A Scot has won £1 million on the National Lottery thanks to a lucky dip bought on the competition's app - as organisers search for a second Scot who won the same amount.
07.11.2023 - 09:49 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A woman who was dumped after an eight-month romance drove into her ex-partner in the middle of the road. Phillip Ashton says he is lucky to be alive after his ex-girlfriend deliberately ran him down, leaving him clinging on to the bonnet of her Renault.
The 29-year-old had struck up a relationship with Kirsty Smith, 30, after meeting at work in Asda. Their romance soon fizzled away, with Phillip breaking things off before Christmas last year.
Yet Smith refused to take no for an answer, the Liverpool Echo reports. And things came to a head three months later, when she turned up at Phillip's flat in a rage.
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Smith began to hammer on the door, before damaging his new girlfriend's car. Phillip said: "That day, when I was up on the bonnet, I thought that's it, she's finally going to kill me. Every time I see a red Renault car it reminds me of her, and I'm always looking for the registration."
The pair met last April as colleagues at Asda, in St Helens, and quickly hit it off. Despite Phillip breaking things off just before Christmas, Smith continued to bombard him with persistent attention.
He claims in another incident, she followed him from work in her car, only ending when he parked in a side street and turned off his headlights. Smith said: "She wouldn't leave me alone, and carried on contacting me, showing up at my address. She was always trying to speak to me or bring me around to speaking to her again."
Things came to an explosive end on March 27, when Kirsty showed up at Phillip's flat and attempted to force her way inside. She then
A Scot has won £1 million on the National Lottery thanks to a lucky dip bought on the competition's app - as organisers search for a second Scot who won the same amount.
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