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Car Comp Winner

JANET SPROTT has just won a car — and she did not even realise her name was in the competition.

Safeway customer Janet, who lives in Mount Vernon Road, Stranraer, picked up a brand new Fiat Seicento yesterday (Wednesday) And as she told the Free Press, she was “over the moon” when she finally discovered that she had won the car in the Safeway — Free Press promotion prize draw held as part of the store’s Italian Week in July.

“When I went into the supermarket about a month ago the staff were giving away prize tickets with various offers for 20 pence off washing powder for example”, she explained earlier this week.

“When I opened my ticket it said I had won a car. But I was in such a rush that I handed the ticket in and thought nothing of it. It is not the kind of thing that happens very often.

“So when Fiat sent a letter to my husband towards the end of last month to tell him that I had won a car, I said ‘och away you go’. I did not believe him. It came as a big, big surprise. I am absolutely overwhelmed especially as I have never won anything before”.