A PRETTY face will be missing from the Jackson family Christmas dinner table this year.
While Tony and Linda Jackson sit down for lunch, their daughter Rachel, 17, will be serving festive diners at The Last Drop, a hotel, banqueting and entertainment complex at Bromley Cross, near Bolton.
Despite her parents winning £143,676 on the National Lottery in August, Rachel will also be hard at work on Boxing Day and New Year's Eve.
But on New Year's Day she will be jetting off with boyfriend Alex to Tenerife for a holiday paid for by mum and dad.
They said they would stump up for the holiday providing Rachel came up with the spending money -- so the Blackburn College student, who is taking a BTec national diploma in applied science and sport studies, took the job a few weeks ago to boost her holiday funds.
Mum Linda, 48, said: "She loves doing it, although I didn't think she would. It's her first real job."
The lottery win, for matching five numbers and the bonus ball, was a timely one for the family, who live in Holland Street, Accrington.
Linda worked at Leoni Wiring Systems in Accrington but took voluntary redundancy in September.
"The ironic thing is that we would have been struggling if we hadn't won the money because the firm is closing down in May," she said.
The couple enjoyed a holiday to Tenerife and treated family members from their winnings -- including buying a T-registration Peugeot 106 for Rachel, who is planning to sit her driving test early next year.
Linda said: "We have invested half the money because the houses where we live are eventually going to come down, by which time hopefully the money will have grown more than houses prices -- and Rachel can't get her hands on it!"
Husband Tony, 51, is still working at Callender Aeroparts at Altham, where he has been employed for 16 years, but manages to fit in a few rounds of golf in his leisure time.
The couple are now planning a quiet Christmas . . . but will splash out on a party for Rachel's 18th birthday in February.
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