Call the millionaire midwife!
A MIDWIFE is still doing the job she loves five years after winning £1m on the Euromillions lottery.
Ruth Breen, 39, was working at Wigan Infirmary on the day she found out she had won the huge sum in July 2014.
But despite swapping baked beans on toast for tea and buying a blue BMW, the devoted nurse refuses to give up work.
“I love my job, so why give it up because I can afford not to do it any more?” she said.
“I’m not the sort of person who could just go for lunch with the girls every day. It’s a vocation and it’s something that I could never imagine giving up.”
Ruth, mum to teenage daughter Lucy, has reduced her hours so she’s able to do ‘all the great things like taxiing a 16-year-old girl around the north west’. She said the money hadn’t changed her and she was still down-to-earth and grounded ‘because £1m as much as it is, in this day and age, sadly it’s not enough to retire at the age of 35 and you could blow it all quite easily on a big house and a few cars’.
Ruth, from Wigan, admitted times were tough before the win which meant she regularly ate modest dinners ‘to make sure we could survive and live’. She remembers thinking she’d be paying off the mortgage forever when she first bought the property in July 2014.
“Before the win, I was always in my overdraft,” she said. “Times were tough. They weren’t desperate, we still had a reasonable standard of living, but times were hard so I’d have to be very careful in the olden days. A massive weight was lifted on that day and I realised I didn’t have to worry about my council tax going up a band when I moved house and we could now afford to get broadband.”