GRANDMOTHER Verna Ormond is toasting her luck after winning a year's supply of her favourite bread.

But a loaf a day proved too much for Verna and her family so now she is donating half the dough to St Anne's Hospice, Newport.

Verna, 54, (pictured) said: "I couldn't eat that much bread so I decided that St Anne's Hospice deserved a share - they were wonderful when they cared for my husband, John, before he died three years ago."

Verna, of Wells Close, Gaer, Newport, thanked her local Spar shop in Bassaleg Road for her slice of luck for persuading her to enter the Brace's Bakery Year's Free Bread competition.

She added: "At the shop they told me to enter my name and when I went back a week later they said 'Verna, you've won'.

"I thought that I'd won the lottery but I didn't know what to do with all that bread when they told me my prize."

But Verna remembered the kindness of the nurses and doctors at St Anne's Hospice who cared for her terminally ill husband.

She said: "John wanted to die at home but he was in so much pain. "St Anne's gave us a private room for his last week and I will never forget their kindness. "Although a few loaves of bread a week might not seem like much I was delighted to help them."

Carolyn Stanley, sales manager at the Crumlin-based bakery, said Verna's request was a bit unusual.

She said: "This is the first time a winner has asked not to receive the whole prize themselves but we were more than happy to split her winnings with such a worthwhile charity."