A daughter has won the lottery after using dead mum's numbers and accidently ripping up and binning the ticket. Before the 65-year-old died, Kelly Firth, 44, bought her mum Carol's Lotto Hotpicks tickets every week.
She happened to find the numbers written on a card while clearing her mum's flat months later - and played them at the shops, with a line on Wednesday and Saturday. The full time mum-of-two ripped up the ticket when her numbers didn't come up on the first draw but was astonished when three numbers came up on the weekend draw.
Grandmother-of-four Kelly was celebrating and shouting to Carol's ashes on her TV stand and was interrupted when her mum's favourite song, 'You're Simply the Best' by Tina Turner, came on the radio. Kelly had to hunt through the flat's communal bins to find the scraps of her discarded tickets which she then pieced together to bag her the £1,600 prize.
