Friends grab Lotto jackpot

Descriptor: We first see Alan Stringer and Wally Jenks walking across grass, before focusing in on an oversized National Lottery cheque resting against a tree and panning up to Alan and Wally standing at a bridge.

Narrator: Meet Wally Jinks and Alan Stringer, friends for over seventeen years, and now two of the UK's latest additions to the millionaire's club, and all because they matched with six numbers, to sweep a share of a Lotto Rollover jackpot.

Descriptor: We now see Alan and Wally standing on the bridge, holding the oversized cheque, while they have their photo taken.

Narrator: Both Wally and Alan, from Edenthorpe near Doncaster now share just over two million pounds between them, though remarkably, they were blissfully unaware of their new found fortune for eleven days after the draw, because Wally and his wife Dawn were on holiday in Jersey.

Descriptor: We now see Wally and Alan at The National Lottery press conference.

Wally: We was on holiday at the moment when we won the lottery, ah, so we was millionaires while we was on holiday, we didn't know about it. Kept saying, ah, you've got to be millionaires to live over here, and at the time we was (laughs).

Descriptor: We see Wally and Alan standing on a bridge, holding the oversized National Lottery cheque, before once again seeing them at the press conference.

Narrator: Ironically, Wally started his holiday penniless.

Wally: I lost my wallet on the plane going, so I'd got no money and no cards, so I had to cancel all my cash cards, like, and I still ain't got no, got my cash cards, but no pin numbers now, so I still can't get no money out.

Descriptor: We now see Alan and Wally holding champagne glasses that carry The National Lottery logo.

Narrator: Like many National Lottery winners before them, the news took a little while to hit home.

Descriptor: Once again, we see Alan and Wally and the press conference.

Wally: I checked the numbers and I even checked it three or four times and it still didn't reg, register, until then I realised all the six matched, like, and I thought, I can't believe this, then you just get that sickly feeling in your stomach like, and start sweating and all sorts, really, cos you're so, like, well you're excited, aren't you, really?

Alan: You're not believing it, and then you, you're looking at the thing, and you're looking at the date, it's, something's got to be wrong, you know what I mean, you might have the right numbers, but it's the wrong date. And then when it sinks in you think, but in, even when that happens, and we had to phone the Hotline, it was a case of, "How much have we won?" You know what I mean, we've got this ticket, but we didn't know what it was worth, I mean, oh, a hundred people could have won it that week.

Wally: Yeah.

Alan: But we'd have still been happy (laughs).

Descriptor: Once again we see various shot of Alan and Wally standing on a bridge as they are photographed.

Narrator: Both men have played The National Lottery since it began in 1994. Originally, there were three members in their syndicate, though sadly their friend passed away. However, Wally and Alan decided to continue playing their friend's lucky dip.

Descriptor: Once again, we see Wally and Alan at the press conference.

Wally: Well years ago there was, ah, just me and Alan and there was an old friend of ours that we used to go drinking with, and he passed away, like, so we just said to ourselves, we'll just carry him on, like, as we are, like.

Alan: We'll carry three.

Wally: We'll just carry on with three now, instead of the two. So it might have been his line what come up like, we never know, so.

Descriptor: Again we see Alan and Wally being photographed, before once again going back to the press conference.

Narrator: News of their win spread quickly, yet this didn't bother the jackpot winning pair.

Wally: It didn't get much telling, like, everybody else knew before we did, I think.

Alan: It's a, it's a small village, the drums were out.

Wally: I've never heard nobody say anything nasty or owt like that, they're all really pleased for us, so, which I'm grateful like, really.

Descriptor: Once again we see Alan and Wally being photographed.

Narrator: And it seems that Wally's wife Dawn also deserves a special mention.

Descriptor: Again we see Alan and Wally at the press conference.

Wally: We're just grateful for my wife even getting the tickets.

Alan: I am.

Wally: Cos if it's left to me and Alan, we just keep forgetting, like, so we just keep paying her the money, when we remember and then, ah, she keeps buying them up.

Descriptor: Once again we see Alan and Wally holding the oversized National Lottery cheque as they are photographed.

Narrator: Naturally a win of this size would make a difference to both their lives. But would they carry on working?

Descriptor: Again we see Alan and Wally at the press conference.

Alan: Yes, I intend to, I think the pair of us would.

Wally: I'm, yeah, I want to carry on working for, at least another two years easy. Ah, cos I'm in, I'm in a partnership with a friend, like, so I can't really just let him down like that, saying I'm packing in and leave him in the position he's in, on his own. So, as a friend I'll st, stay working with him,

Descriptor: We now see a wide shot of Alan and Wally, where Wally holds the oversized National Lottery cheque, and Alan sprays champagne into the air.

Narrator: Finally, a message to those who play The National Lottery, who are yet to win a big prize.

Descriptor: For the final time we see Alan and Wally at the press conference.

Alan: It's well worth it.

Wally: Oh, definitely, yeah.

Alan: It could be you.

Wally: And I hope they're just, I hope they're just as lucky as what we've been. That's

Descriptor: Finally we see a green screen, with a white caption, which reads, "WINNERS."