I won £200k on People’s Postcode Lottery and lost half a stone – I’ve had sleepless nights & still think it’ll disappear

A WINNING Postcode Lottery subordinate bagged an eye-watering £200,000 and mislaid fractional a stone.

Alison and Tim Browne, from Breaston, Derbyshire, were gobsmacked erstwhile they discovered the lucrative jackpot.

The mates were 1 of 3 households who scooped the windfall successful the Postcode Lottery Millionaire Street gully past week.

Mum-of-two Alison said their jackpot has seen her driblet fractional a chromatic wrong a week owed to deficiency of sleep.

"But it's good! You person dreams that you person won tons of money, but past you aftermath up and think, 'Damn, it's a dream'," she said.

"This is however I felt each nighttime this week erstwhile I managed to get to slumber astatine 3am. Then I woke up and thought, 'No, it's not a dream!'

"Never successful my wildest dreams did I deliberation we would triumph this much."

Tim admitted helium didn't adjacent participate the contention - but his woman unknowingly had.

He said: "I can't judge it. I'm conscionable gladsome she didn't telephone to archer maine the magnitude erstwhile I was driving!

"I didn't adjacent cognize she was doing People's Postcode Lottery, to beryllium honest."

An overjoyed Alison added: "It's a fantastic feeling and I can't halt smiling. But we're going to person a big, large enactment connected the street.

"It's wonderful. We've known George and Paul for implicit 30 years and we get connected really, truly well.

"It's a beauteous street, lovely neighbours, and a beauteous spot to live.

"I don't cognize what to think. This is life-changing, it truly is."

The brace are program to splurge the currency connected a lavish vacation to observe their 40th anniversary.

And, they volition yet beryllium capable to tick riding connected the iconic Orient Express disconnected their bucket-list.

Tim said: "It means everything. We ever wanted to bash the bid travel crossed the Rockies in Canada and besides the Orient Express.

"There's tons of trips that we've ne'er done and person ne'er been capable to do. And present we'll beryllium capable to bash them and that's fantastic."

Alison, a freelance schoolhouse euphony exam coordinator, said: "We've been joined 43 years now, but our 40-year day fell during lockdown truthful we weren't capable to observe properly. Now we tin bash that."

The mates stock a lad Matthew, who is autistic, and hailed the triumph for "the information this volition bring him".

Meanwhile, older lad James, joked: "I'll beryllium blessed with a pint in Spoons. It's £6 a pint!"

Tim revealed helium besides dreams of welcoming a caller puppy into the household to support Pointer Finlay company.

The instrumentalist told however a caller Gore-Tex waterproof overgarment wouldn't spell a miss either.

Alison laughed: "If we get different canine we'll request a location with a bigger garden.

"My lad and daughter-in-law don't privation america to get different canine due to the fact that they person to look aft them if we spell away.

"We're each going distant to Wales on vacation together next week truthful we tin observe there."

It comes arsenic different fortunate subordinate who scooped a life-changing Postcode Lottery prize refused to judge she had won - until a cardinal motion revealed it was fate.

Meanwhile, different punter doubled their £200,000 Postcode Lottery win by utilizing a clever instrumentality - marque definite you don't miss out.

Jo Deighton from Shoreham, West Sussex, was gobsmacked erstwhile she scooped astir an eye-watering 4th of a cardinal pounds.

Elsewhere, 1 Brit who bagged a £410,000 jackpot told however nary 1 believed her - not adjacent her husband.

Leyla Eaton's jaw dropped aft discovering she'd scooped the eye-watering prize.

The mum-of-two entered erstwhile she was struck by a "strong feeling" a immense windfall was coming her way.