Bus driver returns to work despite £2 million lotto win
A former bus driver from Chorley has decided to return to his work driving the Stagecoach 125 service despite scooping £2.3 million on the lottery.
Kevin Halstead gave up work last March after matching 6 number on the National Lottery draw a winning £2,302,688. However less than a year later, and the 47-year-old is preparing to get back behind wheel of his bus as he misses the banter with his work mates.
The millionaire had worked as a bus driver on the route between Bolton and Preston for the last 17 years. After leaving his job driving the buses last year, the father of one found that life as a man of leisure left a lot to be desired, and so decided to return to work on a casual basis.
Since winning big on the lottery, the down to earth bus driver says he’s invested in a new set of wheels in the form of a Range Rover, however he has also kept is old Renault Laguna car as he’d only recently bought the motor using the government’s car scrappage scheme when he hit the lottery jackpot.
One of Kevin Halstead’s first duties after getting back on the buses driving the 125 Stagecoach service was to promote a new lottery scratch card. The lotto winner is said to be excited to get back behind the wheel of the bus he’s driven every day since 1994.
National Express Coach passengers in Coventry get free Lotto tickets
National Express coach passengers in Coventry woke up to a nice surprise today on their daily commute into work as a gang of glamorous ladies turned out to hand travellers free lottery tickets as part of the launch of the new Lotto Plus 5 ticket.
The National Lottery is currently conducting a nationwide tour ahead of the launch of the Lotto Plus 5 ticket this weekend. To raise awareness of the new lottery scheme, 250 tickets were handed out to coach passengers travelling on the number 5 service in Coventry this morning.
The new Lotto Plus 5 ticket offers players 5 chances to win. For an extra pound, the numbers chosen for the main lottery draw are entered into a prize draw to win a fixed amount of £250,000 for the next 5 days.
The National Lottery spokesperson says they hope the new ticket will create an extra 500,000 lotto winners a week. The lottery is already responsible for creating 4 million winners every week across all of its games, and it’s hoped the new Lotto Plus 5 will add to this.
Coventry commuters on the Number 5 National Express bus service had the opportunity to try out the new Lotto Plus 5 ticket for free as 250 were handed out this morning to travellers with valid bus tickets.