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Mumsnet, lottery winners and salary check

How five millionaires have dealt with their fortune - what are the luckiest numbers? What happens when you win? Take a paycheck - why are some worth more than others? Mumsnet - 10 years on.

What would you do if you won the national lottery? Improve your literacy? As part of World Book Day, Danny Buckland's published a book (as part of the Quick Reads series aimed at adults who want to improve their literacy) it's called We Won the Lottery!

The UK's National Lottery has created 2,300 millionaires. Expensive cars, big houses and dream holidays are all top of the wish list for those ordinary people whose lives are changed with a winning ticket.

But what about buying a boob job for your sister, giving away holidays to children with cancer or hiring a private helicopter for the school prom? For the first time, five winners share the details of their shopping sprees and the highs and lows of their lives once they became millionaires.

Are some people worth the money we pay them? We compare salaries of the rich and famous to those working a 9 to 5 slog on minimum wage. Why are some more blessed financially than others?

Keeping mum - it's the 10th birthday of Mumsnet, an internet-based organisation that provides help and information. We hear your stories of when you needed help the most.

Plus on the run up to Mothering Sunday we hear a selection of tales called 'my mum'.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 2 Mar 2010 09:00

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  • Tue 2 Mar 2010 09:00