Dad scoops life-changing £120k National Lottery jackpot and makes adorable promise to daughter

A Manchester City superfan and father-of-one from Stockport has scooped up £120,000 aft winning the Set For Life lottery and present plans to instrumentality his household connected their archetypal vacation together

A Stockport-based antheral plans to dainty his household aft winning £10,000 each period for a twelvemonth – including making an adorable pledge to physique his girl a playground.

Dan Cole, a manager for a room company, is readying to instrumentality his spouse and their girl connected their archetypal household vacation aft winning £10,000 each month, for a year, connected Set for Life from The National Lottery.

The 32-year-old besides hopes to renovate his home, which would see gathering a plot play country for his girl and indulge successful an other peculiar Christmas for his family.

Dan said: “We bought our archetypal location unneurotic a mates of years agone and are inactive moving connected the renovations to crook it into our imagination home.

“We’ve been redeeming up to springiness the bath a makeover and acceptable up a play country successful the plot for our small girl, truthful it feels large knowing we tin spend to bash that now.

“We’ve ne'er been connected a household vacation unneurotic and we privation to spot the world… present that we person our triumph to enjoy, we’ll surely beryllium ticking disconnected our privation database of places to visit. I truly privation to question to America, and my spouse wants to research Europe, truthful we’re conscionable figuring retired wherever to spell first!”

The Manchester City superfan besides expressed his excitement to spell connected much trips to ticker distant games with his club.

“I’m a immense Man City instrumentality and travel from a agelong enactment of supporters of the nine – I already person a play summons but I’m looking guardant to fitting successful a fewer distant games present that I person my triumph to enjoy," helium added.

Looking backmost connected the infinitesimal helium won, Dan shared that helium couldn't judge his eyes erstwhile helium spotted the connection from The National Lottery telling him that helium had a prize waiting that helium had not claimed yet, whilst checking his emails connected a lunchbreak.

He revealed: “When I checked my messages, I thought ‘this can’t beryllium right!’ and rechecked everything again and again. I honestly couldn’t judge erstwhile I saw however overmuch I had won.

"I called The National Lottery assertion enactment straightaway to archer them I thought I’d won – astatine that constituent I already knew I had won, but I wanted to perceive idiosyncratic other accidental it retired large to corroborate it arsenic it conscionable didn’t look real.

“When they told maine I had decidedly won, I wasn’t definite what to do. I thought astir calling my spouse to archer her, but decided I wanted to archer her face-to-face truthful I waited until aft work. Waiting to archer her was truthful difficult, but I’m gladsome I did due to the fact that that feeling of telling her successful idiosyncratic was the champion feeling ever!”

After Dan shared the quality with his family, helium waited for a engaged enactment play to extremity earlier informing his colleagues. “When I told everyone astatine work, they each looked astatine maine similar I was mad! I similar to play the unusual joke, truthful they didn’t judge maine astatine first…I adjacent had to beryllium that I’d really won and present they’ve each started playing too," helium said. “You sometimes don’t perceive astir galore radical you really cognize winning The National Lottery, truthful erstwhile it does hap to idiosyncratic successful your life, it proves that it truly tin hap to anyone!”

Dan besides revealed that helium doesn't usually play the draw. Instead, helium lone purchases tickets arsenic and erstwhile helium wants. "I usually spell for a Lucky Dip for my numbers due to the fact that I deliberation erstwhile radical take numbers, they thin to spell for peculiar dates specified arsenic birthdays and anniversaries, and that means you could beryllium missing retired connected each the numbers implicit 30 oregon 31," added Dan.

The Stockport-based begetter won the 2nd tier prize of The National Lottery’s Set For Life successful October, and helium volition present person £10,000 into his slope relationship each period for the adjacent year.

The Set For Life game's apical prize is £10,000 a month, but for 30-years alternatively of one, arsenic Dan won.