CHRISTMAS came early for Accrington couple Walter and Marion Reed.
They won £59,500 on the Lancashire Evening Telegraph's Spot the Ball competition.
Three masked gunmen terrorised post office staff and escaped with a massive cash haul.
The men, who had Liverpool accents, made off into a busy Blackburn town centre with notes trailing from a split bag.
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