CHRISTMAS has come early for one Chippenham woman after she was named as the Gazette & Herald’s Love2Shop coupon competition winner.

Patricia Osborn, of The Paddocks, was presented with her £250 on Wednesday, after being selected at random for collecting three coupons in the Gazette & Herald.

“It is a really lovely surprise,” the 76-year-old said. “I don’t have a computer so if there’s a little competition in the paper, we usually enter and I’ve been quite lucky in the past.”

Mrs Osborn, who said she never expected to be named as the winner, has not yet made a shopping list but will share the money between her and her husband and her daughter Lorraine.

She added: “I’m not sure what to spend it on at the moment. My daughter Lorraine doesn’t know I’ve won yet but I’m sure she will come round for some I expect.

“It was so unexpected but it has come right in time for Christmas and I am delighted.”