£2.4m Lotto win written on doors

Susan and Jeffrey Wall won the Lotto using their house numbers

A couple who have played the Lotto every week since it began have scooped £2.4m using their family house numbers.

Susan and Jeffrey Wall, from Blaina, Blaenau Gwent, hit the jackpot this weekend with the same six numbers they have used for eight years.

The pair, who have been married for 36 years, have no plans to move out of their terraced house.

But Mr Wall, 55, has already quit his job as a gas and water mains foreman.

Explaining her lucky choice of numbers, Mrs Wall, 53, a housewife and mother-of-three, said: "It's simple, isn't it?

"I used to live in number four, my mother lived in number 10, we live in number 20, my son is in 24, my mother lived at 39, and 49 was just the last number so we used to stick that on there."

I still feel sick with shock, I can't explain it. It doesn't feel right Susan Wall

Mrs Wall said her husband had been laying laminate flooring at their home on Saturday night when she shouted they had won the Lotto.

She said: "It (the floor laying) was all going wrong and he wasn't in the best of moods."

But she said their celebrations meant her husband still had not had a chance to finish the floor.

Mr Wall said that at first he thought there was something wrong with their ticket.

"Two weeks before I'd done the lottery in work and thought we'd won a tenner, but it turned out we had the wrong date," he said.

"I thought, there's got to be something wrong with this ticket as well. But I checked again and it was right."

Flat screen television

His wife added: "I still feel sick with shock, I can't explain it. It doesn't feel right."

She said the first thing they did was telephone their children Sharon, 36, Donna, 33, and Paul, 30.

Mrs Wall said none of them believed her at first and that Donna even came home early from a hen night to make sure it was true.

The couple said they had already been out to buy a flat-screen television to replace the second-hand one they bought for £40.

A VW Golf and a motorbike are also on their shopping list, they said.

The couple say a new car is on their shopping list

But Mrs Wall said they were not thinking of moving from the terraced house they have lived in for 22 years.

"I've got all my family around me where I am, my sisters, daughters and son," she said.

Mr Wall has already told his boss he was not going back to work.

"I've been doing it for 36 years and it was getting a bit hard," he said.

The win takes the number of jackpot winners in south east Wales since April last year to six, scooping a total of more than £26m.

In May, grandmother Joanne Gilbert, 47, from Abertillery won £1,146,742, and, the month before, single mother Jennifer Southall, from Newport, scooped £8,372,751.