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Wednesday lottery rollovers this July
It’s been a collection on Wednesday rollovers this July, as every midweek lottery draw since the month began has rolled over. Last night’s draw didn’t disappoint and now we have yet another Saturday rollover to play for. Following the trend of the last few weeks, the midweek National Lottery draw has rolled over and that means lottery players have an estimated £7 million to play for this Saturday!
Lottery Intervention at Dewsbury Moor
Dewsbury Moor in Leeds will always be known as the home of Shannon Matthews and the abduction of the girl by her own parents. Highlighted by the ordeal was the fact that the area is so rundown but now thanks to National Lottery intervention from the good causes fund, the area is to get an injection of cash to improve the living conditions and facilities for people in the area.
Lottery UK Film council axed
In a shock decision by the coalition government today it has been decided that the UK Film council who give out millions in lottery funding a year is to be axed. The UK Film council axing was a shock decision today from Jeremy Hunt and is so far, the largest UK quango to be disbanded. It’s not the only lottery organisation to face the chop, the Museum, Libraries and Archives council is also to be disbanded after today’s announcement.
Cars and Cash at the National Lottery
Scratchcards that give away big cash prizes are what the National Lottery does best but now they are stretching the boundaries even more as they give away cars and cash on the newest scratchcard from the National Lottery. As soon as we heard about this new scratchcard in the lottery news we headed over to their website to be one of the first to play the new instant game online.
Three share the lotto rollover
Saturday rollovers seem to be becoming a habit of late, but that doesn’t mean that interest is waning, quite the opposite in fact as last night’s National Lottery draw showed. The rollover draw was estimated to have a £6.5 million jackpot but in the event it climbed to £7.2 million. Last week one winner walked away with the entire lot, but it’s shares this week as three lucky players walk away with over £2 million each.
Euromillions rolls and Lotto rollover
What an exciting weekend it’s turning out to be for UK Lottery players. Last night’s Euromillions lottery draw resulted in a £23 million rollover and now tonight’s there’s an estimated £6.5 million UK Lottery rollover up for grabs. That makes for millions in lottery jackpots for National Lottery players to buy lottery tickets for.
Looking for Millionaire Raffle winner
The National Lottery today is looking for a Millionaire Raffle winner who has still not stepped forward to claim the raffle prize. The prize won a few weeks ago is worth a life-changing £1 million but the winner still hasn’t stepped forward. The winning Euromillions ticket was bought in the Bedfordshire area of the UK and was purchased for the Euromillions Lottery draw on 9th July.
Bumper Saturday Lotto jackpot
July seems to be the lucky month for Saturday lottery players as every draw this month has been a rollover. Yet again looking at the lottery results, the Wednesday jackpot has rolled and that means a £7 million lottery jackpot for the weekend. Last week’s £7 million winner has now stepped forward, could you be next? There’s only a chance of that if you buy lottery tickets for the £7 million National Lottery rollover at the weekend.
Five unclaimed lottery prizes for August
It would seem that many lottery players from around the UK had a very forgetful February as there are five unclaimed lottery prizes to expire this August if the winners don’t come forward. Many winners have just a couple of weeks left to claim and one, just a few more days so we thought we’d give a rundown of the unclaimed lottery prizes in the hope that we can jog someone’s memory.
National Lottery Show first
This Saturday the nation is to see a National Lottery show first as Mumzy Stranger and Preeya Kalidas perform their debut track ‘Shimmy’ on the BBC National Lottery show. The event will make history as the first two British Asian acts ever to perform on the show since it launched in 1994, something worth celebrating and something that is sure to get the lotto show off to a bang on Saturday evening!
No branching out for lottery
Following up the lottery news story about how the operators of the UK Lotto had applied for permission to allow bill payments from lottery terminals comes the decision by the National Lottery Commission that the application has been refused. It’s been a few weeks since the story came to light and clearly the National Lottery Commission have made a decision and how they came to it is interesting.
One winner scoops Lotto rollover
This weekend has been so exciting for UK Lottery players with both the Euromillions and the UK Lotto having rollover jackpots. Last night the Euromillions lottery was won by a single player and now the UK Lotto has been won too! One winner walks away with the £7 million rollover jackpot from the National Lottery, check the lottery results now to see if you’re a winner!
Third Wednesday Lottery rollover
For the third week running, the Wednesday UK Lotto jackpot has rolled over! For the last fortnight, the Saturday UK Lotto jackpot from the National Lottery has been an estimated £7 million thanks to the Wednesday night rollovers and now with last night’s Lotto rollover, that makes three weeks running! Check the winning numbers from last night’s draw on our lottery results page as there were plenty of smaller winners from last night’s UK Lotto draw.
Big Money with the National Lottery
The National Lottery are always launching new scratchcards and instant win games and not just of the cardboard variety either. If you play the Lotto online you’ll already be aware of the amazing instant wins and scratchcards available at the National Lottery website and now you can win big money with the National Lottery with their new game, Big Money, available to play at the National Lottery website right now!
National Lottery sale approved
After months of speculation in the lottery news, the sale of the National Lottery to the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan has finally been approved by the Lottery Commission and can go ahead. At present five major companies each own a 20% share in the company who run the UK Lotto and UK branch of the Euromillions Lottery but the entire company is to he sold to the highest bidders, the Ontario Teacher’s Pension plan.
Win a holiday to Brazil with the National Lottery
If you buy your lottery tickets online for the UK Lotto and Euromillions Lottery draws, you may have noticed that you can often enter promotions on the National Lottery website. We’ve reported on promotions to win all sorts of treats and household electronics but this time the National Lottery have outdone themselves as they offer a holiday to Brazil as a promotional prize.
Split for Lotto Rollover
UK Lottery players certainly had a lot to be excited about this weekend with back to back lottery rollovers. On Friday evening the Euromillions Lottery boasted a £23 million jackpot and then last night it was the turn of the UK Lotto and yet another rollover jackpot of £7.4 million. But while the Euromillions may have teased players and rolled again, the UK Lotto jackpot was split, as two lucky players matched all six winning numbers in the draw.
Two Lotto jackpots still unclaimed
From time to time, we see lottery prizes go unclaimed and added to the fund for good causes. Each lottery winner has just 180 days to claim lottery prizes before they are lost forever and right now there are two lottery jackpots, both worth over £1 million waiting to be claimed in the National Lottery offices. Here are the details of the latest unclaimed lottery jackpots and how long is left to claim.
Yet another Lotto rollover
The midweek lottery excitement was over and without the sight of a single millionaire. No lottery players matched all six winning numbers in last night’s National Lottery draw and that makes Saturday’s jackpot an estimated £7 million! You can check last night’s lottery numbers on our lottery results page to see if you were one of the lower-tier winners and then look forward to the weekend when we have double the rollover fun.
Lottery scam victim commits suicide
An inquest has ruled that an 84 year old grandmother from Bedford committed suicide because she lost all her money in a lottery scam. Lieselotte Gerrard 84 was found dead after taking an overdose of pills, following becoming a victim of an international lottery fraud. It’s one of the most tragic cases involving a lottery scam we have ever heard at the National Lottery offices and means it’s time, again to warn potential victims of lottery scams to steer clear.
Five share Lotto rollover
It’s been an exciting weekend in relation to lottery draws in the UK with last night’s Euromillions rolling over to next week and £7 million up for grabs in tonight’s UK Lotto. But no massive rollover winner was created tonight as five lucky players share the UK Lotto rollover. The rollover jackpot reached £7.5 million in the end, giving each lottery player £1.5 million, not a bad return for a £1 stake.
No top winners for Euromillions
It’s Saturday and that of course means it’s time to check the Euromillions Lottery results from last night. You can check the full results on our lottery news pages but unbelievably, no one in the UK won any of the top level prizes. It wasn’t just the jackpot that proved too elusive for UK Euromillions players, as the second and third division prizes were not won either. Here's all the news from last night's Euromillions draw.
UK Lotto heads for a rollover
After pondering midweek on whether the midweek National Lottery draw would be shared so many ways that no millionaires would be created but in the event, no players matched all six winning numbers and that means tomorrow’s UK Lotto draw is a £7 million rollover. That means there is almost £20 million up for grabs in lottery prizes up for grabs to UK players this weekend.
Will tonights Lotto winners be millionaires
It’s Wednesday and that of course means it’s the National Lottery UK Lotto draw but after the results of the last few weeks one wonders if the UK Lotto winners will even be millionaires. When the UK Lotto launched, prizes were big and millionaires were plentiful but these days the jackpots are more modest and many jackpots are shared between several winners so often jackpot winners are not even collecting £1 million.
Voting Closed for National Lottery awards
We’re at the semi-final stage of the National Lottery awards 2010 and things are certainly getting exciting now, next up is the final round of public voting as the public vote is now closed for the semi-finals. The next round of public votes runs from July 26th to 13th August so now it’s time to think about what your favourite project for good causes is and vote accordingly. Every vote matters so choose carefully and you could be making one organisations dreams come true.
Deadline looms for lottery winner
5pm is just a few hours away and that’s the deadline for one lottery winner to come forward and claim their prize. The unclaimed lottery prize is for a lottery ticket sold for the New Years Eve National Lottery draw and the five and the bonus prize expires today. Many shouts have been put out for the winner on both our lottery news pages and in the local and national press, despite this, the winner has still not come forward and the prize remains unclaimed.
