A UK couple insist positive thinking helped them win a lottery jackpot of more than £2 million.
Paul Kibler and his wife Marie from Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, were revealed yesterday as the winners of last Wednesday’s £2,194,776 Lotto jackpot.
Mr Kibler was watching the news on Wednesday evening waiting for the Lotto numbers to appear while his wife was settling down for bed upstairs. She had been trying to be more positive recently, and shouted down to her husband to win the lottery for her. Mrs Kibler said: “I always remember a lady saying to me, think lucky and you will be lucky. That and trying to be more positive to deal with stress and worry has led me to make a real effort to look on the bright side.”
The couple said they were stunned when they found out they were the only jackpot winner in the February 1 draw.
Donkey whipped on video
One candidate savagely whipped a donkey in a promotional video while two others exchanged angry words in a live TV debate as Russia’s presidential election campaign kicked off in raucous fashion.
With less than a month for the March 4 elections, the clear favourite in the race, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, yesterday spent the afternoon in a long and often dry discussion about Russia’s future with political analysts. Meanwhile the Liberal Democratic Party candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky was shown in a video, sitting in a traditional Russian troika sledge drawn by a recalcitrant donkey.
“When I become president, things will get moving again!” he added, laying into the unfortunate animal with several cracks of his whip as the sledge gradually got moving.
Jubilee whisky on sale
Whisky which has been maturing for 60 years and costs £100,000 a bottle has been decanted to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
A total of 61 decanters of the blended malt and grain whisky were bottled at the Royal Lochnagar Distillery on the Balmoral Estate in Ballater, Aberdeenshire.
One will be gifted to the Queen and the others will be sold around the world for £100,000 each, with all profits from the sale going to the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (Qest), a charity which provides grants and training to craftspeople in the UK. Each crystal decanter is accompanied by two hand-engraved lead crystal glasses, enclosed in a wooden cabinet made from oak and pine from the Queen’s Sandringham and Balmoral estates.
The whisky’s creation was overseen by master blender Jim Beveridge at John Walker & Sons.