£18m Lotto win hasn’t changed us... we are staying in our home of 57 years, but we are having it done up a bit

THEY could have bought a mansion, but Britain’s oldest lottery winners are returning to their modest home of 57 years – after spending four months living in a budget hotel.

Dennis Banfield, 87, and wife Shirley, 83, have been married for 60 years and lived in the same house for most of them.

They scooped an £18million jackpot in February, but rather than move into a plush new pad, the couple have opted to renovate their family home.

They brought up their two daughters there after buying the property in 1961 – when the average house in Winterbourne, Glos, cost just £2,000.

But the couple didn’t head to a luxury resort while the builders were in – opting instead for a nearby budget hotel, with rooms costing £66 per night.

Speaking outside the hotel yesterday, the couple said they are looking forward to moving back into their home before Christmas.

Shirley said: “We decided to stay in the house and just have the whole of the inside of it completely redone.

“We’ve been there for 57 years now. We know the area, the house is not overlooked, it’s got a lovely big driveway.

“We’ve gone back to see it as it’s been done up.

“There’s still a bit of a way to go on it, but we’re hoping to move back in within the next fortnight – we’ll definitely be back in in time for Christmas.”

The three-bed property has a current estimated market value of £316,000.

The front garden is still full of fittings that have been torn out for the renovations and a large skip in the front garden is full of plasterboard – with a decorator’s van and a skip parked outside.

But the generous couple, who have given away a lot of their winnings to

All that mattered to us is that our girls are OK

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