UK Lotto shares once again
It seems to be becoming a habit for the National Lottery, each week, many winners sharing the jackpot, making much smaller payouts that expected. Even last weekend’s Lottery rollover had four winners for the £8 million jackpot and the midweek rollover only paid jackpot winners £224,000 each. Last night’s lottery draw boasted a jackpot of over £4 million but five winners meant that the jackpot winners will collect less than a million each.
It wasnt me for Euromillions
A UK lottery player has been forced to stand up and announce it wasn’t him who won the record £84 million jackpot on the Euromillions Lottery a few weeks ago after receiving begging letters from as far afield as China. The unfounded rumour started immediately after the result that the lucky Euromillions winner was an Asian gentleman from Blackburn, Lancs but whoever it was, it wasn’t this unfortunate soul who has been deluged with requests for cash.
New Euromillions advert
It’s a Euromillions rollover tomorrow evening, the first one for six weeks and unsurprisingly it’s got lottery players around the UK excited. The draw coincides with a brand new ad campaign for the Euromillions Lottery. The ad focuses on the fact that the jackpot is big enough to share and carries the tag line ‘There are millionaires and then there are Euromillionaires”.
Online scratchcard player wins big
Online scratchcards and instant win games are becoming more and more popular and not just from the National Lottery, players love them for the thrill of playing, the amazing prizes and the ease of play online. Many online gaming sites now offer instant win games and scratchcards and one of these has just had a massive online scratchcard winner. Scratch2cash has just given away a life-changing prize on their online scratchcard website and we’d like to congratulate the lucky winner.
Banned festival wins lotto support
A music festival usually held in Bolton, Lancashire was cancelled by council chiefs last year, but now, after receiving a National Lottery grant, the festival will be back next year. It’s one of many grants awarded by the Big Lottery Fund Awards for all programme and this particular good cause certainly came out on top this year. Here's all the news on the Big Lottery Fund awards for all and how it is helping many organisations around the UK.
Four share the Lotto rollover
It was an exciting night as the UK Lotto had a rollover jackpot up for grabs. It was an estimated £7 million but high ticket sales produced an £8.1 million jackpot and a massive four ticketholders matched all the winning numbers. Each winner in last night’s National Lottery draw walks away with £2 million each. It's a nice even share, with everyone winning a life-changing amount of money. That has to be a good lottery result, surely?
And the lottery rollovers begin
Forget the World Cup, the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and everything else that’s going on in the news right now as tonight, the lottery rollovers begin as the National Lottery rollover is drawn. It’s not just the UK Lotto rollover to look forward to now though, as last night the Euromillions also rolled over, giving UK Lottery players plenty to play for this week.
Will Euromillions Lottery make it five
The question on everyone’s lips today is whether this week’s Euromillions winner will be from the UK, or even if it’s going to be won at all? For four weeks running, there has been a Euromillions Lottery winner, unusual for a draw with odds of one in 74 million. We’re used to big rollovers and bumper jackpots but can the Euromillions Lottery make it five weeks with a winner this week?
No winners for National Lottery
It’s Thursday and that means the National Lottery results for Wednesday night are in and ready to be checked. A quick scan of the lottery results tells us there were no winners in last night’s National Lottery and that means we have an estimated £7 million rollover for Saturday evening. There were lots of smaller winners and you can check the results and amounts on our lottery results page. Here’s all the news from last night’s draw.
Euromillions winning couple are very lucky indeed
You’d think winning £12 million would be all the good luck one person could reap in a lifetime but it seems not as Friday’s winning Euromillions couple have proved by winning the Euromillions jackpot, matching three numbers on Saturday’s UK Lotto and then winning £25 on the Premium Bonds too! The lucky couple are the latest UK Euromillions Lottery winners and they walk away with £12,408,000!
UK Lottery jackpot is so last season
For it to take a couple of weeks for a lottery winner to come forward is not uncommon. Often lottery players need time to think, talk to family or maybe even get together as a lottery syndicate to decide how best to handle your new found fame. However, the UK Lottery has one jackpot unclaimed since March and now one can only assume that the winner isn’t aware that they are new found millionaires.
2012 Olympic Issues affect Lotto funding
Today we ask if even more pressure is to be put on the lotto after more issues with funding for the 2012 Olympics. Since the Coalition government came to power they have been seeking ways to slash public spending, and cutting the budget for London 2012 may be one way of clawing back some cash into the public purse. The Lotto good causes fund has already made a huge contribution to London 2012 with millions diverted from other good causes plus exclusive scratchcards and other fundraising for the games.
Double winners for UK Lotto
It’s been another weekend of lottery winners here in the UK, with Fridays Euromillions Lottery jackpot going to a single UK winner and now two winners on Saturday night’s UK Lotto draw is shows that UK lottery players are coming out on top. Last night’s UK Lotto draw was worth £4.6 million and two lucky players matched all the winning numbers, sharing the wealth.
UK skips off with Euromillions prize
All eyes are on England at the moment, hoping the World Cup team can bring home the coveted prize. Well it seems we certainly have the luck at the moment and if last night’s Euromillions draw is anything to go by, it’s in the bag. Yet again a UK Lottery player scoops the Euromillions Lottery jackpot, continuing a run of good luck on the lottery for UK lottery players.
First National Lottery held 450 years ago
A letter has surfaced and is to be sold at auction that proves that the first National Lottery in the UK was held 450 years ago. The document, which is emblazoned with Queen Elizabeth I well known signature shows that the first national lottery in the UK was held in 1566. Tickets for the draw were sold over three years and the jackpot for the lottery was £5,000, an amount that wasn't even paid in cash.
Two Share the Lotto rollover
What a lot of excitement there was this week over the UK Lotto rollover! It’s little surprise when you consider it’s been almost a month since the last National Lottery rollover and lottery players in the UK have not exactly had rich pickings from either this or the Euromillions Lottery. The jackpot was an estimated £6.5 million but lottery fever swept the UK yesterday and that jackpot hit £7.3 million, shared by two lucky lottery players who matched all six winning numbers.
A Lottery win over the rainbow
If you head over to the National Lottery website today to buy lottery tickets for tonight’s rollover, you’ll see there could be a lottery win over the rainbow with their brand new instant win game. Rainbow is the newest game to launch on the National Lottery and with odds of winning lower than one in five and a top prize of £100,000, you might just want to try it out, especially if you’re a fan of instant wins and scratchcards.
Wednesday is D-day for Euromillions winner
Imagine having a winning Euromillions ticket and not finding out you’re a winner until after the deadline to claim. Well that’s exactly what might happen to one Euromillions winner if they don’t come forward by Wednesday. There’s an unclaimed lottery prize for the Euromillions Lottery worth £616,198, despite several appeals by the National Lottery, the UK press and us here at National-Lottery.com the winner has still not come forward but this really is the last call as on Wednesday at 5pm the prize expires.
Consecutive numbers create lottery rollover
A run of consecutive lottery numbers may just have sealed the fate of last night’s National Lottery jackpot as the odd numbers meant no one won the jackpot. Yes it’s a UK Lotto rollover on Wednesday evening and after last night’s £4 million lottery jackpot was not won, Wednesday night’s jackpot is an estimated £7 million and that's sure to create a lot of interest in this week's UK Lotto!
Lottery winner victim of Cumbria killer
A Lottery winner who scooped £2.3 million on the UK Lotto has spoken out about how the win means nothing now that his brother has been gunned down in the Cumbria massacre this week. Readers can’t have missed the leading story in the media this week about the crazed gunman who indiscriminately shot and killed people in the Lake district and one of those gunned down was the lottery winner’s brother.
Voting open for National Lottery awards
Voting is now open for the semi-finals of the National Lottery awards where many projects from around the UK are competing to receive National Lottery grants from the good causes fund. The National Lottery Awards are a way you can make a difference to the way that money for good causes is spent in the UK. They’re an annual search to find the UK’s favourite lottery-funded projects for donations from the National Lottery fund.
Warning over latest lottery scam
Police are giving our warnings in the Avon and Somerset areas of the UK over the latest lottery scam where one pensioner has already lost £7,000. The telephone lottery scam centres round the Spanish Lottery and police are concerned that elderly and vulnerable people could be especially at risk. The scam works in the same ways as many scams that have been aimed at UK Lottery players.
Four Share the UK Lotto
It’s another week of smaller winners on the UK Lotto as the £4.7 million jackpot is shared four ways! It’s the latest in a long line of shared lottery jackpots and it’s making us wonder how jackpot winners must feel when they get, for example, four times less than they imagined they were going to get when they realised they had matched the six winning lottery numbers.
UK players have a lotto luck
It seems that UK lottery players are having a lotto luck right now with some big jackpots being won on a regular basis. It was just a couple of weeks ago that a UK Lottery player scooped £84.4 million on the Euromillions Lottery to become the UK’s biggest ever lottery winner. Last week a European won the £13 million up for grabs but this week it’s swayed back to the UK as one UK lottery player scoops £12.6 million.
Lottery shake up sees contracts lost
It can mean a lot to a village shop to be the only place to be selling lottery tickets for miles, especially in rural regions. Offering lottery tickets for sale can mean keeping your head above water when you run the post office in a tiny hamlet or the petrol station on a little used b road. So the latest lottery shake up will mean a great deal to certain lottery retailers because as many as 175 stores around the UK are to lose their lottery contracts for not performing as well as they could on the sale of lottery tickets.
Lotto winner on the bins
A UK Lotto winner who blew his winnings and was branded a yob has said he wants to go back to his job on the bins and forget the whole thing ever happened. Mikey Carroll is well known in the British press for winning £9.7 million on the UK Lotto and blowing his fortune, earning him the title ‘King of Chavs’. Now he has come forward to say he has reapplied for the £200 a week job he quit after winning the lottery.
