Don and Lorna Carter are £10,000 better off thanks to a competition run by NatWest Home Insurance.
All the Maldon couple had to do to win the loot was to give the company their home or car insurance renewal date before the end of December.
Mrs Carter entered the competition along with 55,000 people across the UK and her name was the first to be drawn.
David Webb, Maldon branch manager of NatWest, presented the cheque to the couple, who live in Hemmings Court.
Mrs Carter described the prize as fantastic, admitting: "When I first heard I had won, I thought that somebody was having me on."
Published Thursday, January 27, 2005
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