article_snippet.sent: Most people, when scooping a massive win on the pools or national lottery, might follow the advice of a grey-suited financial adviser and buy a good-sized house, a reasonably flash car, take a couple of nice holidays and then live off the income from what’s left.
article_snippet.sent: When Viv, a cake-factory worker from Castleford in Yorkshire, and Viv coal miner husband Keith won £152,319, 18 shillings and 8d on the Littlewoods Pools in 1961
article_snippet.sent: — the equivalent of around £3 million today
article_snippet.sent: In the money: Viv and husbandKeith receiving their chequefrom Bruce Forsyth in 1961 .
article_snippet.sent: Viv was earning just £7 a week at the factory, and Viv husband the same amount in night shifts.
article_snippet.sent: After the cheque presentation ceremony at the Grosvenor House, Viv collapsed into the arms of the man who had handed the couple the couple massive winnings — Bruce Forsyth.
article_snippet.sent: The children were sent to private schools — the one sensible thing Viv did was to set up a trust to pay for
article_snippet.sent: The children education — and Keith even bought a racehorse.
article_snippet.sent: ’s lottery winners was nowhere to be seen
article_snippet.sent: By then, the couple had blown half of the couple winnings, and in the wake of his death, Harold Wilson’s Labour Government with Labour Government punitive tax system helped Labour Government in death duties to the remaining half.
article_snippet.sent: I earned £50, which didn’t even cover the petrol there and back,’ ’ Viv said, ‘I couldn’t do it; I wasn’t a stripper.
highlights_snippet.sent: Viv won £152,319, 18 shillings and 8d on the Littlewoods Pools in 1961 .
  