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Evening Standard
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Dave Higgens

£1m lottery couple celebrate being grandparents after windfall funds IVF

Grandparents Ruth Chalmers (2nd left) and Mark Chalmers (3rd left) with their daughterLeanne Chalmers (left) and Natalie Chalmers (right), and the two grandchildren Brogen Chalmers (front left) and Koby Armitage (front right) after the grandparents, who scooped a £1 million a lottery windfall, say they now feel like double winners after they were able to help both daughters have children through IVF (Danny Lawson/PA)

A couple who scooped a £1 million lottery windfall say they now feel like double winners after they were able to help both their daughters have children through IVF.

As soon as they realised they had won on the EuroMillions Raffle in February 2018, Ruth and Mark Chalmers’s thoughts turned to the struggles their daughters Natalie and Leanne each had with the condition polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

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