Two unclaimed Lotto prizes for June
Last month, several big UK Lotto prizes, including a jackpot share went into the fund for good causes after the winners failed to step forward with a lottery ticket and now the month is almost over and we’re looking ahead and all we can see is two unclaimed Lotto prizes for June. That means it’s time again to start searching for those old lottery tickets and seeing if you are a UK Lotto or Euromillions winner.
Shout out for Euromillions winner
The team at National-Lottery.com are giving a shout out today for a Euromillions Lottery winner that still has not claimed their jackpot. There are just a couple of weeks now until the prize expires on 9th June so it’s time to look for old lottery tickets and check the junk. Just think, in the bottom of a drawer or in an old forgotten jacket might be a scrap of paper worth over £600,000.
World Cup experience with the UK Lotto
The National Lottery are getting into the spirit of the upcoming World Cup by holding a fantastic promotion! If you can scoop the prize you’ll be watching the World Cup in style with a 42” Panasonic Viera television and Blu-Ray home cinema system. All you have to do is play the Football Fortunes online scratchcard at the National Lottery website and you’ll go into a prize draw for your chance to win.
Lottery Heritage fund supports Landscapes project
The National Lottery Heritage fund is to pay to protect and improve ten landscapes around the UK. The areas up for grants are well known and visited spots around the UK and your lottery cash will make a big difference in improving the areas in conjunction with the Landscape Partnership programme.
Will Euromillions beats estimate
It’s not even a week since one lucky UK lottery player walked away with over £80 million, the biggest ever UK lottery prize when the five times rollover Euromillions jackpot was won. The lucky winner must still be reeling in shock but time doesn’t stand still in the lottery world and tonight it’s the Euromillions Lottery draw again. Of course there’s no £80 million on offer but the base jackpot on the Euromillions Lottery is an appealing £12 million and quite often straight after a big rollover the Euromillions beats the estimate as lottery fever drags on for another week.
Last call for unclaimed Lotto jackpot
On Monday 24th May a Lotto jackpot worth over £850,000 will expire and the winner will lose their chance to claim the prize. The unclaimed lottery jackpot was from a draw back in November last year yet despite several appeals for the winner, no one has come forward.The unclaimed lottery prize is worth £851,513 and if unclaimed by Monday 24th May the prize will go into the fund for good causes, plus any interest it has accrued since the draw back in November.
New government new lottery
Remember just a few weeks ago when all the political parties were vying for votes in the General Election? There were all sorts of promises being thrown about, many of which have not been addressed yet but one thing we do remember about the campaigning was how each party was going to deal with Lotto funding for good causes.
Lottery fund to improve town centres
More than £14 million has been earmarked by the Heritage Lottery Fund to improve town centres around the UK. The money will be used to regenerate town centres across the UK which are rundown or suffering from neglect according to a statement from the Heritage Lottery fund released this week.
Record Euromillions winner comes forward
The winner of the £84 million Euromillions Lottery jackpot has come forward to claim the record UK lottery prize according to officials at the National Lottery. No details have yet been released about the winner but lottery officials have been contacted leaving the winner to come forward to get the winning lottery ticket verified and the new record UK lottery prize paid out to the lucky winner.
UK lottery player becomes record Euromillions winner
One UK lottery player last night became the countries biggest ever lottery winner after scooping the five times rollover Euromillions Lottery jackpot. The jackpot hit over £84 million for the draw, and one lucky UK player matched all five winning numbers and the two lucky stars. It’s not yet known who the winner is, or indeed what area the lottery ticket was sold in, we are awaiting news now from National Lottery officials on where the lucky ticket was sold.
Will Euromillions player join the rich list
A quick look at the Financial Times rich list today will tell you that should a UK lottery player win tonight’s £86 million Euromillions rollover they will be projecting straight up the list and become a record UK Lottery winner. Tonight’s draw has rolled over five times and if a UK lottery player scoops the jackpot they would come in 760th on the rich list ahead of some very big celebrity names.
Two share the double lotto rollover
All eyes were on the UK Lotto double rollover last night and with an £11 million jackpot, it’s little wonder players were keen to hear the results. In the event, two shared the double lotto rollover, with each winner collecting over £5.5 million! It’s great news for the winners and as there were £18 million of prizes given away it’s clear to see that there were plenty of smaller winners too.
Spoiled for choice with lottery rollovers
UK Lottery players are spoiled for choice this week with lottery rollovers from both the UK Lotto and Euromillions. Tonight it’s a UK Lotto double rollover and today is your last chance to buy tickets for the £11 million draw then on Friday it’s the turn of the Euromillions Lottery with an estimated £86 million jackpot. Will we see some big UK millionaires this week? It’s all in the numbers of course and how they fall.
UK Lotto sales on a high
UK Lotto sales appear to be on a high this week as the estimated jackpots climb, even before draw day. Tomorrow’s UK Lotto draw is a double rollover and the estimated jackpot has climbed by £1 million since the draw was announced at the weekend from an estimated £10 million to an estimated £11 million jackpot!
No winners create double Lotto rollover
UK Lottery players have certainly been spoiled this weekend with rollovers on both the UK Lotto and Euromillions Lottery and the rollover trend looked set to continue as the Euromillions Lottery rolled over on Friday evening. Well that has certainly come true as no winning tickets matched all the winning numbers in last night’s UK Lotto draw creating a double rollover for Wednesday evening!
Never ending lottery rollovers
It must seem to UK Lottery players that we are stuck in never ending lottery rollovers right now. Last night the Euromillions Lottery jackpot rolled over for the fifth time and tonight it’s the UK Lotto rollover, worth an estimated £7 million. It seems rollovers really are the order of the day, getting UK players hot under the collar about the prospect of such big lottery jackpot prizes.
Lottery Rollovers for the weekend
It looks like lottery rollovers are the order of the weekend as both the Euromillions Lottery and now the UK Lotto produce no winners. We were well aware of the Euromillions Lottery rollover, at an estimated £67 million it’s been very well reported but now, last night’s UK Lotto has also rolled over creating an estimated £7 million bumper jackpot for the weekend.
Would a lotto win change you
We all say it, that if we won the lotto it wouldn’t change us, but would a lotto win really change you? That’s the question we’re asking today as we read about the last big UK Lotto winner. Steve Smith and his wife won £19 million on a triple UK Lotto rollover draw in 2008. The couple became one of the biggest UK Lottery winners but the win hasn’t changed them and Mr Smith in particular still has an eye for a bargain.
Euromillions winners marry in secret
After the publicity that followed becoming the UK’s biggest ever lottery winners, Nigel Page and Justine Haycock could be forgiven for being fed up of all the fuss and maybe that explains why the Euromillions winners have married in secret in a quiet registry office ceremony. This gives them equal shares of the Euromillions Lottery jackpot, which was originally just paid to Nigel Page.
One week for the new Thunderball
There’s just one more week to wait for the new improved Thunderball draw from the UK Lotto as tickets for the new draw go on sale next Sunday. There are several changes being made to the popular draw including a £500,000 jackpot, that’s double the current jackpot! There’s also to be an extra draw, plus bonus prizes for matching the Thunderball.
UK Lotto single winner
After a recent run of shared lottery jackpots created by several jackpots winners, the UK Lotto has seen a single winner for last night’s draw who will walk away with the entire £4.5 million jackpot. Neither Wednesday’s or last Saturday’s draw created a single millionaire, with prize money being split several ways but the Lotto is back to form as this £4.5 million winner will testify.
Winning Lottery ticket a lucky dip
The single winning ticket of the UK Lotto jackpot from 17th April draw was a lucky dip says the winner today. Robert and Susan McIntosh from Aberdeenshire couldn’t believe their luck when they checked their lottery ticket to find they were the sole winners of a £4.4 million lotto jackpot and they didn’t even choose the numbers that won them this multi-million pound jackpot.
Worker misses out on Lotto syndicate win
Gary Davies, a factory worker from South Wales, must be kicking himself now as the only member of a workforce not to be part of the lottery syndicate. The eleven strong lottery syndicate from Swansea has just matched five balls and the bonus ball on the UK Lotto draw and Mr Davies is the only one not in for a share.
Five lucky lottery players
As jackpot shares go, last night’s was a pretty big one as no less than five players matched all six winning numbers to scoop last night’s UK Lotto jackpot. However, with the jackpot at £4.5 million that means the Lotto did not create a single millionaire! Check the Lotto results now to see if you were one of the lucky winners or read on for all the news.
UK Lotto news for the weekend
If you are a keen lottery player then you’ll be eager to hear the results from last night’s Euromillions Lottery draw. It was a double rollover with an estimated £38 million jackpot, but no players matched all the winning numbers, creating a triple rollover next week. If you missed out, don’t worry, you have plenty to play for next week and don’t forget tonight is the UK Lotto draw with a £4.6 million jackpot.
Two midweek Lotto millionaires
It may have just been a standard midweek jackpot but the midweek UK Lotto draw still managed to produce two millionaires! Last night’s UK Lotto draw was worth £2.4 million and two lucky players matched all six winning numbers in the draw, scooping £1.2 million each. Here's all the news and winners details from the draw, check those tickets now to see if you were lucky!
