IT'S a magnificent seven wins for Bolton's luckiest woman!

Shopper Dawn Baldwin's amazing streak of festive fortune continues to run and run after winning a prize Christmas Draw for the SEVENTH time in just FOUR weeks.

More than 1,000 shoppers have taken part in the competition run by the Crompton Place Shopping Centre.

Each week 10 tickets are drawn, meaning shoppers have had 40 chances of winning a £100 voucher.

Unbelievably, the lucky mum-of-two's numbers have come out seven times, scooping her £700 in prizes.

Dawn, who is training as a nursery nurse at Bolton College, said: "I can't believe how lucky I've been myself.

"I've never won anything like this before and I never have any luck on the Lottery. I've not even won a tenner!

"People have got to know me when I've been at the draw and now people say they want to stand next to me because I'm lucky."

Now Dawn, of Smithills Croft Road, Smithills, is assuring her family of a sack-full of surprises on Christmas morning.

A centre spokesman said: "It's unbelievable to think that she has done so well.

"To win three times was good, five times was brilliant but this is amazing. But she's not on her own. There are two people who have won twice."

Shoppers who have spent more than £5 on goods in the centre can enter the draw if they have their receipts stamped.

The draws take place every Thursday at 7.45pm and every Sunday at 3pm, with five tickets being drawn on each occasion.

If you want to win you must be present for the draw which is held next to the large Christmas tree.

And Bolton's prize draw expert has agreed to forecast the winning numbers for this Saturday's National Lottery draw.

Dawn reckons numbers 3, 5, 16, 26, 32 and 46 will come up trumps.

She joked: "If the numbers come up this week I'll be mad if I have to share it with a lot of people."

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