Sian Black from Tadley cancels lottery ticket then wins £200k days later when RG26 3PE scooped the Postcode Lottery’s weekly £1m millionaire street prize

A stunned grandmother cancelled her People’s Postcode Lottery ticket – then won £200,000 days later.

Tadley resident Sian Black axed her subscription more than a fortnight ago but still made the cut-off date for the January draw.

The 61-year-old, who works as a sales advisor at Tadley Health & Fitness Centre, celebrated with four other neighbours after RG26 3PE scooped the Postcode Lottery’s weekly £1m millionaire street prize on Saturday, February 1.

Sian said: “I had cancelled my ticket then reinstated it after getting the phone call to say I’d won.

“If I’d cancelled a few days earlier and missed out I would have been devastated. I could have been an idiot.

“I’ve never won anything in my life. I can’t even win the bingo.

“Now I think I might get another ticket. Why not? I could win again.”

When she got the call informing her of her £200k win, Sian initially believed she had only won a popcorn maker.

When Postcode Lottery ambassador Danyl Johnson presented her prize, she said: “Eight years I’ve been playing. This changes my life. It’s amazing.

“I’m 62 in a couple of months. What a birthday present.”

Sian is now planning a holiday with her family – two sons, a daughter, their partners and two granddaughters.

She said: “I’ll be going on a nice holiday and taking my best friend with me. With the family, there will be 10 of us.

“We’re going to Portugal—Albufeira—it’s my granddaughter’s happy place. I’d like to go to the Maldives, too, that would be my choice.”

A couple doors along, Alistair Murrey told how he changed his mind about cancelling last year, then breathed a sigh of relief when presented with his £200k cheque.

Dad-of-two Alistair, 50, was left shocked after seeing his winnings as tears welled up in gobsmacked wife Sally’s eyes.

The IT company manager, formerly of Rosyth, Fife, said: “This feels amazing, frankly.

“Genuinely a few months ago I was going to cancel it. I thought, ‘should I cancel the Postcode Lottery? Oh, I’ll just leave it ’.

“What a week this has been since we got the phone call. We have been on tenterhooks.

“Our daughter is studying to be a doctor at uni, so she’ll probably get half of it.

“We’ll have a holiday, blow a bit and save a bit.

“My son might get a new Xbox controller. He competes online and has a YouTube channel. I don’t understand a single thing about it.”

Sally, 50, added: “Can you imagine if we had cancelled it. We’d be spitting feathers if everyone else got something and we didn’t.”

Personal Assistant Sally said she is taking daughter Ella, 19, to South Africa to visit family later this year.

She said: “I’m going to see family in South Africa. I said, ‘I’m just going to do it, I’m just going to do it’ and I did it.

“This is unbelievable. We got married out there. I’ve got a lot of friends there because I went to school there. And we’re surprising my aunt.

“I really would like to do a bit more travel in the summer. Anywhere that’s warm. We’ve been lucky, we’ve seen a lot of the world. But Ella wants to travel.”

Alistair added: “Ella’s got a country list she’s ticking off, so we’ll help her with that.”

The millionaire street win also meant that several local charitable organisations benefitted from receiving funding as well.

The Tadley District & Community Association (TDCA) was awarded £50,000 by the Postcode Community Trust.

TDCA brings together local residents, authorities, volunteers and other organisations to improve the quality of life for people within Tadley.

It runs and hosts over 60 classes and groups throughout the week including fitness groups, youth groups, a food pantry as well as a community cinema.

TDCA chairman Adrian Noad said: “We had no idea that charities like ours benefitted from people playing the People’s Postcode Lottery, so the news of the funding came as a huge shock to all of us.

“£50,000 is a considerable amount of funding that will go such a long way in improving the facilities of our community centre.

“We now have the freedom to look at various refurbishments such as replacing our fire doors to a new kitchen.”

Tadley and District Citizens Advice Bureau also received £60k as part of the win, and Age Concern Tadley and District received £10k.