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Last Updated: Wednesday, 13 July, 2005, 10:33 GMT 11:33 UK
Whisky workers toast £15m success
Whisky winners (left to right) Angela Griffiths, Irene Cameron, Isabell Devlin, Susan Ferguson, Elizabeth Eaglesham and Mary Milroy
Each member of the all-female lottery syndicate picked up £2.5m
Six whisky bottling plant workers in Glasgow are in high spirits after scooping £15m on the National Lottery.

The all-female syndicate work at the Morrison Bowmore whisky plant and matched all six numbers in Saturday's Lotto jackpot draw.

The group all work in the Springburn factory's bottling hall and collected £2.5m each.

They only discovered they had won the mammoth windfall - Scotland's second largest lottery win - on Tuesday.

Their winning numbers were 22, 37, 7, 20, 23, 34 and the bonus ball was 38 on a ticket held by supervisor Isabell Devlin.

The 38-year-old from Glasgow will share her winnings with colleagues Angela Griffiths, 46, Mary Milroy, 56, Irene Cameron, 42, Elizabeth Eaglesham, 56, also from Glasgow, and Anne Ferguson, 58, from Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire.

All six have now taken some time off to come to terms with their good fortune.

We still can't believe it - it's just incredible
Isabell Devlin
Ticket-holder

The winners are all married and four of them have children.

Ms Devlin said: "The syndicate plays the Lotto every Saturday and Wednesday.

"It was my turn to put the numbers on and I don't usually check the previous draw until I go to buy the tickets for the next one, but something made me check the numbers on Tuesday morning instead.

"My daughter noticed I was shaking and asked what was wrong, so just in case, I said I thought I'd won £10 so as not to disappoint her.

"I had to go to work and keep it all to myself until I could phone up Camelot.

Lucky Dip

"As soon as the win was verified, I asked to close down a bottling line and got the girls together to tell them the news. We still can't believe it - it's just incredible."

She bought the winning Lucky Dip ticket at the Co-op store in Wallacewell Road in her home city.

It is the second time in just over a year that a syndicate of Scottish whisky bottlers has hit the jackpot.

In May 2004, seven workers at Chivas Brothers near Edinburgh won £2.4m.

Scotland's biggest lottery win was in 2000 when six butchers from Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire, scooped £20m.




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