Millionaire student gives money away

Ms Nash spent part of her gap year caring for Thai orphans

A student who won £32,000 on the game show 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?' has given every penny of her prize to a home for disabled children in Thailand.

Lydia Nash, who is studying psychology at Wadham College in Oxford, scooped the cash on a special "freshers and professors" edition of the ITV quiz.

Ms Nash worked at the Christian Care Foundation for Children with Disabilities, which cares for abandoned children just outside Bangkok, for six months earlier this year.

In Oxford, the 19-year-old from Dulwich in south London now earns just £35 a night from her part-time job as a waitress.

I thought of the first time I saw the children in their cots, being offered no love or stimulation Lydia Nash

She shared her prize with quiz partner Mark Batty, a theatre studies lecturer from Leeds.

Ms Nash told reporters: "I thought about keeping £2,000 to buy a laptop and good speakers and also thought about getting a new coat.

"But then I thought of the first time I saw the children in their cots, being offered no love or stimulation.

"As it was a gift from God I felt I ought to give it away. I knew how much further it would go in Thailand.

"Compared to Westerners I felt that they needed the money a lot more than we did.

"They were so ecstatic when they found out."

Ms Nash says she is planning to fly back to Thailand to see how her gift is being used.