A mum finally won the lottery after playing it since it began in 1994 - but she decided not to tell a soul apart from her own family.
In an exclusive piece for Metro, her daughter, who writes under the pseudonym Charlotte Thomas, describes how she was just minutes into her usual 10-4 shift at a coffee shop on Mother's Day in 2011, when her boss approached her saying her mum was on the phone.
After hearing her mum wanted to speak to her urgently, Charlotte held the phone to hear ear and listened as her mum said "I've won. I've got six numbers".
