IT'S Win by name and win by nature for one lucky Cleveleys Citizen reader as she scoops the top prize in the Christmas competition.

Win Spencer, of Cumberland Avenue, was thrilled to find she had bagged the £50 shopping voucher to spend in the store of her choice and told the Citizen: "It's fantastic. I love competitions and entered the Citizen Christmas one every week as my husband and I are retired and like to keep busy.

"But I never expected to win as I never usually win anything.

"My husband Lionel laughs at me for entering them all the time and says I shouldn't waste the postage stamp, but now he's thrilled and said it's about time I won something. When the telephone call came last week it just made the perfect day as I had also discovered that day my grandson Samuel is to be on TV's This Morning with Richard and Judy with his school's nativity play. He plays Joseph."

Win plans to spend her festive good fortune on a trinket treat from Palmers Jewellers in the Teanlowe Centre, Poulton, and maybe she'll wear it when she goes sequence dancing with Lionel which is a hobby they both thoroughly enjoy.

"We've been going every Thursday afternoon for nearly six years now to Bispham and also the Pensioners Hall on Victoria Road, Cleveleys," added Win. "We like to keep active and it's great around Christmas as we've got lots on."

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