Three Lotto prizes to expire in May
April is almost over already and the summer is well and truly on the way but we have some news today that could make your summer a bit more special. There are no less than three lotto prizes to expire in May and one of them is a UK Lotto jackpot, it’s time to look for those lost lotto tickets and see if you’re the ticketholder of one of these massive unclaimed lottery prizes.
Lottery preparing for Thunderball changes
A few weeks ago we brought you news of how the Thunderball Lottery is changing. Well now the lottery is gearing up for the changes as they come into play in just a couple more weeks. The Thunderball Lottery is one of the subsidiary draws run alongside the UK Lotto and it currently offers a jackpot of £250,000. From May 9th all that is set to change as the jackpot doubles and many more changes also come into play.
Lucky Lotto names
We love the fact that the National Lottery often does fun surveys on lucky lottery statistics. These have varied from lucky towns to lucky house numbers but now they have even compiled a list of lucky lotto names and if you’re called either John or Margaret then make sure you buy lottery tickets this week!
A lottery win and a rollover for the weekend
We’ve had lucky jackpot winners and rollovers this weekend in the UK Lottery world with a mixed bag of results. Friday evening brought a Euromillions double rollover but players of the UK Lotto on Saturday evening were a little luckier. So how did you fare in the weekend of lottery draws? Were you one of the UK's lucky lottery winners?
Tyneside Lotto jackpot still unclaimed
Last week’s UK Lotto triple rollover was certainly an exciting draw but while the whole country was eager to play for the massive rollover jackpot, one Tyneside Lotto jackpot is still unclaimed from last month. The winning ticket matched all six numbers in the UK Lotto draw held on March 27th yet despite several pleas by the National Lottery the jackpot still remains unclaimed.
UK Lotto triple rollover news
Last night was a UK Lotto triple rollover and the jackpot had to be won, even if no players matched all six winning numbers. In the event it didn’t come to that as four lucky players matched all the winning numbers in last night’s UK Lotto draw to share the £16.5 million jackpot.
Jack Duckworth wins the Lotto
Rumours flying around the internet have suggested that Jack Duckworth may win the Lotto in his final storyline for the show. Bill Tarmey has recently decided to quit the show in a shock decision from the veteran actor and now sources have revealed that a lotto win may be the way to do so.
UK Lotto jackpot must be won
I think by now we all know that it’s a triple rollover this Wednesday and that means an estimated jackpot of around £17 million. But did you know the UK Lotto jackpot must be won? If no jackpot winners match all six winning numbers then the £17 million jackpot will roll down to the next division players until a winner is found.
UK Lotto triple rollover
Players from all over the UK were pretty excited on Saturday night to be playing in the £12 million UK Lotto double rollover, yet despite high ticket sales and this bumper jackpot, no players matched all six winning numbers and that means a midweek triple rollover. It's the first ever on a Wednesday and only the fifth triple lottery rollover since the launch of the UK Lotto in 1994!
Last chance for Lotto double rollover
Today is Saturday and that means it's your very last chance to buy lottery tickets for tonight’s UK Lotto double rollover. Excitement has been at fever pitch all week over the £12 million double rollover jackpot and it’s no wonder, it’s the first double rollover of 2010. Last Saturday evening, no lottery tickets matched all six winning numbers in the UK Lotto draw creating a £7 million rollover for Wednesday evening.
Britain has balls for Lotto good causes
We all know how much work the UK Lotto does for good causes up and down the country. A massive £25 million is raised every single week for good causes around the UK through the sale of lottery tickets. Right now the Britain has balls tour is taking place throughout the UK and you have a chance to join in and win a digital DAB radio for doing so.
25 million reasons to play the Lotto
It’s a double UK Lotto rollover and that means there are 25 million reasons to buy lottery tickets this weekend. Last night’s UK Lotto draw produced no jackpot winner and that means the estimated jackpot for Saturday night’s draw is £12 million! Add that to the Friday Euromillions Lottery jackpot of £13 million and that’s 25 million good reasons to play the lotto this weekend.
Lottery win blamed for sex offences
A lottery winner has blamed his win on sex offences he has been imprisoned for. The convicted sex offender admitted running a paedophile ring via mobile phones but blamed winning the UK Lotto for his actions in court. Carl Gardner, 30 from Norwich pleaded guilty to five child sex offences but said it was because he has lost control of his life after winning £50,000 on the UK Lotto.
Lottery winner dies broke
After winning £9 million on the UK Lotto, you’d think that you’d be made for life but a lottery winner who scooped a fortune back in 2005 has died penniless, aged just 58 after his life spiralled out of control. Keith and Louise Gough started living the high-life after their huge lottery win and why not? A happily married couple, they must have thought all their dreams had come true.
UK Lotto rolls to 7 million
Lately, we seem to be bringing you lots of news of shared jackpots on the UK Lotto but not this week as no winners means that the UK Lotto rolls to £7 million! No winning lottery tickets last night means that it’s a UK Lotto rollover, the first one in over a month.
Easter instants at the National Lottery
If you’re looking for something to get you in the mood for Spring and the impending Easter weekend then can we recommend a couple of instant wins we’ve found at the National Lottery this week. There are two seasonal games to be played, both with different ticket costs and prizes, ensuring, as always there’s something for everyone.
Only a fool would miss this Lotto prize
It’s April Fools day but there’s no tricks to be played by the National Lottery, there is however one UK Lotto prize that will expire at 5pm today if it isn’t claimed and only a fool would miss this Lotto prize of £149,559! The unclaimed ticket matched five main balls and the bonus in the 3rd October UK Lotto draw and today is the last chance for the winner to claim.
Euromillions winner remains anonymous
The £39 million winner of last Friday’s Euromillions double rollover has chosen to remain anonymous. National Lottery officials have confirmed that the monster jackpot has been paid into the bank account of the lottery winner who has chosen the ‘no publicity’ route and will now remain a secret.
Euromillions winner comes forward
In a statement from the National Lottery yesterday it was confirmed that the Euromillions Lottery winner has stepped forward to claim the double rollover jackpot from Friday evening. If the win is confirmed the lucky Brit will be the fourth biggest UK Lottery winner of all time, receiving a staggering £39.75 million!
More shares on the UK Lotto
After the excitement of the £40 million Euromillions Lottery draw on Friday night it was understandable that it may spill over onto Saturdays UK Lotto draw. Ticket sales were high and the jackpot met it’s £4.5 million estimated. However it was more shares on the UK Lotto in what seems to be becoming a trend, at least this one made millionaires, three in fact as three lucky players matched all six winning numbers to scoop the £4.5 million jackpot.
Euromillions news and a lottery draw
What an exciting weekend it has been so far, with last night’s Euromillions prize worth an estimated £40 million, things have reached fever pitch. The news is fantastic too, a UK Lottery player wakes up £39 million richer this morning after scooping the entire jackpot. More news about that in a moment, if you weren’t the lucky lottery winner then we do have a UK Lotto draw coming up this evening.
Seller found for UK Lotto
For months now there has been speculation from media groups in the UK about who exactly might buy the UK Lotto. In news released last night, the UK Lotto has been sold to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Fund one of the original frontrunners in the bidding. The £389 million sale price is way over the estimated £300 million the lottery was expected to go for.
Modest dreams for Lottery winners
I guess it’s a glass half full or half empty moment if you were one of the jackpot winners on last night’s UK Lotto draw. Four winners shared the £2.2 million jackpot so any dreams they might have had about big houses in the country and many foreign holidays might have needed to be put on hold once the results was released.
Lotto jackpot goes to charity
After several appeals and pleas for the winner to come forward a UK Lotto jackpot goes to charity as the 180 deadline runs out for them to come forward and claim the prize. The jackpot dates back from September last year and was worth a staggering £3.6 million to the winner, however despite several pleas, no winner has been found and as the deadline has now passed the entire jackpot goes to good causes.
Thunderball doubles the jackpot
Thunderball is one of the most popular UK Lotto draws and with a jackpot of £250,000 it’s little wonder. However, we have some fantastic news today that the Thunderball is to double the jackpot up to £500,000 from 9th May, 2010. It’s not just the jackpot increasing either, with more draws and more chances to win, you’d be mad not to find out about the all-new UK Lotto Thunderball draw.
Last Call for Lotto jackpot
Despite several appeals in the media – including on these very pages – a £3.6 million UK Lotto prize will expire at 5pm today if the winning ticketholder does not come forward. The jackpot prize has been outstanding since September 23rd 2009 and despite many appeals for the winner to come forward, no one has yet appeared with the winning ticket.
Five Share the UK Lotto
It’s quite possible that the massive Euromillions rollover jackpot kept players away from the UK Lotto draw last night and that might explain why the £4.6 million estimated jackpot only reached £3.9 million. Players however did seem to have a lotto luck as five players matched all the winning numbers. That means there were no millionaires created in last night’s UK Lotto draw with each player winning £791,583 each.
Euromillions rollover day
It’s the Euromillions rollover day and with £26 million up for grabs it’s one day you won’t want to miss. Last weekend the Euromillions Lottery produced no winners and that means that this weekend’s jackpot is a massive £26 million! UK Players also have the chance to play for the £1 million Millionaires Raffle and that’s just one more million good reasons to play.
UK Lotto results and a rollover
Last night was the midweek UK National Lottery draw and the jackpot was an estimated £2.4 million. In the event, the jackpot was pushed higher than estimated and came in as £2,969,627 and one lucky lottery player matched all six winning numbers to scoop the entire jackpot.
