A MOTHER of four won £1.2 million on the National Lottery - after getting a "sign" from her dead father in the form of mysterious white feathers.

Susan Crossland, 44, told how she and her Mirfield milkman husband Michael, 39, nearly missed the six numbers which scooped her £1,218,618 at the weekend because they were celebrating winning £74 on three other lines on their Lotto card.

But Mrs Crossland, of Ravensthorpe, burst into tears when she described how she believes a shower of white feathers a week before her win was a "gift" from her late father predicting something good was going to happen to her.