A WOMAN and her husband who won more than £2m on the National Lottery have opened a pub in memory of her late father.
Ashlie Chapman and husband, John, have turned a derelict club in their home town of Easington, east Durham, into Cliffy's.
The couple and Mrs Chapman's mother, Doreen Price, who together won £2.1m in November 1998, have spent the past seven months renovating the town's former Royal British Legion Club, which closed five years ago. They have named it after Mrs Chapman's father, Clifford Price, who died in 1981. Mr Price was on the committee at the club and both he and his wife were regulars.
The couple, who have two sons, opted to stay in the town, moving from their terraced house to a £136,000 home on a new estate.
They said they decided to open the pub after becoming bored of taking luxury holidays.
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