'Grumpy Old Men' scoop £200,000 Health Lottery prize

A GROUP of sixty and seventy-somethings are celebrating an unexpected £200,000 windfall on the Health Lottery.

A GROUP of sixty- and seventy-somethings are celebrating an unexpected £200,000 windfall on the Health Lottery.

The friends, all hailing from in and around Maltby and aged between 64 and 70, raised a glass to mark the boost to their bank balances after their ten-strong group scooped the top prize.

The lucky bunch includes Geoff Shakespeare (70), Roy Ferguson (67), Barry Briggs (68), Les Shakespeare (64), Joe Worthington (70), Ken Cheetham (67), Cyril Viney (67), Alan Marshall (66) and Tony Fallon (66), plus a tenth member who did not want publicity.

Former engineer Tony Fallon, 66, who bought the winning £5 lucky dip syndicate ticket, said: “We are known as the Grumpy Old Men because are always sitting in the pub putting the world to rights.”

The friends matched all five balls—10, 11, 14, 21 and 31—to scoop the double jackpot on Saturday, February 18.

Eight of the group took a trip to the Birkenhead offices of the Health Lottery last week to celebrate their win—travelling in a stylish chauffeur-driven limousine.

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