Divorce then lotto win for bus driver
A bus driver and his new partner are celebrating this week after winning the UK Lotto just hours after his divorce was finalised. Kevin Halstead won £2.3 million on the UK Lotto just hours after his divorce was finalised, meaning he and his new partner can keep the lot.
Two Share the UK Lotto
Straight off the back of the Euromillions Lottery rollover on Friday evening was the UK Lotto draw for Saturday, but there was no rollover there as two lucky players shared the UK Lotto jackpot of £4.6 million. That gives each lucky lottery winner £2.3 million each, a very nice share we’re sure you’d agree.
Lottery under criticism for plans
Plans put forward by the UK Lotto to introduce a bill payment plan into its terminals has come under fire this weekend from Paypoint. The plans are to introduce a similar plan to Paypoint to its lottery terminals but the Paypoint company has said that the service could have a detrimental effect on more vulnerable customers.
New ad campaign from UK Lotto
Advertisement campaigns from the National Lottery tend to be both memorable and spectacular with some of the best and most memorable taglines ever and now the UK Lotto is hoping that the same tactic will work on their brand new ad campaign, for scratchcards and instant win games. The first of the ads will appear on our television sets on Sunday with the tagline ‘put some PLAY in your day’.
One millionaire for the UK Lotto
If you had tickets in the midweek UK Lotto draw then there’s no doubt you’ll be keen to check the lotto results this morning and see if you are a lottery millionaire. The draw went off without event and the jackpot was worth £2.3 million. Just one millionaire was created as one player matched all six winning numbers and walked away with the jackpot.
Olympic Lottery money may not be returned
The chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, John Armitt has said this week that the Olympic fund cannot guarantee that all money taking from National Lottery good causes fund would be returned to the pot as originally promised.
Lotto Jackpot about to expire
Unclaimed prizes on the UK Lotto are thankfully rare but this month there are two unclaimed lottery prizes that are about to expire and one of those is a £3 million jackpot! It’s hard to believe that someone could have overlooked a lottery prize of that magnitude but it’s happened and if it isn’t claimed by March 22nd the whole prize and all the interest it has accrued will go into the fund for good causes.
Big Share on Lotto rollover
For the first time in ages last night, we saw the UK Lotto jackpot at a £7 million high. A lotto rollover pushed the jackpot up and it actually looked like one player may win a large chunk of cash but in the event there was a big share on the lotto rollover with four players sharing the £7.2 million jackpot.
Euromillions jackpot won
Yesterday we brought you news of all the exciting lottery rollover draws of the weekend, as both the Euromillions Lottery and UK National Lottery produced no winners in the last draw. Last night it was the turn of the Euromillions Lottery and the jackpot has been won by a single player from Europe, making them over £40 million richer!
A Lotto rollovers
It’s the weekend finally and it really is getting off to a bang with a lotto rollovers. Both the Euromillions and the UK Lotto see rollover draws this weekend sending the whole country into lottery frenzy. Tonight’s Euromillions Lottery has a £40 million rollover jackpot up for grabs and then tomorrow it’s the turn of the UK Lotto, that one rolled over in the week and is worth an estimated £7.5 million!
Lotto jackpot to expire
Unclaimed prizes on the UK Lotto are thankfully rare, yet this month sees two unclaimed lottery prizes expire if the winning players do not come forward. Now unclaimed prizes for smaller division prizes are more common but one of this month’s unclaimed prizes is a lotto jackpot about to expire.
Another Lotto syndicate win
If rumours are to be believed then a lotto syndicate from Kidderminster has scooped a £4.8 million UK Lotto prize. The winners have opted for no publicity, hence the hush, hush nature of the news. However rumour has it that they are a pub syndicate made up of four members, and that makes a tidy £1.2 million each!
Lotto winners give cleaner home
The UK’s biggest lottery winners, Nigel Page and Justine Laycock are starting to enjoy their Euromillions Lottery win now, having just moved into a £4 million eco mansion. And in a random act of generosity they have given their old cleaner their £400,000 home.
Weekend Lottery winners
It’s been an exciting weekend for UK lottery players, with the Euromillions rollover on Friday night and then the UK National Lottery on Saturday, players were inevitably going to be excited. While the UK Lotto saw one winner, the Euromillions saw yet another rollover, pushing next week’s estimated jackpot up to £40 million.
Lucky 13 for Midlands Syndicate
A Lottery syndicate from the Midlands got lucky last week on number 13 when their numbers came up on the UK Lotto. The syndicate of thirteen workers from near Tamworth in the Midlands won over £80,000 on the UK Lotto when their numbers came up on February 13th proving that number thirteen may not be so lucky after all.
Branson pulls out of lottery deal
In a move sure to get other bidders worrying, Richard Branson has pulled out of the planned deal to buy shares in Camelot, the UK Lotto firm. The tycoon was part of a consortium and has now withdrawn from the auction of Camelot after it declined to underwrite costs associated with the bid.
Sunday Mirror prints wrong lottery numbers
As a popular lottery portal we feel that it is our responsibility to ensure that we bring you the most current and up to date news and lottery results. Mistakes do happen but thankfully they are very rare and that’s why we quickly picked up on an error in last week’s Sunday Mirror where the wrong lottery numbers were printed for the UK Lottery draw held on last weeks Saturday evening.
Inventor sues National Lottery
An Inventor from Halifax is suing National Lottery operator Camelot over a scratchcard game the inventor claims is based on his own idea. The inventor, Henry Michael Pattison is suing the National Lottery for copyright infringement over a series of scratchcards based on a dice game.
Buy Lotto tickets and pay the bills
Camelot, the National Lottery operator has approached Santander, the Co-operative bank and the Post Office to see if it is possible to use lottery terminals to pay bills and top up mobile phones in addition to lottery ticket sales. For now Camelot has applied for permission and now it’s just left up to the regulator to see whether these propsals to lottery terminals fall within the current regulations.
Fears of Spanish Euromillions winner
Last week we saw one of the biggest ever Euromillions Lottery jackpot at £112 million. Shared by two lucky players we couldn’t wait to tell you about the British couple who became the UK’s biggest ever lottery winners at £56.5 million but the other winning ticket is from Spain and it’s said that the lottery winners are scared to come forward and identify themselves.
Deal or no Deal at the National Lottery
If you love Deal or no Deal with Noel Edmonds and you’re a fan of scratchcards and instant wins then you are sure to love the brand new instant win at the National Lottery website. It’s Deal or no Deal and for £2 a play you could be walking away with the £100,000 top prize.
UK Euromillions winner celebrates
At £113 million, it was one of the biggest Euromillions jackpots ever seen, certainly the biggest of the year and it’s little wonder that the whole of the UK and much of Europe were out in their droves to buy tickets for their chance to be a record Euromillions winner.
UK Lotto Jackpot win about to expire
In all the excitement of the weekend lottery activity, all eyes have been on the monster Euromillions Lottery jackpot. However there is one UK Lotto jackpot win about to expire and it’s worth paying attention as the unclaimed prize is worth a staggering £3,681,197 and the ticketholder now has just one month to claim.
Euromillions Mega Rollover tomorrow
Two ticketholders matched all the winning numbers in last night UK Lotto draw, winning £2.2 million each but that pales into insignificance when you consider that the Euromillions mega rollover draw is tomorrow evening and the estimated rollover jackpot is a staggering £113 million.
Lotto winner back on the dole
Think back to 2002 when lotto winner Michael Carroll turned up to collect his £9.7 million cheque wearing an electronic tag. The whole country was in uproar as this self styled chav walked away with one of the biggest prize ever seen at the time. It seems a fool and his money are easily parted however as the lotto winner is now back on the dole after squandering the whole lot in eight years.
National Lottery Lucky Jobs
Camelot have released a National Lottery lucky jobs list, showing which professions are most likely to strike it rich on the UK Lotto. Topping the bill is builders making them the luckiest profession of all lottery players in the UK. Here's the rest of the lucky professions, see if you make the National Lottery lucky jobs list.
Warm up with the midweek Lotto
We’re all eager to see the results of the Euromillions Mega Jackpot at the weekend but that’s still a couple of days ago. Why not warm up for the event with the midweek Lotto? Today is your last chance to buy lotto tickets as the draw is this evening and you could end up being an instant millionaire like the two winners who shared Saturdays jackpot.
Lotto win is criminal
Often in the news we hear stories about convicted criminals winning prizes in the UK Lotto and we often wonder why these stories are such a big deal. Are people suggesting that people with criminal pasts shouldn’t be allowed to play lotto games? I guess the chief of Karma would be the one you would need to complain to in that situation and now you’ll have more cause to complain as a convicted criminal wins £250,000 on a UK Lotto scratchcard.
Unclaimed Millionaire Raffle prize
Every week we bring stories of unclaimed lotto prizes and now with the Millionaire Raffle playing alongside the Euromillions Lottery – guaranteeing a UK millionaire every single week – we already have a £1 million Millionaire Raffle prize unclaimed. It really is so important to check those raffle numbers when you check your Euromillions results each week as one UK player really is guaranteed to win £1 million, every single week.
Time running out for UK Lotto winner
Were you trying to match all the winning numbers in last night’s UK Lotto draw? Yes and no doubt players were all over the UK were hoping to be the lucky players to get that elusive jackpot. But time is running out for one lotto winner who has already matched five main balls and the bonus ball but has not yet claimed their prize.
Lottery used as election tool
The Conservative government have promised to reform the UK Lotto if they get into power in the next general election proving nothing is above being used as an election tool. Jeremy Hunt, the Conservative party spokesmen on culture laid out plans this week to reform the UK Lotto on a visit to Edinburgh.
