Lorry driver celebrates scooping £650,000 in Euromillions lottery

0 Jim Forbes and his wife Pam will spend part of their win on a trip to Hawaii An HGV driver is planning to buy a house and enjoy a trip to Hawaii after winning more than £650,000 in the Euromillions draw.

Jim Forbes, 50, and wife Pam also plan to go parttime so they can enjoy their win together along with their two children, Aaron, 19, and Chloe,16.

Mr Forbes has already bought his son a car and other plans include spending Christmas in New York with his wife, who works in the local Spar, and buying a campervan.

Mr Forbes, who spent 22 years in the RAF, discovered he had won when he asked the cashier at his local Asda to check his Euromillions ticket on Saturday while he was buying some Lucky Dip tickets for Lotto. He said: “When I got outside the shop I phoned The National Lottery Line. I thought they would say I had won a couple of hundred or even a thousand pounds but then the call handler asked me if I was sitting down.

“When he told me the amount I was ecstatic, people in the car park must have wondered what was going on.

“I couldn’t believe it. I just kept thinking this doesn’t happen to people like me.”