STAFF and shoppers are already calling it the luckiest supermarket in Gwent.

The latest Lottery millionaire, Abergavenny Chronicle editor Pat Griffiths, bought her £8.5 million winning ticket - with her regular numbers - at Abergavenny's Safeway store in Llanfoist.

Now Lottery fever has hit the store, with punters packing the tills hoping that some of the luck will rub off onto them.

Duty manager Stephanie Lloyd said: "We are already a busy store for Lottery sales, but even more people are coming here to purchase their tickets. The staff are shocked. We wish it was us!

"The news of the win spread quickly and it's been the talk of the store. Now it's been in the papers we will get even more Lottery sales."

Cigarette kiosk assistant Philippa Davis is thought to have sold the winning ticket.

"Everybody is saying I've got a lucky terminal," she said. "Who knows, perhaps I will win something! I tell you, if I did win it would certainly change my life."

The huge win - the biggest in Gwent to date - has had customers wondering what such a windfall win would do for them.

Housewife Ruth Stokes, 56, of Abergavenny, said: "It would scare me silly to win so much, but I wouldn't go mad. I would buy a nice house and look after my family."

But Newport's Stewart Smith, 39, said he doubted he would ever win. "I always play but never get anything," he said. "If I did the first thing I'd do is pay off the mortgage then move to a bigger house. I would get a new car, but nothing too flashy because I would get spotted everywhere. Well, maybe a Ferrari."

Student Nichola Watkins, aged 23, said: "I play once a week but the most I've ever won is £10. If I won I don't know what I would buy. "Everything I've ever wanted, I suppose, and more!"