A WORCESTERSHIRE family is £250,000 richer after a lottery win predicted by tarot cards.

Nigel Cummings, from Evesham, a partner in CBG Transport, Badsey, has driven away with the £250,000 Thunderball jackpot on Saturday, April 14 - after his big win was predicted in a tarot card reading six months ago.

The 46-year-old's good luck was foreseen when his wife Caroline visited a tarot card reader who told her that her husband would scoop a top prize on the lottery.

Although it was a nice idea, she thought nothing more of it and forgot to even mention it to Nigel.

The win became crystal clear when the couple were watching the draw live on BBC1 - Nigel initially thought he had won £50 but after checking more closely, he realised he had matched all five numbers and the Thunderball and had become a quarter of a million pounds richer.

As well as winning the Thunderball jackpot, Nigel also won on a couple of National Lottery Scratchcards on the same day.

The couple are also hoping that some of their good fortune will rub off on their favourite football team, Cheltenham Town.

Nigel and Caroline have not yet decided what to do with their winnings and will be asking daughter Claire, aged 19, and son Danny, who is 17, to help them make their final choices.

Nigel said: "Caroline hadn't mentioned the tarot card prophecy as I'm a bit sceptical about those kinds of things - but I think I'll believe in it in the future.

"When I found out we'd won, I jumped up, picked up Caroline and danced around the living room!

"We immediately called our children to let them know the good news. We then grabbed a bottle of champagne and ran round to our neighbours to help us celebrate in style."

The winning ticket, which was a random selection of numbers, was bought at Spar on Fairfield Estate.

The winning Thunderball numbers on Saturday, April 14, 2007, were 2, 5, 7, 20, 31 and the Thunderball was 10.