Garbage collectors win $113 thousand
Published: March 22, 2006
A WHOPPING £65,000 will be shared out among bin men and office staff at the Service Team headquarters in Manby after a win on the National Lottery.
Manager of Cleanaway, which runs Service Team, Nick Davis said: “It’s not the sort of money you can go mad with, but it’s nice.”
The win was discovered on Saturday night by a member of the team, which is contracted by East Lindsey District Council to collect rubbish from businesses.
The cash will be split between 20 employees – netting them £3,200 each.
One female member from the admin team, who did not wish to be named, said: “It’s brilliant – I’ll be upgrading my car with the money.”
Another winner, Kevin Blurton from Mablethorpe, said: “I’ll be putting central heating in my house.”
The ticket was bought at Spencers Newsagent in Louth’s Mercer Row, which is proving to be the luckiest shop in the area, following a spate of winning tickets sold over the counter in the last year.
Owner of Spencers, Peter Spencer said: “It’s the lucky shop again! I’m very pleased somebody else from Louth has won.”
He added: “I had a letter from someone in Norfolk recently, with money in it asking me to send them tickets.
“I sent the money back with some of our lottery tickets which had been through our machine and wished them luck.
“Recently we had some Germans in the shop who told us they had seen on German TV Spencers was the luckiest shop in Britain – it’s hilarious.”
The syndicate of 19 men and one woman from the Service Team started entering the draw when the National Lottery began in 1994 and have used the same numbers since the beginning.
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