£50,000! That’s the ticket

Tuesday 29th September 2009, 2:57PM BST.

Staff at Pinnacle Trustees celebrate their win. Picture by Tony Pike (00800123)

SPENDING £15 on a lottery ticket made a ‘pretty good return’ for every worker at the Pinnacle Trustees firm, they each won £50,000 on Friday evening.

The 20 staff bought one ticket between them and could not believe it when they won the Jersey Hospice Million Pound Lottery.

James Weatherall, one of the directors of Pinnacle Trustees, joked that winning £50,000 turned out to be a ‘pretty good return’.

He added that he did not even know that the lottery numbers were being drawn that night, but luckily the financial controller, Lesley Downie, who he said was used to having her ‘eye on the money’, was watching the live broadcast on Channel Television.

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