A great-grandad who beat cancer three times won £60,000 with People’s Postcode Lottery - and got his dream come true as his wife can now retire. Dad-of-five Bill Puffett, 80, scooped the huge sum after playing with two tickets, while a lucky neighbour in Bishopstone, Wiltshire, won £30,000.
Bill, a retired builder and decorator, battled three different types of cancer - skin, prostate and bowel cancer - over the last decade. He found out he won on Christmas Eve, days after he had been wishing for a miracle which would allow wife Linda to retire from her job as a senior care worker at a care home, and she handed in her notice as a result.
Bill said: “After everything I’ve been through with my health, this is the icing on the cake. I’ve had three lots of cancer and I thought I was very lucky after they said I was cancer-free for the third time but to now win £60,000 - I nearly fainted.
