Car recovery driver Colin Carter was so worried about losing his lottery ticket after scooping a £2m jackpot he slept on it until he could claim.

Colin, 55, his wife Debbie, 37, and children Ben and Lisa, who live in a council house in Sinodun Road, Wallingford, couldn't believe their luck when all six of their numbers came up on Wednesday night - winning £2,061,475.

Colin said: "After the first three balls were revealed, I shouted out to the rest of the family that we had won a tenner, but the balls continued to come.

"Just before the sixth ball dropped, I said: 'If we get 34 we've won the jackpot'. The dog barked and there it was, number 34.

"None of us could believe it, we started jumping up and down, screaming and hugging each other. I slept with the ticket. That was the worst bit, waiting overnight."

He is now to replace his 15-year-old Ford Orion with his dream car, a £27,000 Toyota Supra, which has a top speed of 200mph and costs £27,000. He said: "I know from experience that Toyotas are very reliable. After picking up hundreds of other cars for the last few months, I can now fulfil a dream and pick up my own Toyota Supra.

"I bought a lucky dip ticket because I was feeling lucky, but I never dreamed we'd be this lucky." as they crowded round the television with their daughter Lisa, 16, clutching the ticket which Mr Carter bought from the post office in their street Debbie, a cashier for Lewis Cowan bookmakers in High Street, Wallingford, said: "I just want to get a nice house, that's about it really.

"We have never owned a house before."

They are also going to buy a Suzuki Vitara jeep for Debbie and all have a holiday for them all.

Ben, 18, works as a mechanic in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell. Lisa, 16, has just left Wallingford School and is waiting for her GCSE results while working as a kennel assistant in Benson.

She just wants to go shopping with any money she is given but will be chauffered around in style by the rest of her family.

Mr Carter added: "We haven't always struggled but life will be easier than it was before.

"It definitely won't be spend, spend, spend."

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