A very lucky man from Wales has won the lottery with a ticket he bought to celebrate his passport being found in an 800,000sq ft warehouse hundreds of miles away in Edinburgh .
Tim Jones, from Swansea, realised his passport was missing when he was due on an important work trip to Rome.
Against all odds, he miraculously ended up being retrieving the lost document before going on to with nearly £2,000 after buying a lottery ticket in celebration of the very unlikely find.
Tim, 43, co-founder of a medical technology company, says he practically turned his house upside down searching for his vanished passport and had almost accepted the fact he wouldn't be able to make his important trip to discuss a new therapeutic device for breast and lung cancer patients.
But he then had a small suspicious he had dropped it in a laptop bag he was returning to the Amazon warehouse in Edinburugh.
Thinking there was no harm in giving them a call to see if staff could retrieve it, he could not believe his luck when they went out their way to do just that, Wales Online reports.
The building is equivalent in size to 11 football pitches but warehouse worker Marc, who had lost his own mother recently to cancer, pulled out all the stops to help.
"I had already started the process of trying to get a new passport but thought I’d call Amazon anyway. Why not? Maybe they’d be able to help," Tim said.
"I was instantly impressed by how much Marc wanted to help me, even though I knew the chances of the passport being found were small.
"But Marc made me feel that if anyone was going to find it, it was going to be him.
"Thankfully, and almost miraculously, within a few hours after speaking to him he'd managed to track it down.
"Both Marc and Jonathan, the guy who eventually located it, went above and beyond to solve my problem. I was so lucky."
So much so, a colleague told Tim that, with his current run of good fortune, he should give the Lottery a go.
He did, and, after buying a ticket at his local supermarket he ended up with another pleasing 'return' - a windfall of £1,784.53.
"I have had a spell of very good luck but it couldn't have happened without the tenacity of Marc and Jonathan," said Tim.
He added that despite the lucky strikes, "in anticipation of my next trip, I have now put my passport in a very safe place."
