A Dewsbury woman has described how she won £1.2m on the National Lottery after getting a "sign" from her dead father in the form of mysterious white feathers.
Mother-of-four Susan Crossland, 44, told how she and her husband Michael, 39, nearly missed the six numbers which scooped her £1,218,618 at the weekend because they were celebrating winning £74 on three other lines on their Lotto card.
But Mrs Cro
ssland burst into tears when she described how she believes a shower of white feathers a week before her win was a "gift" from her late father predicting something good was going to happen to her.
Mr Crossland explained how his wife found a single white feather on the doorstep following her father's death two years ago and she had kept it.
In the days leading up to her lucky day and her 44th birthday on Friday, they began to find white feathers all over the place.
The couple also won on the set of numbers her father used to play the lottery with.
Mrs Crossland said: "My win must have been fate which is why I saw the feathers and won on his number line."
Her husband said: "A week before the lottery win there were white feathers dropping into the garden and all around. She thought it was because of her dad and because it was near to her birthday.
"There was another white feather and then another white feather and then, obviously, it was the jackpot."
The couple, from Ravensthorpe, said they are still coming to terms with their win and have no plans to change their lives apart from buying a new house to help with their plans to start fostering children.
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