A WOMAN whose father died the day after she won a new car is planning to sell the vehicle to pay for a final tribute to him.

Tina Walmsley, 40, who doesn't drive, scooped the silver Rover ZS after buying a £1 raffle ticket for St Catherine's Hospice's annual charity draw.

But Tina's surprise win was wrought with sadness after her father Terry, 75, who battled with lung cancer for four years, died from a blood clot last month, just a day after receiving a phone call confirming his daughter's prize.

Now, to honour her dad's final wish, Tina is selling the car and using some of the cash to travel to Portland Bill, in Dorset with her daughter Abigail and mum Violet to scatter his ashes in the place where he met his wife, 56 years ago.

"It's what he would have wanted," said Tina, of Jeffrey Avenue, Longridge.

"The place meant a lot to him because it's where he met my mum and there were a lot of good memories for him."

Single mum Tina draws comfort from recalling the look on the former Navy seaman's face as he told her the good news.

"He was really happy that I'd won the car," she said. "It was the happiest I'd seen him for a long time. We've never won anything before."

Tina, whose nine-year-old daughter persuaded her mum to buy the ticket, also plans to use some of the cash to take driving lessons, re-decorate her house and take Abigail on a surprise holiday.

Tina who has had the hair loss condition, alopecia, since she was ten, gave up her job in a nursing home last year to care for her parents after her mother had a leg amputated due to thrombosis.

Money from the sale of raffle tickets raised £21,000 for the hospice.