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Cancer Patient Wins Lottery10 August 2004BELFAST, Northern Ireland – As reported by Reuters: "A 58-year-old cancer sufferer from Northern Ireland was unveiled on Friday as the biggest single winner in the 10-year history of Britain's National Lottery with a 20.1 million pound (US$37 million) jackpot. "Iris Jeffrey, a mother-of-two from north Belfast, bought the winning ticket on July 14, but did not realize she was sitting on the massive windfall until lottery organizers made an appeal for the missing winner to come forward earlier this week. "…The record winner said she intended to spoil herself by buying a new washing machine and was planning a holiday in Las Vegas with retired husband Robert, 62…" |