Lottery winner screamed when he won £2m from scratchcard – but he almost didn’t buy one

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lottery winner screamed when he realised he’d won £2 million, revealing that he almost didn’t buy a scratch card to begin with.Ian Black, 61, instantly quit his job as a factory worker in Carlisle, Cumbria, when he scooped the jackpot on his way back from a night shift.But things could’ve been very different, as he almost didn’t stop at his regular corner shop, due to roadworks.

But he ended up going in for his paper and tried his luck on a Monopoly Deluxe scratch card. And when an excited Ian rushed home to tell his wife Sandra, 55, to “come downstairs and check something”, she feared something had happened to their dog.

Ian said: “I don’t think I have even seen that many zeros. I kept questioning, is this really £2 million? "I immediately phoned work and said to them I wouldn’t be in that day, adding, actually I don’t think I will be in this week, or actually ever again. “My boss, understandably, sounded really shocked and just said why, what an earth has happened? "That feeling when I could just say 'I have won the National Lottery' is a moment I will never forget. “Never did I believe I would ever get to say this.

You always dream about it – but it just doesn’t happen to people like Sandra and I – well now we are proof it does.” To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up for one of our newsletters here.Top of the couple's shopping list is an operation for their dog Meg to have the bones of her leg fused together.