A BAR manager from Durham is celebrating today after scooping a £1,093,000 prize in the EuroMillions Mega Week draw last week.

Kevin Piper, 55, won £1million on UK Millionaire Maker on Tuesday February 21, and chose the cash alternative to the Mega Week experience, the ultimate Hawaiian Adventure, giving him the grand total of £1,093,000.

And the win comes just days before Kevin is due to jet off to Thailand.

Kevin, who is single, said he remembered it was a special draw and decided to try his chances.

After working throughout Christmas and New Year in his job as a bar manager in his local social club, the Belmont Club in Grange Road, Durham, he decided to treat himself to a three-week holiday to Thailand for early March.

He said: “This win couldn’t have come at a better time.

“I had booked a holiday as a treat to myself for working all over Christmas and New Year. I had been saving really hard for this holiday.

“But now all of my money worries have been taken away. I am planning an upgrade into the best room in the hotel and I will definitely be having the holiday of my dreams – the world is my oyster now following this amazing win.”

Kevin, a keen golfer, says he will use his three-week holiday to think about how he will spend the rest of his winnings.

Kevin added: “I will just take my time – this is all so much to take in and it still doesn’t seem real. A think a new set of golf clubs and a new car will also feature high on the shopping list!”

Kevin described the moment he discovered he had won and how he still immediately went into work, despite being over £1m richer, because he “didn’t want to let anyone down.”

He continued: “I always buy my lottery tickets from the Spar in the High Street in Durham and I always check them in the same shop too.

“As the assistant put my ticket into the machine there was a strange noise which I hadn’t heard before and she just said to me I needed to call Camelot.

“I just thought it was probably several hundred or at the very best, several thousand pounds. As I left the shop I said to the assistant, imagine if I have won £1m! Never did I believe this would ever be true.”

And Kevin said the news is still sinking in: “It actually still doesn’t seem real and I still cannot believe this has happened to me. I am unsure when it will actually all start to feel real!”

Kevin, who also won £70 on EuroMillions two weeks ago, says he has no plans to stop working and will continue to play Lotto and EuroMillions: “If it can happen to me twice, it can happen again!

“I want to take my time and think carefully about how I will spend and invest my new-found fortune.”

The amazing Mega Week draws take place each month with two big draws in one amazing week. They create £1m winners who also receive once in a lifetime luxury lifestyle experiences. Kevin’s winning UK Millionaire Maker code was XFRG 98785.

The National Lottery changes the lives of winners like Kevin as well as communities across the UK – players raise, on average, over £36m for National Lottery-funded projects every week.