£800 for old Easter egg
EGGSPENSIVE Chocolate
A 97-YEAR-OLD Easter egg which survived the Second World War smashed its estimate by selling for £800 at auction.
Christine Lilian Metcalf was given the Pascall’s chocolate treat aged two in 1924 and kept it until her death in 2019.
Auctioneer Charles Hanson, of Etwall, Derbys, said: “You can still smell the chocolate. We can’t guarantee the taste.”
Pascall was bought out by Cadbury in the 1960s.
A EUROMILLIONS lottery winner who scooped almost £115million still checks her gas and electricity bills to make sure she’s not overcharged.
Ex-teacher Frances Connolly, 54, who landed the jackpot in 2019 – the fourth highest lotto payout in the UK at the time – with hubby Patrick, said she also keeps coppers in a giant whisky bottle.
The mum is from Northern Ireland but now lives in a five-bed bungalow – complete with swimming pool and tennis court – in Co Durham and has given away £60million of her winnings.
Asked if she was a “saver or a spender”, Frances said: “It’s kind of hard to say we save now, because the bank is full of money, but I still have a sensible attitude towards it.
“I look for a bargain everywhere I go and check the bank every month to see what I’m paying for gas and electric.
“I’ve got a big jar with coppers and coins in it, it’s a whisky bottle, my dad gave it to me years ago.
“Every time it gets full, it goes to charity.”
Asked how the pandemic had affected her, she told how she had to be careful as she has diabetes.
She added: “I think I’ve been to Tesco three times.”
Frances told The Sunday Times that she and Patrick had dished out more than half of their jackpot winnings to friends, family and charities.
She added: “We have
FRANCES CONNOLLY ON DISHING OUT JACKPOT given away £60million, which is more than half of the money we won, but at the same time it has been like winning the lottery every day for two years.”
Asked about her home, Frances said she was perfectly content with a five-bed bungalow – and didn’t want to live in a “palace”.
She added: “We own our house in the North-East.
“It’s an old five-bed bungalow with five acres, but it has a modern feel inside.
“When we won the lottery an estate agent sent us a brochure for this stately home – it was like Buckingham Palace and about £8million.
“If you bought it you had 250 acres and you owned the village. Paddy, my
CORKER OF A PRIZE Frances & Patrick
husband, said to me, ‘We can’t afford that, we’d have to pay for all those caps for people to doff at us when we drive through the village’.”
The highest ever EuroMillions win was £180,210,000 last month and there have been five UK jackpot winners who have netted more than £100million.
They include Colin and Chris Weir, from Scotland, who landed £161,653,000.
France and the UK have had the most jackpot winners, with 104 each.
We’ve given away £60m, more than half of the money that we won