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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Momodou[/i] [br][b][size=4][url="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36436004"]Wiltshire chef scoops £4m and returns to Wetherspoon shift[/url][/size=4] BBC: 2 June 2016[/b] Amadou Gillen won £10 followed by £4m on two scratchcards [img=left]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/7F72/production/_89862623_6277773d-5588-4c13-9613-a26949b089f1.jpg[/img=left]A pub worker who landed £4m on a lottery scratchcard went straight back to finish his shift in the kitchen and kept quiet about it. Amadou Gillen, 46, bought two scratchcards during a break from work in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. On the first card - scratched in the staff area - he won £10 and the second made him a millionaire. The father-of-two, who works for Wetherspoon in the town, said he was "screaming and dancing inside". "I think my shift finished at 11.30pm or midnight, so it was almost four hours that I kept it quiet," he added. [b]'Never bought a car'[/b] It was not until the following week that the kitchen manager told his daughters, aged 20 and 22. Speaking during a National Lottery news conference, he said he had booked a trip to the Gambia - where he was born - to visit family and was looking to change his rented one-bedroom flat for a four-bedroom house. He received the money on Tuesday and is now planning to complete his driving test and buy his first car. "I have never started lessons. I have had my provisional driving licence since 2009 but I have never been able to afford to have a car or lessons," he said. "At the moment I just want to get a simple Peugeot and then I will get a BMW X6. I want to start an intensive course by next week." Mr Gillen has worked at the pub for five years following an apprenticeship with McDonald's. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.