Couple's dream home move after chance Lottery win

Ann Webster in the specially-adapted kitchen in her new home, paid for from her lottery win

It was a chance nudge while filling out their National Lottery numbers that would change Don and Ann Webster's lives.

Mr Webster accidentally chose a different number when a stranger bumped into his wife, causing her to nudge into her husband as he picked his numbers in a supermarket.

Rather than start again, the couple, from South Derbyshire, left the numbers as they were - and won more than £1m in 2006.

Despite the win, it would take 15 years before they would be able to move into their dream home, specifically designed for Mrs Webster, 69, who uses a wheelchair.

Mrs Webster had always wanted a home which best suited her needs, but it took years to find a suitable plot, with work starting in 2019.

She had to negotiate narrow doorways and ramps leading up to doors in her previous homes.

Mrs Webster's new house features wider corridors and doorways to make life easier for wheelchair users

But her new riverside home, which she and Mr Webster designed, is level throughout and suited to wheelchair users.

Mrs Webster said she was determined the four-bedroom property should not look like a disabled person's home.

"I wanted it to look like a nice house for me that is liveable for me," she said.

But clever features make the kitchen more user-friendly, including lowering the worktops by a few centimetres.

She added: "We cut off part of the plinths at the bottom. It's shorter than normal, but you don't notice."

'A lot easier'

The couple won £1,023,801 in the draw on Saturday 6 May, 2006.

But it was thanks to the nudge in the supermarket that all six numbers matched.

"Don had always played the same numbers, but on this occasion a man bumped into me as we were filling in our forms in the supermarket," said Mrs Webster.

"I nudged into Don, and he accidentally chose the number 34 rather than his usual 43. Had he chosen 43, we would have won just £829!"

The Websters have used some of their winnings to pay for holidays.

Mrs Webster said: "Now we can afford to stay in five-star hotels, and we can pay for first and business class flights, which makes things a lot easier for me."

The couple are now settled into the home they never thought they would have.

"We've always had to adapt previous houses we'd lived in, but it's never the same as starting from scratch," said Mrs Webster.

"I was determined I didn't want ramps to any door because you can't carry a cup of coffee and go down a ramp at the same time."

More than 7,000 people have become millionaires since The National Lottery started 30 years ago.