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A martial arts enthusiast pulls a vehicle with a rope connected to his eye sockets during a performance in Hefei, Anhui province November 30, 2009. Picture taken November 30, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily

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    Student celebrates $12 million lottery win

    LONDON
    Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:55pm EDT
    A customer selects numbers on a ''EuroMillions'' lottery ticket in a tobacconist shop in the small village of Truchtersheim near Strasbourg, France, February 2, 2006. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

    LONDON (Reuters) - The credit crisis and tight student budgets hold no fears for a British teenager who won 7 million pounds ($12.68 million) on the Lottery.

    Oddly Enough

    Ianthe Fullagar, 18, from Cumbria, northern England, said she still plans to go to university next year to study law, despite her huge win on the EuroMillions game.

    Although she won't need a student loan or inflated overdraft, she said she hopes to be just like the others at college.

    "I'm going to live the life of a student. I'm going to live in student digs," she told the BBC on Tuesday. "I love baked beans."

    The teenager said she screamed so loudly when she checked her ticket that her dog jumped up and bit her on the bottom.

    She hid her winning ticket in her bra before moving it to a jewelry box and then her gym bag while she waited for her win to be confirmed.

    After receiving an over-sized check at an official ceremony, she said she plans to spend her winnings on her family and friends and a new Ford Ka.

    (Reporting by Peter Griffiths)
    Oddly Enough


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