lottery winner who scooped nearly three million pounds 25 years ago is still working night shifts as a shelf stacker for Marks & Spencer, saying she loves her job and never thought of giving it up.
Elaine Thompson, 64, won £2.7m in December 1995. She says she decided to carry on working so that she could be a role model for her two children, who were aged 5 and 10 at the time.
She told Chronicle Live : "It's important that children see you working hard, and that we don't get anything out of life unless you work hard for it.” Elaine suffers from asthma, so she’s in the high risk group for Covid-19.
Even that hasn’t stopped her going into work every night, she’s just changed her hours slightly. "The company was fantastic’” she says.
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