A couple with eight children and a pet parrot have won big on the Postcode Lottery - because they live in a tiny village near Bristol and they had four tickets between them.Mark and Wendy Skuse’s BS35 postcode covers the little hamlet of Lower Morton, just to the north of Thornbury, and their exact postcode was the winning one in the latest draw.
Three people living in the BS35 1LD postcode play the People’s Postcode Lottery - and each winning ticket gets £30,000. So while the third player living in the small South Gloucestershire hamlet, who chose to remain anonymous, got £30,000, because Mark and Wendy had two tickets each, they won four times over - and are now £120,000 to the good.
The couple run a drain service business together and have eight children and grandchildren, as well as a parrot called Benson. “I'm going to buy my parrot Benson a new cage,” joked Wendy, 53, who said her parrot is ‘very vocal’. “He's going to be singing the Postcode Lottery song back to me very soon!” she added.