Luckiest Lottery Towns
Lottery players looking to increase their chances of a big prize might find that moving house increases their chances as the UK National Lottery release a list of the luckiest lottery towns in the UK. Ilford in Essex come out on top and the list shows that certain places in the UK certainly have a lotto luck.
Money Money Money at the National Lottery
If you play the lottery online and you’re a fan of the instant wins at the National Lottery website then we have news of a brand new game where you can win up to £100,000! It’s Money Money Money at the National Lottery and with plays at just £2 a go, there’s no doubt it’s going to be one of the more popular games available to play online. There are three great chances to win and with a £100,000 jackpot there really is everything to play for.
Birthday numbers galore in the UK Lotto
With the third weekend single rollover on the bounce interest has been high in the UK Lotto so when this weekends draw pulled six numbers between 1 and 30 in the draw it was no surprise to see three winners share the jackpot. Birthday numbers are a common choice to lottery players and they’ve been very lucky for three lottery players who are now celebrating after sharing the £5.9 million rollover jackpot.
Rollup for the Lotto rollover
In case you needed a final reminder, tonight it’s a UK Lotto rollover with an estimated £7 million jackpot on offer and that’s not all there is to look forward to either as after last night’s Euromillions Lottery draw that one is on the roll too.
Giant Lottery grant for Giants Causeway
One of Northern Irelands most popular tourist attractions the Giants Causeway is to get a giant boost from the UK Lottery good causes fund in the form of £3 million of lottery money from the Lottery Heritage Fund.
Britain and France share Euromillions jackpot
It was the most exciting lottery draw to take place this year, a triple rollover with £52 million up for grabs. The excitement knocked the UK Lotto rollover into the shade and lottery fever took hold all over Europe as players bought those lucky lottery tickets in the hope of becoming the next big Euromillions winner. The draw went off without a hitch but it won’t be another rollover as two tickets, one from Britain and one from France share the Euromillions jackpot.
Big Share on UK Lotto Rollover
It was an exciting night and many players were vying to be the next UK Lotto multi-millionaire after a rollover pushed the jackpot up to £7 million. But in the event any player who matched all six winning numbers would have a lot less than they’d imagined as the jackpot was shared by no less then five winning ticket holders.
Unclaimed Euromillions Jackpot claimed
Over the last couple of weeks, we at National-Lottery.com have spent a lot of time giving out little reminders about unclaimed jackpots. Time is running out for many big jackpots won and any unclaimed prizes go back into the fund for good causes when time runs out. For a change, today we have some good news for you and that’s because one unclaimed Euromillions Lottery jackpot has been snapped up.
Yet another UK Lotto rollover
Things got very exciting round here last weekend when we realised that no winner in the Euromillions Lottery meant a £51 million rollover, so much so that we reported it in our lottery news page. However, Euromillions Lottery rollovers are quite common and we can go weeks without seeing a UK Lotto rollover. Right now though, they seem to be like buses as two come along together and we see the second weekend with a UK Lotto rollover.
National Lottery awards 2010
It’s the start of a brand new year and that of course means a new round of National Lottery awards for good causes around the UK. The National Lottery awards 2010 launch this week and the search is on to find the most worthy good causes around the UK to invest money from the sale of lottery tickets into.
Big Lotto win for Tyneside syndicate
A Tyneside lottery syndicate are having an extra long New Years celebration after scooping a UK Lotto win worth over £10 million on December 30th. The six strong syndicate couldn’t have got the New Year off to a bigger bang and are now celebrating each being £1.7 million richer.
East end call for Lottery Winner
Here at National-Lottery.com we are putting out a call for an East End Euromillions Lottery winner who is sitting on a massive quarter million pound jackpot. The unclaimed lottery prize will expire in nine days and this really is the last chance to dig through those old pockets and step forward.
Two players share the Lotto rollover
It’s been an exciting weekend with rollovers on both the UK National Lottery and Euromillions Lottery. With no winners the Euromillions Lottery rolls again but two share the double lotto rollover each collecting almost £4 million in the draw. Here are all the details and the news about last night's UK Lotto rollover.
Lottery winner looks a million dollars
One lucky UK Lotto winner is looking a million dollars, or even a million pounds this week after posing in a dress made of £20 bank notes. The fashion student won £2.5 million on the UK Lotto last year and the win has inspired her to make a silk ball gown made with £20 notes.
A Lotto New Years resolutions
It’s the start of a New Year and a time for resolutions and making plans for the following year and judging by the amount of unclaimed lottery prizes carrying over from 2009 the most popular UK resolution should be to take even better care of lottery tickets once they are purchased.
Two Lotto Jackpots unclaimed
It’s hard to believe but in the list of unclaimed lotto prizes from the National Lottery there are two lotto jackpots unclaimed. Both jackpot prizes are life changing amounts of cash and players only have a limited time to claim. The two lotto jackpots, both worth over £3 million each are just two of the unclaimed lottery prizes into the New Year. Although the largest they are by no means the only unclaimed prizes, three of which expire during January.
Development in Lottery sale
We promised to keep you up with developments when the news first broke last year and now into the New Year it looks like things may finally be happening in the sale of the UK Lotto company Camelot. There’s been speculation for a long time but it finally looks as though we will soon be finding out who the new shareholders of Camelot are to be.
A Lotto money can’t buy everything
One lottery winner is realizing that money doesn’t buy everything. Mark Gardiner won half a share of a £22.6 million UK Lotto jackpot back in 1995 when the lottery first started but now he has a seriously ill nephew in Mexico and even that amount of money cannot help him.
Are you already a Lotto winner
Many players were vying last night to win that massive double rollover jackpot on the UK National Lottery but with all the unclaimed prizes showing on the National Lottery website maybe players should actually just be spending a little longer checking lottery tickets they have already purchased. As the New Year begins, we at National Lottery are astounded at the amount of unclaimed prizes so here are some of the unclaimed prizes of 2009 to serve as a little reminder.
Is winning the lotto a resolution
A few days ago while in the Christmas Sales, one lady was heard to say to another that winning the UK Lottery was to be her New Year’s resolution. Now it’s nice to wish and hope but does hoping you win the lottery a sensible resolution to make?
Camelot to be sold in New Year
It has dominated the lottery news over the last year and still there is no resolution in sight and we still do not know if Camelot is to be sold in the New Year. The UK lottery company isn’t struggling at all but the main shareholders who are made up of players such as Cadbury’s have regularly been in the news this year with stories about hostile takeovers featuring in our news and of course if the main shareholders are struggling financially then it goes without saying that Camelot – or at least major shares in the company - are likely to be sold in the New Year.
Massive UK Lotto jackpot still unclaimed
Forget the double lotto rollover this week, in fact forget buying lottery tickets at all because what you should be doing is checking old lottery tickets. This is because a massive UK Lotto prize of £3.7 million is still unclaimed and someone out there is holding the winning lottery ticket, even if they don’t know so yet.
Christmas Lottery rollovers
With £13 million up for grabs and the draw falling on Christmas Day there was a lot of excitement about last week’s Euromillions Lottery but there was no Christmas Day Euromillions winner. This means that New Years Day will be a rollover worth a massive £25 million! There was also no winner in the Boxing Day UK Lotto single rollover draw making double Christmas Lottery rollovers across the board.
Happy Christmas from National-Lottery
The news has been delivered, you now know all the details of the Christmas lotto draws, all of our writers are on their festive breaks and that just leaves me to wish you all a Happy Christmas from National-Lottery.com.
Don’t forget your lotto tickets
With all the rush of Christmas, last minute shopping and peeling sprouts can we just remind you not to forget to buy your lotto tickets for the lotto draws which are continuing as normal over the festive period. Tonight’s it’s the UK National Lottery draw and over the weekend we have a Euromillions and UK Lotto draw, all draws which could be easily overlooked in the mad rush of Christmas.
Lottery Winners son on drugs charge
It’s not really the start to the festive season one lotto winning family would have hoped for as the son of a £14 million National Lottery winner has been charged with drug dealing after large amounts of cannabis were found at his home. Christopher Graham should have been set for life after being giving £1 million of his fathers fortune but now he is facing jail.
Elderly lose savings in Lottery scam
We have more news of a lottery scam that has targeted the elderly and meant they have lost their life savings. The new Jamaican based lottery scam has seen many people in the UK lost thousands of pounds according to the Office of Fair trading recently. Originally a scam running in the US, costing residents millions this scam has now made its way to us in the UK and prewarned is forearmed so here are the details.
Christmas Lotto opening
Christmas is just around the corner now and with Christmas falling at the weekend there is lots of concern about what is happening with the lottery draws. Well fear not as it’s business as usual over at the National Lottery for the whole of the festive period which means you have absolutely no need to worry.
Euromillions winners eye up Robert Plant mansion
UK’s biggest lottery winners, a couple who won one half of the £91 million Euromillions jackpot a few weeks ago have been house hunting but it’s not the conventional type that we might do. In fact the lucky Euromillions winners have been to view Robert Plant’s old pad, a mansion just a few miles from their current abode. And the asking price at under £5 million is well within their lottery winning budget.
Fifteen years of the Heritage Lottery Fund
Young filmmakers in the North East of England have put together a film featuring all of the North East’s finest heritage success stories. The film called ‘Fifteen’ portrays a project for every one of the fifteen years since the launch of the UK Lotto and each of the years that the Heritage Lottery Fund has been funding ventures in the area.
