Lottery winner plans to grow better carrots

A 73-year-old grandfather who scooped £25m in one of Britain's biggest lottery wins will not let the prize go to his head, he has said.

Brian Caswell and his wife Joan, 71, from Bolton, were joint winners of the Euromillions lottery jackpot.

Speaking yesterday, Mr Caswell said the cash would pay for a "flash car" and a trip to Rio, Brazil.



And the keen gardener said he would also hire a professional to help grow some carrots on his allotment.

A member of his local allotment society in Bolton, Mr Caswell said he had been trying to grow the vegetables on his patch of land "without success".

"I've followed every instruction in the book and never had any success," he said. "What I'm going to do now is bring a professional in and say, right, sort that out."
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