A GREAT-grandmother from Leigh who won nearly £2.4 million on the National Lottery just days after retiring plans to splash out on a Nissan Micra car.
Eileen Williams, 60, watched her regular six numbers come up on Saturday's televised draw at home.
The mother-of-two, grandmother of five and great-grandmother of three had finished her final shift as a part-time care worker at a nursing home just days earlier.
She was expecting to spend her retirement living on around £150 per week with husband Brian, a 62-year-old retired factory worker, and her 80-year-old mother, in the family's terrace house.
She now plans to splash out on a bungalow, a holiday in Spain and a modest car.
She told a press conference: "I'm just coming down to earth. It's been a hectic few days.
"We'll definitely be getting a new house. The place we're in now has stairs and that's not good for mum, so we want a bungalow. We'll probably stay in Leigh.
"We love going to Spain so we will be booking a holiday there, but I've no plans to buy a holiday house out there at the moment.
"And I want a car but just a small one that I can handle. My daughter has just got a five-door Micra and that's quite nice, so maybe one of those."
She added that there would be "treats" in store for her children, 42-year-old Mark and 39-year-old Dawn, her grandchildren, Stephen, 22, Lisa, 21, Rachel, 14, Stephanie, 13, Anthony, 10, and great-grandchildren Dylan, two, Devon, one, and seven-month-old Lauren.
She said: "I've had no specific requests but they will be getting some treats.
"My grandson Anthony has just turned 10 and we gave him money so he can get what he wants. We slipped a bit extra in his card, though, so he got £30."
Mrs Williams' husband Brian added: "We can do anything we choose now, every week of the year.
"The world is our oyster, but all I really want is to see my family and my grandchildren all right."
Mrs Williams won £2,386,386 - a share of that night's £4.8 million jackpot - with the numbers 5, 6, 10, 15, 27, 49.
She pledged to continue playing her regular three lines on the Wednesday and Saturday draws, adding: "I don't mind how much more I might win. Anything else is a bonus."
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