A York worker today announced his £7.6 million jackpot on the National Lottery.

Jubilant Ray and 59-year-old Barbara Wragg - both fanatical Sheffield United fans - announced their good fortune at the Blades' Bramall Lane ground today.

Dad-of-three, Ray, aged 62, a supervisor for York-based Northern Cladding, said they were both still on cloud nine following Saturday's win.

Ray, who celebrated with a can of Stones beer, picked his numbers by noting car registration numbers as they overtook him on his work rounds from the business in Ings Lane, Nether Poppleton.

Ray said: "During the week I can travel up to 1,000 miles in the car and find it fun to make a note of cars' registration numbers (from one to 49) as they overtake me on the roads."

The couple's lucky numbers were 7, 9, 10, 40, 41, 44, which won them £7,649,520.

The win pushed the amount of Lottery cash won in the Yorkshire area to £501 million.

Ray said: "We were babysitting my four-year-old granddaughter,

Danielle, and as we turned over for the lottery show she told me to cross my fingers and my legs.

"As we looked down the list of five numbers Barbara was just saying "nothing there" and "rubbish" and then suddenly she realised we had won a big prize."

The couple bought their winning ticket at a branch of Safeway's supermarkets and now plan to go on a massive spending spree.

They plan to use some of their winnings to buy a £12,000 executive box at Bramall Lane.

The couple, who live in Meadowhead, Sheffield, have three children, Mark, 35, Shaun, 30 and Amanda, 25, four granddaughters and a three-week-old baby grandson.

First on the shopping list is a cruise holiday to replace the couple's annual jaunt to Torquay, a brand new white Range Rover and a very special gift for their granddaughter.

Barbara joked: "We have always promised Danielle we would get her a green horse with a black tail - it's something she's been asking for since she first learned to speak.

"So, if anybody has got one and can help us we'd be very grateful.

"Last Wednesday we had just two numbers from eight lines and I said to Ray I've got to go to work on Monday, I've got 'flu and you promised we would win. As it turned out, he waited until Saturday !

"When we found out we'd won there was absolute pandemonium. Then we rang up all our children to tell them and when Ray was on the phone to our son, Mark, he thought his dad was having a heart attack because all he could say was 'Mark, Mark, Mark'."

No one was prepared to comment today at Mr Wragg's workplace, Northern Cladding Limited, at York Business Park, Nether Poppleton.

Staff at a nearby garage said they knew nothing about the win.

They said workers from Northern Cladding did use the garage and shop, but they did not know them by name.

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