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Angela Ferguson & Nisha Mal

Delighted cousins win £1m in Postcode Lottery due to quirky loophole

Two cousins were stunned to find out they'd won the entire £1m pot in the Postcode Lottery. Margaret Livens and Joyce Ablitt, both aged 72, are the only people living on their street and the only ones who have their postcode.

Margaret and Joyce live next door to each other, in two semi-properties that their husbands built. The land that their houses are built on was gifted to them by the grandad 47 years ago.

Because they are the only two houses on the street the local council told them they'd have to name the street and have their own postcode. Now, thanks to this unique quirk, the cousins - and Margaret's husband Harry, 73 - are celebrating after scooping the jackpot.

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