Wife of terminally-ill man who scooped £1million on the EuroMillions says her husband, 77, will 'live the rest of his life in comfort' as she vows to buy a new home with her lotto windfall

• Marlyn Anderson and husband Ian have been living in their ‘bedsit’ front room

A terminally-ill pensioner will spend the remainder of his life in comfort after his wife won £1 million on the lottery and plans to buy a bungalow for them.

Carer Marlyn Anderson, 70, and husband Ian, 77, have been living in the front room of their house due to the round-the-clock treatment he needs for a lung disease he developed after working on construction sites.

Mrs Anderson described their current home in Stirling, Scotland, as ‘like a bedsit’, and she now hopes to find a spacious bungalow nearby after winning EuroMillions.

She initially believed the amount she had won was £1,000 and was ‘delighted’ with that – but began to fear it was a scam when she saw the number of zeroes.

The couple have already bought an automatic car, a Citroen DS 7 Rivoli, with the winnings after Mrs Anderson bought a lucky dip ticket online.

A terminally-ill pensioner will spend the remainder of his life in comfort after his wife won £1 million on the lottery and plans to buy a bungalow for them

Carer Marlyn Anderson, 70, and husband Ian, 77, have been living in the front room of their house due to the round-the-clock treatment he needs for a lung disease he developed

Mrs Anderson described their current home in Stirling, Scotland, as ‘like a bedsit’, and she now hopes to find a spacious bungalow nearby after winning EuroMillions

The couple, who have two children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild, have been married 32 years but they had to give up foreign holidays due to Mr Anderson’s diagnosis of pleural plaques and pulmonary fibrosis, which he believes is linked to asbestos exposure.

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Mrs Anderson said: ‘This win couldn’t have come at a better time. It will ensure Ian can have the very best quality of life in the time he has left.

‘As a result of Ian’s condition, he is unable to get upstairs. He struggles to breathe so we currently have our living room set up like a bedsit. We have no other option.

‘Buying a bungalow will allow Ian to have his own bedroom and for us to have a sitting room too, all on one level. This will be so special as it is something we haven’t been able to do for such a long time. He will be able to live the rest of his life in comfort.’

On March 12, Mrs Anderson discovered she had £4.90 left in her online Lottery account and decided to buy a EuroMillions ticket.

She recalled: ‘I just thought there is no point £4.90 just sitting in my account, I will buy a lucky dip ticket for the next draw.

‘It was the day after the draw that I logged on to my emails just to see if there was any news about my ticket, and there was.

The couple, who have two children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild, have been married 32 years but they had to give up foreign holidays due to Mr Anderson’s diagnosis

On March 12, Mrs Anderson discovered she had £4.90 left in her online Lottery account and decided to buy a EuroMillions ticket

The couple have already bought an automatic car, a Citroen DS 7 Rivoli, with the winnings after Mrs Anderson bought a lucky dip ticket online

‘I initially thought we had won £1,000 and I was absolutely delighted.

‘I then started to count the zeroes, and couldn’t quite believe what I was seeing, so I counted them again. I just kept thinking it couldn’t be true and it must be a scam.

‘I was desperately watching the clock tick to 8am when I could call the National Lottery number to confirm if what I was seeing really was true.

‘I couldn’t believe it when the person on the other end of the phone told me it was.

‘I actually don’t think the news has fully sunk in yet. Neither Ian nor I can believe it.

‘It still all seems very surreal. There is no other word to describe what we are going through right now.’

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