Britain’s luckiest couple have scooped a £1million lottery win for the second time, but despite the cash windfall, they’ll keep working.
Courier driver Richard Davies, 49, and his mental health worker wife Faye, 43, beat odds of 24 trillion to one to land the jackpot twice.
The pair won the £1million on both the EuroMillions and the Lotto draw – seven years apart.
They first won the EuroMillions millionaire maker prize in 2018 before then matching five numbers, and the bonus ball in the Lotto draw last month.
Richard and Faye, from Talgarth, near Brecon, Wales, credited their win to the power of ‘positive thinking’.
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Faye said: ‘We knew the odds of it happening again were outrageous, but we’re proof that if you believe, anything is possible.’
And despite the wins, neither Richard nor Faye is planning on ditching work any time soon.
Faye said: ‘That first win meant I gave up work as a mental health nurse and could return to university, gaining a second degree in Counselling and Therapeutic Practice.
‘I now have my own practice and also provide counselling services with local organisations, including Brecon & District Mind charity and The DPJ Foundation. I feel blessed every day to be doing something so meaningful thanks to that first bit of luck, and I’m not going to abandon my clients with the second bit.’
Richard added: ‘After a while, I was able to give up hairdressing, I’d been doing it since I left school. I put down the scissors before agreeing to help a friend out with a couple of days’ courier work, that was two years ago, and I now do seven days and love it!”
‘Everyone keeps asking what we’ll do in the future, and we genuinely have no idea at present. We may have believed, doesn’t mean we had a plan!’
After their first win, the couple gave away cars, donated a minibus to the local rugby team and helped out friends and family.
This time, they say they’re going to take time to enjoy the moment.
Faye added: ‘We always played believing in a win, but we’ve also seen firsthand, through our volunteering at projects that have received vital National Lottery funding, the impact players make.
‘From Richard using his hairdressing skills at a shelter for the homeless in Cardiff with Haircuts4Homeless to cooking up a storm at Cegin Hedyn community kitchen in Carmarthen, funding makes a huge difference, right across Wales.’
Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at Allwyn, operator of The National Lottery, said: ‘To see the positive impact of that first win, I know that this second one will be just as meaningful.
‘Players winning more than once is unusual, but like all the best magic, not impossible. We have supported winners who celebrated double wins with us, and there are even a few lucky addresses dotted around the UK that I have visited more than twice!’
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