We won £1million on People’s Postcode Lottery but we never thought we’d get a penny – our street’s in a forgotten valley

A LUCKY pistillate who saw her "forgotten valley" thoroughfare scoop £1million connected the People's Postcode Lottery said she didn't deliberation they would triumph anything.

Rebecca Banks was 1 of 11 winners connected a thoroughfare successful Nantymeol, Ogmore Vale, to container an eye-watering £83,333 each.

Rebecca broke down successful tears aft the triumph and said the windfall was hard to judge for "the forgotten valley" village.

She said: "We are the forgotten vale arsenic we don't person galore amenities for anyone.

"The buzz connected the thoroughfare and astir the full spot is conscionable unreal.

"We've got a mates of tiny shops, the pub has lone been unfastened a mates of months, there's nary supermarkets and the nearest is simply a 20-minute thrust away.

"We don't person immoderate petrol stations, thing astatine all. So, for this to hap is conscionable incredible."

Rebecca, who works for a recognition union, said: "We tin conscionable bask beingness and person fun.

"We're going to Thailand next April, truthful we mightiness marque a fewer upgrades.

"And it's my 40th day successful December, truthful present we could spell connected a nice play away."

Alan and Muriel Owen besides won a life-changing sum successful the lotto.

Muriel said: "I couldn't judge it, I thought it was a scam astatine first, and past I said to [Alan] idiosyncratic was playing a sick gag connected us."

Fortunately, the telephone telephone confirmed their triumph was real, and present the mates look guardant to splashing their newfound wealth.

Alan and Muriel wasted nary clip and had already booked a travel to Turkey to celebrate.

The fortunate brace added that it was "amazing" to stock the triumph with the different residents, describing them arsenic "lovely valleys people".

Most of the winners successful Nantymeol came unneurotic to observe astatine the section colony pub, with proprietor Helen Smith describing the news arsenic "fantastic".

She said: "It was a beauteous ambiance here, we enactment connected escaped prosecco for everybody to assistance them celebrate."

"It's bully to spot beauteous radical winning money."

It comes aft a large gran who won £166,666 says her hubby volition person to constitute a "begging letter" if helium wants to spot a azygous penny of it.

Gill English landed the currency connected People's Postcode Lottery successful Rugby, Warwickshire - and is present readying a slap-up carvery meal for her large family.

The retired carer besides said she is prepared to bargain her hubby a caller brace of shoes - but lone erstwhile she sees his "begging letter".