A widower who works up to 60 hours a week caring for dementia patients says he has no plans to quit is £15,000-a-year job despite scooping an £8million lottery jackpot.

Sutton man Ron Elliott, 67, says will not let his rollover £7,959,312 windfall affect him too much and that he does not plan to leave the job he enjoys as the residents at the Wallington care home need him too much.

Grandfather-of-two Mr Elliott, who lost his wife in an accident just a year after they were married 42 years ago, bought his winning ticket in a lucky dip - where the numbers are chosen at random - at Sutherland News off Brighton Road near his central Sutton home, as he has done almost every week since the National Lottery was launched 19 years ago.

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Mr Elliott with his lucky balls

As he was not working, he stayed at home to watch Saturday's National Lottery show when the winning numbers - 10, 28, 32, 36, 37 and 49 - were drawn. He said: "I was lying on my bed. The first three numbers came out and I thought I'd won £25. The fourth number came out and I thought I might win £70, then the fifth dropped in and I thought 'I can't see 49 coming out' but it did and, my God, I had all six."

Mr Elliott called organisers Camelot to register his claim but was told it could not be confirmed until the following day so he put his winning ticket in his pocket and went to bed. Despite knowing he was the only winner of the whopping jackpot, he went to work the following day and got the all-important call in the middle of his shift.

He added: "I had a few calls at work so I couldn't keep it quiet. I work in a small team and they were all more excited than I was! None of them could believe how cool I was. I'm just taking it in my stride."

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Mr Elliott said he still has not managed to develop a taste for champagne and prefers a pint of lager

He said he has not made many plans for how he will spend his winnings apart from going on more trips to regular holiday favourite Indonesia, buying a house so he can move out of the maisonette he shares with a flatmate and paying off his son's mortgage.

One thing he does not plan on doing is leaving his job. He said: "I find it a satisfying job - If I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. Now I'm in a position where I could leave but I want to carry on.

My clients have dementia and suffer from memory loss. They don't care that I've won the lottery and they still need care."

Mr Elliott celebrated his win by spraying champagne following a press conference at the Grange restaurant in Beddington Park on Wednesday but does not think he'll be changing his regular order for a pint of lager on occasional trips to O'Neill's in Sutton High Street. He added: "I don't really like Champagne - I always get the bubbles up my nose!"