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.