POOLS winner Viv Nicholson famously said she was going to spend, spend, spend. Diane and Kevin Downing are a little more circumspect. They are going to spend. A bit.
The Acomb couple celebrated their £4 million Lottery win with a week in Scarborough, a new pair of specs, four T-shirts from Next worth £40 and a leather-bound Bible. Their restraint is in contrast to those winners who hurl themselves headlong into a whirlpool of rampant consumerism. But where's the harm in taking your time?
Updated: 10:49 Monday, May 16, 2005
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