OXFORDSHIRE, England 9 Aug (ANA) - A couple have had a welcome change in fate after winning £ 1m in the National Lottery just a day after one of them was made redundant. David and Shelley Adams, from Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, became instant millionaires this week after a stroke of luck saw them scoop the seven-figure sum after playing online. It is particularly fortunate timing for the pair, as David lost his job as a wood machinist just one day before – an event they admitted wasn’t even the worst thing the couple have overcome this year. David said: ‘Just last year Shelley was diagnosed with MS and had to give up the job she loved as a community carer, putting a strain on our finances and heightening her clinical anxiety. 

‘In April we sadly lost my sister-in-law due to a massive heart attack, then two weeks in early May we received the news that sadly so many families have received this year, her husband, my brother, had passed due to Covid-19.’ Last Friday, he was given the news that he’d been made redundant. But David’s luck was about to change. Shelley said: ‘On Sunday morning, about 1.30am, David came into our bedroom saying “are you awake”, to which I pretty grumpily replied, “well, I am now”.(ANA)

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