Forgotten ticket makes British couple rich

London - When most people rummage through their kitchen drawers, they rarely uncover anything more exciting than a mislaid knife. Joanne and David Austin, however, found a lottery ticket that made them rich.

The couple, from Hull in northern England, were oblivious to the fact they had bought a winning ticket in Britain’s National Lottery a month ago, on January 8.

However, the lottery operator, which can identify where winning tickets were bought, ran an advertisement in a local paper saying someone from Hull had not yet claimed a £3-million (about R33-million) prize.

Joanne Austin, 38, ransacked a kitchen drawer and pulled out a pile of old tickets, only to be “shell-shocked” when one of them contained the winning numbers.

“I opened the kitchen drawer where I keep our Lotto tickets and got them all out to check as I hadn’t done it for ages,” she said as the lucky family were unveiled as winners by the lottery operators.

“When I found the one for that date I kept staring at it and then the numbers in the papers. I just couldn’t believe it.”

Her husband has resigned his job working for a caravan manufacturer, but Mrs Austin said she would stay working at an estate agent, to “keep my feet on the ground”.

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