according to the Manchester Evening News.
The pair picked up the ticket while on holiday and only realised that they had won when they returned home.Checking the numbers, Sharon looked on the TV while Nigel had headed off to Tesco to get some food shopping.
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