DARWEN businessman Peter Cunliffe sleeps soundly in the knowledge that he helps children and babies nod off safely and happily.

It also helps when you have £186,878 in the bank, courtesy of a winning line on the National Lottery.

Peter and his wife Kathleen scooped the cash on June 30 and were the first in a line of four major winners from East Lancashire in a four-month period. But apart from a holiday to Malta, they haven't touched their winnings.

"We've been too busy at work," Peter said. The couple have run the Babywise mattress manufacturing company in Almond Street, Darwen, for 10 years and won't be selling up to live on their winnings, which they scooped by matching five numbers and the bonus ball.

Peter said: "It makes life more comfortable. We have a nice standard of living anyway, so there's nothing else we want that the lottery money can bring, except for the absolute luxuries.

"It was lovely and exciting when it happened but we didn't think about selling the business."

He admitted the family -- son Nicholas, 30, daughter Heather, 17, and six-year-old twins Alexander and Aaron -- "normally go daft" at Christmas and enjoy themselves.

But the business is a strong focus in his life. and he was delighted when a Cook Report gave his company's mattresses a clean bill of health, when some were shown to have contained component chemicals such as arsenic.

"That was a huge boost," he said.

Peter does have one plan up his sleeve for a proportion of the winnings . . . but he's keeping it under wraps until next year.