Check pockets for unclaimed Euromillions prize
It’s time to check all those forgotten pockets again for an unclaimed Euromillions Lottery prize, this time in the North Devon area. The winning ticket matched all five main balls on the Euromillions Lottery draw held on Friday November 20th and the tickets owner has a cool £103,310 waiting for him or her at the National Lottery offices.
Lotto win confirmed on Facebook
A syndicate head let syndicate members know they had won the lottery by posting it on his Facebook status. Syndicate members were in for a shock when they logged on to see the status message read "We've won £2,625,215 on the Lotto. This is not a joke. Please call me, anyone who is in the syndicate, as soon as possible." The group are now in receipt of the £2.6 million win and Facebook is back in the news.
Unclaimed Lotto prize in Bradford
Someone’s Christmas could be off to a flying start as the National Lottery appeals for the holder of an unclaimed lottery ticket from the Bradford are of the UK to come forward. The winning ticket is worth £100,000, an amount sure to put a smile on someone’s face for Christmas.
How lucky are your Euromillions numbers?
We all have our own ways of picking our Euromillions lottery numbers. Some people use birthdays, some have their own lucky numbers, others use number generators and some even leave it up to the fickle finger of fate. A whole industry has grown around predicting the next winning numbers using everything from iPhone applications to astronomy and even psychics have jumped on the bandwagon to get inspiration from 'the other side' but just how lucky are your Euromillions numbers for the National Lottery?
Welsh projects benefit from National Lottery
Recently a Welsh couple scooped a huge £45 million on the Euro Millions but they are not the only people from Wales that have benefited from the lottery over the past 15 years. Many Welsh projects benefit from National Lottery funding and since the first balls were drawn in 1994 over £1 billion has been awarded to good causes in Wales.
National Lottery numbers due out
If you are an avid player of the National Lottery then you may well be aware of the most popular draw numbers, which have been drawn the least and the National Lottery numbers due out because they haven’t appeared in a draw for some time. However, for those of you who don’t spend time looking at the statistics and frequency of numbers for the UK Lotto, why not use this piece to pick you next six numbers?
Large unclaimed National Lottery prizes
When it comes to winning the National Lottery, be it the UK Lotto or Euromillions, surely you would be keen to claim your money as soon as possible. However there are still quite a few large unclaimed National Lottery prizes that remain sitting in the bank of Camelot until their owners come forward. Whilst the majority of the unclaimed winnings are under £100,000 there is one millionaire claimant still to step forward!
Two share first festive rollover
Yesterday was the draw for the first rollover jackpot on the National Lottery in the run up to Christmas and two shared the first festive rollover making them £3,786,303 richer! A couple of families, if not more, will be having a very merry Christmas this year thanks to the National Lottery and we can only imagine how big their Xmas tree and pile of pressies will be!
Festive rollover for National Lottery
Christmas will soon be upon us and what better way to start the run up to the big day than a festive rollover for the National Lottery. People up and down the country are counting the pennies and bargain hunting for Christmas presents but how great would it be to bag a National Lottery rollover jackpot at the beginning of December and not have to scrimp and save!
Fake lotteries cost the UK
We have all received those supposed National Lottery emails telling us we have won life changing amounts of money in lotteries we have never entered and the majority of us just delete those emails as the junk that they are. It would appear however that there are a lot number of people out there that actually fall for these cons and end up losing a whole heap of money, in fact it has being announced today that fake lotteries cost the UK £260 million each year.
National Lottery scratchcard error
Sometimes you read a story in the press and think "that would make a good film", you know the kind of story where some random act changes your life forever, when that big blue finger of fate does not just point to you but bashes you round the head several times. Today we want to share such a story with you, the story about how a National Lottery scratchcard error made a millionaire.
Euromillions prize quirks
Friday night saw the National Lottery Euromillions rollover making next weeks’ jackpot an estimated £26,000,000 for the draw on 4th December. Checking through the prizes for each possible win on the last nights results we noticed a couple of Euromillions prize quirks as some of the usually lower prizes took home more cash than the higher ones.
Millom National Lottery winner
Brenda Pugh is a pensioner celebrating £850,000 National Lottery win in last weeks Wednesday nights draw. Mrs Pugh, the Millom National Lottery winner, was one of eight lucky winners who split a rollover jackpot of £6,804,104. Mrs Pugh has being celebrating in her Holborn Hill home since details of the win emerged.
Lucky numbers for 8 National Lottery winners
The lucky numbers for 8 National Lottery winners from Wednesdays draw were all under the number 30 which proves that anniversaries, birthdays and other special dates can prove to be lucky when picking your numbers for a UK Lotto draw. Or is it unlucky? After all when checking your lottery numbers and seeing all six have been drawn aren’t you expecting to then be a millionaire?
National Lottery tickets as gifts
When it comes to buying a gift for the person who you feel has everything, where do you go for ideas? There have been occasions where you may be tempted to give National Lottery tickets as gifts and whilst this is a superb idea, always remember that anyone you are passing the tickets to does have to be over the age of 16.
National Lottery ticket sales on the rise
At times like these, when we are fighting a recession, struggling for cash and dreading the fast approaching festive season we all turn to our favourite games hoping the big blue finger of fate will point at us and solve all of our financial worries. National Lottery ticket sales are on the rise and in the first half of this year Camelot have seen an increase in ticket sales of 2.7% meaning they have raised a whopping £757.2 million for good causes.
Richard Branson bids for Camelot
Ever since the National Lottery launched back in 1994 Virgin Boss Sir Richard Branson has been trying to get his hands on the license. Twice in the past he has bid for the franchise but both times has lost out to Camelot. Four years ago he vowed never to contest another National Lottery bid but as we know he is not a man to accept defeat lightly and now it looks like he may just get what he always wanted as Richard Branson bids for Camelot.
Tears or smiles for National Lottery winners?
A recent survey of 30 National Lottery jackpot winner revealed that a big percentage have had nothing but misery since scooping their life changing amounts of money. So is it tears of smiles for National Lottery winners or have the people conducting the survey simply picked the wrong people to talk to? The Sunday Express reporter, Julie Hartley-Brewer, uses figures from a survey of 30 of National Lottery winners, some of the biggest jackpots won in the UK.
Jackpot rolls over for National Lottery
Last nights’ draw for the National Lottery failed to find a jackpot winner which means that jackpot for Wednesdays draw is going to be approximately £7 million! With the news that the jackpot rollsover for the National Lottery comes yet another big jackpot prize up for grabs from the UK Lotto. With many players using birthdays as their numbers, it is often found that rollovers occur when at least half of the numbers drawn are over the number 31.
Halloween jackpot from the National Lottery
Back on 31st October a massive jackpot for the National Lottery was won by a single winner. Up until the 18th November the winner had not come forward to claim the Halloween jackpot from the National Lottery. The Independent ran a story on that day and then low and behold the big jackpot of £3,204,588 was claimed.
National Lottery Millionaires
Can you remember what you were doing 15 years ago yesterday? Probably not. But what if we told you that 15 years ago yesterday the National Lottery launched. You probably now remember that just like myself you were sitting in front of the television grasping that little pink ticket expecting to land six balls and see your life change forever. Like us you are probably still waiting to order your Ferrari but its reassuring to see there are 2300 National Lottery millionaires.
National Lottery Euromillions scam
What would you do if you received a letter or an email telling you that you had won a small fortune? Would you be tempted to reply? Just on the off chance it was genuine. Luckily one Coventry granddad had a lot more sense and realised this was just one of the latest in a long line of National Lottery Euromillions scams.
Unsung heroes of the National Lottery
< To mark the 15th anniversary of the UK’s National Lottery a list of the top 50 unsung heroes has been drawn up and the number one spot was awarded to Michael Faraday, the man who discovered electromagnetic induction in 1831. Other names in the top 50 include artist Banksy, singer Midge Ure and even a fictional character from BlackAdder, Baldrick. However the unsung heroes of the National Lottery are the people who buy the tickets according to Sir Matthew Pinsent, Olympic rowing champion.
Lottery prize unclaimed in Ireland
A major lottery prize remains unclaimed in Northern Ireland as the National Lottery reveals that Irish players are among the most forgetful in the UK when it comes to claiming winning lottery tickets. The prize, worth £149,000 was sold in the County Tyrone area of Ireland and time is running out for the lucky lottery player to claim.
Happy Birthday UK Lotto
We’ve been writing about UK Lottery birthday celebrations for almost a month now and after what must have been the longest party in history it’s time to say Happy Birthday UK Lotto as it finally reaches its fifteenth birthday. It’s hard to imagine life before the lottery now, but think back fifteen years and the idea seemed both unique and amazing.
Another Rollover and a Millionaire with the Euromillions
The first Euromillions Lottery draw after the £90 million rollover went off without any problems last night, a lottery that despite not having any winning tickets, still created one UK Millionaire. That’s because the first Millionaire Raffle was drawn which means that every week one UK millionaire will be created even if the jackpot rolls over.
Two share the double rollover
The last couple of weeks it’s been nothing but bumper jackpots and excitement in both the Euromillions and the UK Lotto. With a £91 million jackpot on the Euromillions and two double lotto rollovers in as many weeks it’s no wonder the whole nation is going lotto mad. A triple rollover for the National Lottery is not to be however as two lucky winners shared the double rollover on Wednesday, netting them over £5 million each!
