COLLECTOR Philomena Floyd returned home on Monday evening after a weekend in Cardigan Bay to find a message for her to ring St John's Hospice in Wirral.

"I thought I'd done something wrong on my round," said Philomena, of Prenton. Instead, she discovered that she was this week's winner of the two thousand pounds jackpot on the St John's Hospice in Wirral Weekly Lottery!

Philomena, who became a voluntary collector for the hospice lottery only about eight weeks ago - "I just could not take the 10 per cent commission" - has no idea what she will do with the windfall.

"But I will make sure my family and friends benefit," she said. "I don't know what people will say when I call later this week to collect their weekly lottery money!"

Each week throughout the year, the St John's Hospice lottery computer selects at random the 54 numbers which share the three thousand pounds weekly prize money - a top prize of two thousand pounds, second prize of five hundred pounds, third prize of one hundred pounds, fourth prize of fifty pounds, 20 ten pound winners and 30 five pound winners.

The winning numbers are published each week in the Wirral Globe.

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