What a lotto dosh; Rollover week and we meet the Scots pounds 10m man.(Features)

From: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: June 23, 1996| Author: Drury, Paul | Copyright information

Six months ago nurse John McGuinness was sleeping on an air bed on the floor of his parents' front room.

Today he's on a really cushy number... as Scotland's biggest-ever lottery winner.

And he can choose from a string of luxury bedrooms in a magnificent mansion.

The pounds 150-a-week nurse from Law Hospital, in Lanarkshire, shot to fame and fortune overnight when he landed a staggering pounds 10,055,900 in a pounds 40 million double rollover jackp...

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