Thatcham man's £61,000 Lotto win

Sharing his name with rock and roll legend Brian May, the 62-year-old won big last week after playing the Lotto twice a week for almost 20 years.
The self employed businessman, who runs a wholesale plant business, didn’t realise he had scooped the prize until two days after the draw.
Mr May promptly returned to the Co-operative Food Store on Broadway in Thatcham where he purchased the ticket, estimating the win would be around £10,000.
He said he was “gobsmacked” when he discovered his winnings were over six times that, with the cashier advising him to ring the National Lottery as the sum was too large to cash in store.
“It took some time for it to sink in,” said Mr May. “It’s not the sort of thing that happens everyday.”
However he has not always been so lucky, suffering a severe heart attack in June that saw him rushed to hospital for emergency surgery.
“I’m virtually as new,” assured Mr May. “It’s one bit of bad luck, one bit of good luck. Next time I could do without the bad!”
He is also in no rush to splash the cash, with so far a few improvements to the home he shares with his sister and elderly mother, including a wood burning stove and new windows, being the only plans on the table.
“There’s no immediate hurry,” he said. “It’s always the way. If you have got money in your pocket you can never find anything you want to buy, but there we are.”
He added: “I shall probably tuck a bit away for a rainy day.”
Also a keen philatelist, Mr May, who has been collecting stamps since his childhood, will be keeping his eyes peeled for some unique Austrian stamps, which can vary in price from 10 pence to more than £20,000.
He also plans to continue working, although admits the win will allow him more time to care for his mother Peggy, aged 88, who suffers with dementia.
“It’s a nice buffer for when things don’t go quite right,” he said, adding he will continue to play the Lotto twice weekly for the foreseeable future.
“Just in case it’s my turn.,” he concluded. “You never know.”