A NEWSAGENT provided a whole lotto luck for one fortunate customer - in her 13th week in the job!

Magic must have been in the air when shopkeeper Carole Ogden - just minutes before the National Lottery's deadline - sold a ticket which earned Marjorie Jones a cool £1 million.

The stroke of good luck at Carole's Newsagent and General Store, in Glazebrook, certainly made Mother's Day for gran-of-17 Marjorie.

And when the dust settled Marjorie, aged 69, from Cadishead, was quick to return to the Glazebrook Lane shop to thank owner Carole and her money-making machine.

Carole, who only took over the business in December, said: "It's really nice to be open for only three months and to do something like this for someone."

It was the first time Marjorie had visited the shop but she promised her family would return to buy more tickets before the midweek draw took place.

Even though news of the jackpot joy spread like wildfire around the village, there was no mad stampede for tickets when the GUARDIAN popped in on Wednesday.

Customer Ron Leatham, a lifelong Manchester City fan, believed there was more chance of his favourite footie team winning promotion than scooping stacks of sterling.

But Ron, aged 64, of Moss Side Lane, Rixton, as he bought his ticket at Glazebrook's luckiest shop, believed City's Tuesday night victory over Notts County was a good omen.

"The first thing I would do if I won the lottery is treat my daughter and three grandchildren, just so I could see the look on their faces," he added.

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