A GROUP of Penzance supermarket workers are currently facing an anxious wait for official confirmation of a £500,000 lottery win.
The win, last weekend on a lucky dip on the Thunderball lottery and amounting to £31,250 each, would be shared by 16 members of a syndicate at the Co-op in Market Jew Street.
But syndicate leader Colin Coombes, a customer team member at the store, said he is taking nothing for granted.
"We're in limbo at the moment as they have to run a series of security checks," he said.
"I bought the ticket at the store and know that everything should be OK – the purchase was filmed on CCTV – but at the moment they are still going through the checks and I don't want to say anything until we get the money."
Mr Coombes has been running the syndicate at the town centre Co-op for eight years and only a couple of weeks ago he distributed the proceeds of all the lottery gains made since the start of 2013 – £15 for each member.