BARNTON pensioner Anne Raffle was thankful for the luck of the draw after she was first of the hat in the Chronicle’s £100 shopping giveaway.

We teamed up with Tesco to mark the official opening of the new improved store at Manchester Road in Northwich – and to give five lucky readers a free weekly shop.

And Anne, of Townfield Court was one of five chosen at random yesterday, Wednesday – just the ticket four days before her 77th birthday.

“It’s a nice early present,” said Anne, who works at the St Luke’s Hospice shop on Witton Street on Wednesday mornings. “I don’t usually win anything!”

Anne was the oldest of four fortunate females winners. The others were Sheila Richardson, 73, of Beech Lane, Barnton; Eleanor Yarwood, 63, of Meadow Grove, Leftwich and 26-year-old Emma Spruce of Bannister Grove, Winsford.

And last, but not least, our fifth and final winner was 42-year-old Paul Lambert, of Turnberry Close in Rudheath.