Ref. 30133-66CANNY Scot Sybil Lee helped celebrate the National Lottery's tenth birthday by pledging her continued support despite having already scooped £2.8 million.

The lucky 58-year-old, who last week moved into a £290,000 three-bedroom bungalow near her former home in Highworth, won the jackpot in April.

And, in the hope of more success, Mrs Lee still diligently enters the main weekly draws at the now lucky Folly View Stores in Faringdon.

Even though she admits the cash has changed her life, she has not yet gone on any wild spending spree, partly because of her 61-year-old husband George's calming influence.

To date she has split £1m between her five daughters and has splashed out £24,000 on a Jaguar X-type for herself, £18,000 on a Hyundai 4x4 for her husband, £4,000 on furniture and £3,000 on a plasma TV.

And even after giving up her nursery nurse job at Westgate House Nursery School, High-worth, she still goes in if there are staff shortages.

"It has not changed me as a person but it has changed my life," said Mrs Lee.

"Now I have no worries or stress. But the best thing of it all was being able to help my family by giving them a secure future."

Her daughters Fiona, 35; Morag, 30; Moira, 28; Andrea, 26, and Clare, 20, have now either paid off their mortgages or bought their first homes.

And now Mrs Lee has more time on her hands she has decided to take up golf with her eldest but, instead of buying expensive clubs, she snapped up a bargain set for £95 from digital channel Price Drop TV.

The loaded couple, who moved from Scotland to the south of England 28 years ago and have been married for 37 years, are now planning to tour their home country early next year but have not ruled out a more luxury cruise in the future.

"All my dreams came true when I won the lottery," said Mrs Lee. "I will always remember the numb feeling when I found I had one after checking the numbers on Teletext.

"We always imagined what we would do if we won and luckily we've had the chance to find out."

Devizes winner Andrea Holmes, who won a whopping £2.5 million two years ago and groups that had benefited from lottery cash joined the Highworth grandmother for the celebrations at Lydiard Park.

Among the partygoers was Kathy McGuire, 54, who sold a scratch card from her Swindon shop Havelock News which won her friend and former owner of neighbouring Gillies Caf, John Morgan, £100,000.

"Our sales of scratch cards have doubled since then," she said.

Ben Payne