A 30-year-old woman from Perth in West Australia came across a lottery ticket worth $13 million after she decided to check a bundle of old lottery tickets in a drawer, media reports said Thursday.
The woman, a university student, was unaware that she had been making headlines for almost a year as the winner of the region's largest unclaimed Lotto prize.
She decided to check several unchecked lottery tickets that she had kept in a cupboard drawer as she and her family were experiencing financial troubles. The winning ticket was a birthday present from her father, and was valid until July 22, 2009.
'I woke up this morning worried about our finances. Something made me think to check the tickets and I thought that if I win something, then I could help Mum and Dad out,' the woman, who preferred to stay anonymous, told the official state lottery Lotterywest.
She initially thought that she had won about $13,000.
'I checked the commas and decimal places and then realized,' she said.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
3 Year old Girl in coma wakes up singing Mamma Mia!
three-year-old girl fell into a coma after being struck down by meningitis, but stunned her family when she woke up five days later - singing Abba hit Mamma Mia.
Layla Towsey was so ill after getting the brain bug she had been put on a life support machine.
The little girl's family was told to give her a final kiss goodbye when she fell into coma.
However, it was far from the final curtain for Layla, who regain consciousness singing Abba tune.
"We had been preparing for bad news as the life support machine was keeping her alive. But on the Sunday I could hear her singing Mamma Mia quietly. I couldn't believe it. I knew then she would be OK," the Sun quoted Layla's mum Katy as saying.
Layla, from Gidea Park, East London, had learned the song after seeing the Mamma Mia! movie. She has now made a good recovery, with just scars on her legs from blood poisoning.
"It's one of her favourite songs - she loves it. She got as close to death as you can get. She's a miracle," Katy added.
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