Plumber Nets Big Lotto Win, Goes Straight Back to Work
Hardworking plumber John Doherty might have thought about hanging up his spanners and taking life a bit more easily when he won the lottery back in July, no one would have blamed him. But quitting work...
View ArticleUK Lotto Live Television Draw to be Axed
Since the National Lottery launched in the UK in 1994, the draw has been televised on BBC. At first it was the big Saturday night draw, then the Wednesday draw was added and we saw twice weekly draws....
View ArticleUK National Lottery Accounts may have been Hacked
It’s feared that the accounts of around 26,500 UK Lotto players have been hacked according to a statement from Camelot today. The company who run the National Lottery and UK arm of the EuroMillions...
View ArticleGreat Grandmother Wins Canadian Lottery ‘Too Late’
An 80-year-old grandmother from Alberta, Canada has scooped a massive lottery win worth $50,000,000 and when asked what she would do with the money stated that “I’m too old for this” and that she...
View ArticleEuroMillionaire Thought She’d Won £2.40
A £1,000,000 EuroMillions winner could have easily missed out on her prize after thinking she had won £2.40! Jacqui Shannon, a charity worker for the NSPCC is a regular player of the EuroMillions and...
View ArticleEuroMillions Winner Buys Home for Disabled Boy
EuroMillions Winner Gillian Bayford has barely been out of the news since she won the EuroMillions with her now ex-husband, and not all of it has been good but today we have a real feel good Christmas...
View ArticleLast Rush of Players for the Spanish El Gordo
Spain’s Christmas lottery is one of the most famous lottery draws in the world and with a prize pool that totals €2 billion, it’s easy to see why! Every year, Spaniards go lottery mad and the draw is...
View ArticleExtra UK Lotto Prizes for Christmas
The National Lottery in the UK has announced that they are beefing up the Christmas prizes with extra prizes for Christmas Eve, and then again for New Year’s Eve! It’s been an exciting year for the...
View ArticleWelsh Lottery Set to Launch in 2017
We watched the Welsh government devolve from Westminster, and now it seems they are devolving the Lotto too as a brand new Welsh draw is set to launch in 2017! The Welsh Society Lottery plans were...
View ArticleUK Lotto Paid Out Millions on Fraudulent Ticket
An enquiry into a lottery ticket query from back in 2009 has confirmed that Camelot, owners of the National Lottery paid out £2,500,000 on a fake lottery ticket! The Gambling Commission has conducted...
View ArticleOne Hundred Extra Lotto Prizes for New Year Draw
We hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas, and we hope you remembered to buy tickets for all the festive draws. It’s been exciting festive season with some big jackpots and extra prizes too but...
View ArticleWill 2017 be the Year of the Community Lottery?
For the best part of two decades, the National Lottery have had lottery play in the UK all sewn up with the Lotto, EuroMillions and all the side draws too. There are plenty of draws to play in, but you...
View ArticleCouple Bin Winning Lottery Ticket with Christmas Rubbish
A couple almost missed out on a huge lottery prize over the festive season after throwing away the winning ticket with the Christmas rubbish! Mum of two Joanne Joynson from Merseyside had tried her...
View ArticleBig Unclaimed Lottery Prizes to Expire this January
With the age of information and the ability to buy lottery tickets online, you would think that unclaimed prizes would become a thing of the past, but not so and this January alone in the UK £4,500,000...
View ArticleLottery Millionaire Assaulted in Local Pub
A £10,300,000 lottery winner is the victim of an alleged assault in what is said to have been a violent rampage. John Bowman who became a multi-millionaire last April is one of three people that...
View ArticleOregon Man Becomes Snow Day Lotto Winner
When the weather outside is frightful there’s not much to do but have a snow day and maybe spend some time at home catching up on chores. This was the case for Joemel Panisa of Logsden, Oregon who was...
View ArticleLifelong Friends Share Oz Lotto Jackpot
Two lifelong friends who have played the same numbers on the Australian Lotto for 25-years have finally won big, netting a jackpot worth $2,000,000. The pair from Perth have gone halves on the tickets...
View ArticleIrish Player Scoops Huge EuroMillions jackpot
The Luck of the Irish strikes again this week as one player from the country becomes the first EuroMillions winner of 2017, scooping a jackpot worth almost €89,000,000! The draw has not had much...
View ArticleBasildon Player Could be First Unclaimed Prize of 2017
Lottery players in Basildon in the UK are being urged to check past lottery tickets as a £1,000,000 prize goes unclaimed. The Lotto Raffle prize is the first unclaimed prize of the year, and while the...
View ArticleThirteen Unclaimed Lotto Raffle Prizes Expire This Month
There’s quite the run of unclaimed prizes from the National Lottery right now and a baker’s dozen of them are from a single draw back in August last year. The Lotto super raffle draw on 17th August was...
View Article
