A retired builder from Devon has won nearly £12m on the Spanish lottery.

Elvis Presley fan Bill Potter, 60, from Combe Martin, had used £11,000 from a previous lottery win to take part in draws for the past three
years.

Elvis Presley fan Bill Potter, 60, from Combe Martin, had used £11,000 from a previous lottery win to take part in draws for the past three years.

He said he could not believe it when he was told his winning numbers of 16, 25, 30, 36, 38 and 44 had come up.

Despite winning 17.4m euros, Mr Potter said he will not become a lotto lout, but will organise a trip to his idol's home Graceland in the US.

Mr Potter said he had a shock when he received a telephone call from the European Lottery Guild, the company through which he played the lottery.

As the firm's biggest winner he was flown to Vancouver, Canada, on business class to pick up his cheque for 17,391,507 euros.

Mr Potter, who reinvested £11,000 from a previous £16,000 win on the Spanish lottery to scoop the jackpot.

He said: "I shan't be going berserk. I shall just use it wisely for charities and what I want to do.

Australia trip

"As long as I can still go to football, that's all I worry about. As long as people just say, 'Hello Bill', I couldn't give two monkeys."

As well as the Graceland trip, he does also intend to go and watch England play cricket in Australia.

Mr Potter added: "[But] I just want my life to go on doing what I've been doing since I retired from work."

He joins a growing list of South West lottery winners.

Pete Kyle, from Plymouth, became a multi-millionaire in February after a £5m win.

A year ago, Thea Bristow, from Torquay, won £15m. She and her husband used some of the money to take a group of 90 scouts and their families on an adventure holiday in Canada earlier this year.