Lottery winners from around the UK have revealed the interesting – and sometimes potty – ways they spent their money.
Community toilets and a field for a pet dog are among the surprising items National Lottery winners have bought with their cash windfalls.
How some lucky winners spent their winners is revealed in a photo exhibition to mark the 25th anniversary of the National Lottery.
Among those featured are Dennis and Shirley Banfield – who paid for new toilets for their local community centre in Winterbourne, Bristol.
Mr Banfield, 88, and his 84-year-old wife, who won £18,139,352 on Lotto in February 2018, said: "We're still in the house we lived in for 58 years, and the Winterbourne Community Centre has been a hub of our lives here.
"We've celebrated wedding receptions, anniversaries, children's parties, and seen our daughter sing on stage.
"When we read that it needed new toilets, we donated £20,000 for the work – and cut the ribbon outside the Ladies and Gents ourselves at an official ceremony!"
The couple, who also funded new windows with their donation, added: "We joined a lunch at the centre last week and a man got up to use the loo. He said, 'I'm just off to use the Banfields', which really made our day!"
Faye Davies, 37, and husband Richard, 43, from Brecon, Wales, won £1 million on EuroMillions in June 2018 and spent £20,000 on a field for their dog Lucy.
"We found Lucy running up the road, starving and terrified. She had been abandoned on the mountainside a week earlier, and we took her home just for the weekend.
"Within a day, she had a name, and we knew we couldn't hand her into a dog home. But she was terrified of people, of other dogs and water, so dog walks were a nightmare.
"Then, weeks after our win, a half-acre field came up for sale just down the road. We bought it for Lucy and this became her safe place for walkies.
"She's so happy and carefree running around there – and this emaciated, scared dog has now learned how to play.
"Now we also have a Labrador puppy, Khaleesi, so they run together every day in 'Lucy's Field'."
Retired Army warrant officer Ken Wedgeworth, 68, moved from the Midlands to the foot of Loch Ryan, Scotland, with fiancee Jannette, 52, after winning £1 million on EuroMillions in November 2016.
"We set off to house hunt in Ireland after our win and stopped for the night at Portpatrick, arriving at the hotel in darkness.
"The next morning we opened the curtains and I was bowled over by the view.
"We went on to Ireland but neither of us could stop thinking about this amazing little town.
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