A KIND-hearted Stourport couple who scooped £100,000 on the Euromillions are now planning to spend their winnings on fostering children.

Karleen Reece, aged 41, and husband Mark, aged 42, landed the life-changing prize after matching five numbers and one lucky star in the lottery draw on August 18.

The couple will now convert their garage into extra bedrooms so they can begin their fostering journey - a dream they've always had even before having kids of their own.

Mum-of-three Karleen admits she often moaned at her husband for playing the Euromillions each week believing they would never win.

She thought Mark was playing a practical joke on her when he asked her to check the winning ticket while he went to the shops to get some milk.

It was only when she phoned Camelot that the teaching assistant realised they had won a whopping £100,770.

The couple say they will now treat their three kids first before starting the fostering process.

Karleen said: “I’ve always wanted to foster children. Mark and I discussed it many years ago and then we had our own.

"My three kids will be leaving home soon and I have too much love to give. I've always wanted to foster but never had the right circumstances.

"The win will allow me to do this.”

Mark works at Wyre Forest Council as a site officer for their recycling vehicles depot and Karleen is a full-time teaching assistant.

Mark is a regular National Lottery player and bought the winning EuroMillions ticket at the Tesco Express in Kidderminster.

Mark always has a Lucky Dip and the couple were one of three UK winners that week.

The winning numbers from that draw were 23, 25, 30, 44, and 47 and the Lucky Stars were 9 and 12.

Karleen revealed she hasn’t always been supportive of her husband buying EuroMillions tickets - up until almost two weeks ago.

Worcester News: CHEERS!: Mark and Karleen delighted with the winCHEERS!: Mark and Karleen delighted with the win (Image: SWNS)

She added: “Every Friday Mark comes home from work with a EuroMillions ticket, and I always moan at him.

"We’ve won a few pounds over the years, but I’ve never seen myself as a lucky person.

“On the Friday of the win, Mark didn’t give me the tickets as usual because he was out that night and kept them in his wallet.

"We were out on the Saturday night too, so it was only on Sunday morning that I checked the tickets.

"Mark popped out for some milk and asked me to check the ticket. I scanned the first one and nothing. Then I scanned the second and it asked me to claim.

"We called out the winning numbers to each other and the amount from the website.

"As the realisation of what this meant hit us we sat there in disbelief; we were winners.

“I decided to call the number on the back of the ticket and was talking to a lady from The National Lottery when Mark came home with the milk.

"I told him to shush as I was on the phone to The National Lottery. His jaw dropped.

"He looked at me in disbelief so I put the phone on speaker and the lady confirmed she was from The National Lottery, and we’d won £100,770.14.”