GORSE Hill pensioner Pat Carter went home with nearly £3,000 worth of prizes after hitting the jackpot in the Evening Advertiser's Price is Right grand final.

Pat said she only went along to the final to enjoy a night out she didn't dream she'd go home with the top prize.

"I am absolutely overwhelmed, I have never won anything before tonight," she said.

But as she was planning to travel home in a taxi she wasn't quite sure how she would get it all home.

She said: "I'm just in shock, I didn't ever think I'd win all that.

"What I really wanted was the widescreen TV I was going to buy one anyway when my current TV broke down."

The Evening Advertiser's Price is Right competition started back in June and attracted nearly 1,000 entrants.

It was sponsored by Currys who staged the final at their Greenbridge retail park superstore.

Readers were invited to collect tokens to compete for weekly prizes and also for the chance to take part in the grand final.

Each week they had to guess the correct price of a product from the Curry's range.

Of the two weekly winners one went through to the grand final and one kept the prize they had priced correctly. In total more than £7,000 worth of prizes were given away.

The eight finalists took part in a fun version of the 1980s quiz-show the Price is Right with game-for-a-laugh store manager Shane McGivern becoming Swindon's answer to Bruce Forsyth.

Wearing a variety of costumes he invited the contestants to "come on down" and guess the price of a variety of items from the Curry's range.

Three of the eight then made it through to the final where they had to guess the combined price of a Whirlpool washing machine, Grundig widescreen TV, Panasonic DVD player, Indesit fridge freezer, Smeg dishwasher, Baumatic oven, Teac stereo, Britta kettle and Delonghi deep-fat fryer.

Pat Carter, who formerly worked at the Torin factory, came closest with her guess of £2,095 and so won the lot the correct price was £2,718.59.

Pat also went home with a second Delonghi deep-fat fryer, George Foreman grill, Breville toaster, kettle and sandwich-maker won in an earlier round.

She said: "All I really wanted was the fat-fryer, but I am over the moon to have come home with all this."

Pat was up against some stiff competition fellow contestant Sheena Green, 31, from Covingham, appeared in the real Price is Right in 1998.

That time she came home with a signed photograph of Laurel and Hardy worth thousands so she was not too disappointed to leave last night's repeat performance with just a bottle of bubbly and a Curry's goody bag.

She said: "I was more nervous this time because I knew in advance when you go on the real Price is Right you don't know you're going to be picked until the last minute.

"It was all good fun anyway I've really enjoyed it."

Self-confessed competition addict Steve Clarke, 55, from Freshbrook, also made it through to the final three.

He's Sheena's dad and said he couldn't complain too much when his luck finally ran out last night last year he won a brand new car from Ford.