A woman who won a £4.5m house has joked the prize shows why she should never listen to her husband.

Nicola Dickinson, from Wiltshire, said her husband Martyn Dickinson had told her to stop entering a prize draw for expensive homes as she would “never win in a million years”.

The couple are now celebrating after bagging a Lake District home with a lake, woodland jetty, sauna, hot tub and gym.

Nicola, 59, said: “I’ve been entering for four years. Martyn has been moaning at me to stop – but I liked that even if I didn’t win, I was supporting amazing charities. But winning has shown this is precisely why I never listen to him, and thank goodness I didn’t – we’re multi-millionaires now.”