52 millionaires a year with Millionaire Raffle
With all the furore over the Euromillions Lottery winner it’s easy to forget what else is happening in this European Lottery, for instant the Millionaire Raffle starting this weekend which promises to create a UK millionaire every single week. The price of Euromillions Lottery tickets has now risen to £2 and with that rise comes the brand new Millionaire Raffle, available only to UK players and so guaranteed to create 52 UK millionaires every single week.
Lottery winner makes the rich list
News has finally reached the world about who exactly won the massive £91 million Euromillions Lottery on Friday evening. One ticket belonged to a lottery syndicate from Liverpool, the other a couple from Newport in South Wales and it’s these lottery winners who will make the rich list, the biggest every lottery win by a single player in the UK making them as rich as the DJ Chris Evans.
Another double lotto rollover
Just last week we saw a UK Lotto double rollover of £12 million up for grabs and now after all the furore of the massive Euromillions jackpot the UK lotto has quietly rolled over twice yet again making Wednesdays draw worth a massive £11 million in the third double UK Lotto rollover of the year.
Britons become Biggest UK Lottery winners
Two Britons have become the UK’s biggest lottery winners after sharing last night’s Euromillions Lottery jackpot. The jackpot had rolled over a staggering five times to reach £91 million and the two winning tickets were both sold in the UK. If the tickets do not belong to a syndicate then it will be the biggest UK lottery jackpot won by a single player, twice over.
What a Lotto difference fifteen years make
If you have been playing the UK Lotto since the start then you cannot fail after fifteen years to be amazed at how many millionaires have been created and just how much lottery money has gone to charity. The National Lottery celebrates its fifteen birthday this week and as part of that we take a look at just how many millionaires have been created and just how much money has been raised for good causes in the UK.
Lottery couple harassed
A couple who won almost £4 million on the UK Lotto are being harassed by neighbours to leave their £65 a week council house. When the story broke a few weeks ago that the couple - who won £3.9 million on the UK Lotto on May 17th last year – intended to stay in their council house we covered it here on National Lottery and now there have been complaints about the couple and the property they are living in.
Camelot bosses may sell-out
After much chin wagging over the last ten months, Camelot – who run the UK Lotto – are considering a sell out, which would lead to the lottery being floated on the stock market within the next three years. The deal is being looked at closely by some elite private equity firms who may consider teaming up with the Camelot management to run the lottery for the ten year licence which is to be granted next year.
Four share the double Lotto rollover
It was the first double rollover seen in the UK Lotto since March so it’s been a while since this amount of cash was available to UK Players and the £12.8 million jackpot ensured that everyone was playing. In the event the wealth was shared as four lucky UK Lottery players chose all six winning numbers to share the jackpot and walk away with £3.2 million each.
UK Lotto double rollover
It’s rollovers all around this weekend and as both UK Lotto draws offering massive rollover jackpots. We must now all be aware that the Euromillions Lottery has rolled over again and is now worth £71 million but it’s also a UK Lotto double rollover – an event that doesn’t happen too often! In fact the last time the UK Lotto saw a double rollover was back in March so at £12 million for tomorrow night’s draw it’s well worth grabbing a couple of tickets for.
Lotto win makes you happier
It seems like a bit of a non story really, something so obvious you wouldn’t need a survey to tell you the answer but nevertheless a Mori poll of UK Lotto winners has shown that a lotto win makes you happier. Personally we aren’t at all surprised at this news, of course becoming an instant millionaire makes you happier, who wouldn’t be happy at the thought of lifelong financial security?
Sale of the National Lottery
The National Lottery is a private company in the UK which is operated by Camelot and owned by five equal shareholders but four of the five shareholders are putting their portion of the company up for sale. So what will the sale of the National Lottery mean to the average player who buys tickets?
Increase your chances of winning the National Lottery
If you play the National Lottery you will understand that your chance of winning the jackpot are slim, but the huge sums of money to be won make it a chance worth taking. But if you want to increase your chances of winning the National Lottery your best bet is to join or start a lottery syndicate.
Yet another Rollover for Euromillions
UK Players trying to scoop that £54 million Euromillions lottery jackpot on Friday night were disappointed because despite high ticket sales created by the triple rollover, no lottery tickets for the draw matched all the winning numbers and that means another rollover for the Euromillions Lottery.
5 Million for families from Big Lottery Fund
The Big Lottery Fund, part of the National Lottery funds for good causes has just announced that it is to invest £5 million in helping families cope with the after effects of the UK recession, helping communities back onto their feet after the onslaught. The cash, which will go to existing grant holders will help working with people and communities in the most need due to the recession.
One more Lotto millionaire created
Yesterday was Wednesday and that of course is UK Lotto day, the draw went off as normal and the jackpot was just over £2 million. The great news is that one lucky ticket holder scooped the lot creating one more millionaire in the UK before the lotto’s fifteenth birthday. The jackpot wasn’t great but we’re sure the single winner won’t be complaining at becoming an instant lotto millionaire.
Millionaires gather to celebrate Lotto
All over the country for the last couple of weeks lotto millionaires have been coming together for events organised to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the National Lottery. Last weekend a group of winners, including syndicate members and scratchcard winners gathered together on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border to celebrate their good fortune and 15 years of the UK Lotto.
Millionaires toast Lotto anniversary
Everyone in the land must now know that the UK Lotto is about to celebrate its fifteenth anniversary and up and down the country events have been held by the lotto to allow millionaires to toast the lotto anniversary. This weekend it’s been the North East event, held at the Sage, Gateshead event where one Jarrow couple have come together with several other lottery millionaires to celebrate.
Easy to see why players opt for Euromillions
With UK Lotto jackpots falling to an all time low it’s easy to see why lottery players are opting for the Euromillions lottery instead. This weekend there’s an estimated £40 million up for grabs in the Euromillions Lottery while winners of the midweek UK Lotto scraped a half a million due to four winners sharing a jackpot that was only a little over £2 million.
Lotto Grants for open spaces
Creating green spaces is a big priority for the Parks for People programme and they have been looking for lottery funding to transform parks and green spaces around the UK. Well today the Parks for People Programme received some fantastic news from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery fund by being awarded a massive £18 million grant to update six green spaces around the UK.
Camelot Chief hits the jackpot
While the party poppers are still being pulled for the UK Lotto birthday party, behind the scenes there is some remuneration going on at lotto jackpot level as the Chief Executive of Camelot earns £1.8 million in pay and bonuses. Of course another birthday for the National Lottery means another annual report and this one has thrown up this interesting little gem.
Lottery winners scared to spend
A lotto win should be the answer to all your problems but sometimes living on a shoestring can be a habit too hard to break. That’s why lottery winners Stan and Pat Cable are still renting their council house seventeen months after pocketing £3.9 million on the UK Lotto. Unable to break the habit of spending frugally as they have been forced to do their whole lives, they are too scared to spend the money and still worry about money.
The Countdown is on for Lottery winner
We all know that unclaimed lotto prizes do after a certain amount of time go back into the fund for good causes. That’s why the race is on to find one UK Lotto winner who has just one week left to claim a £50,000 prize. It would be a shame to miss out on such a life changing amount of money and of course with players having just 180 days to claim there’s now just three days left to claim.
Lotto Jackpot ticket still unclaimed
A £3.6 million UK Lotto jackpot from two weeks ago is still yet to be claimed, leading Camelot to put out a shout for the winner to come forward. The winning lotto ticket, bought for the midweek draw on September 23rd was sold in the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Stathspey area of Scotland but the lucky winner may not even be aware of the win, having not checked the lottery ticket.
UK Lotto number generator
We at National Lottery are always looking for unique news to bring you about the UK Lotto, Euromillions and Camelot and while browsing the official National Lottery website this week came across something that may well be of interest to you. It’s a lottery number generator and it’s almost as much fun as their instant win games.
Lottery Funding helps tourism
Despite the rain and poor weather, the UK has always attracted many tourists from around the world. Of course they are interested in our heritage and culture and thanks to fifteen years of lottery funding by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the UK Lotto is actually helping tourism by maintaining and renovating these jewels in our crown.
UK Lotto most efficient in Europe
A recent study has shown that the UK Lotto, run by Camelot is the most efficiently run in the whole of Europe and that Camelot are deeply committed to maximises returns to the good causes fund. Anyone who takes an interest in where National Lottery money goes is probably not surprised by this as over £23 billion has been given to the fund since the launch of the lotto in 1994.
Fifteen years of Lotto Millionaires
It’s something many of us can just dream of, winning the lotto and becoming an instant millionaire. This month the National Lottery is celebrating fifteen years of millionaires and absolutely billions have been given away in that time. Of course when the lotto first begun it was creating a maximum of fifty two millionaires a year, twice weekly draws soon followed and that could mean more than one hundred millionaires ever single year.
Conservative Plans for the Lottery
Things are starting to warm up for the election now and already we’re seeing suggestions and promises being thrown around. The Tory’s are using the Lottery as a selling point by suggesting what they would do with lottery cash if they were to be voted in during the next general election. During Labours time in power they have directed National Lottery cash towards many community projects but the Conservative party intend on some changes, or at least that is what has been suggested.
Castle to be repaired with lottery cash
£700,000 of Heritage Lottery Fund money will be used to make safe, then restore the Bishop’s Palace and Keep at Farnham Castle in Surry. The historic building is in desperate need of restoration work before it becomes a safety hazard and too expensive to repair. The castle is to be repaired with National Lottery cash in a move which will also bring the entire site under a single management team.
Lottery winnings are not just about money
In 1997, Barry Chunwen, should have had a fantastic year, he scooped a multi million pound win on the National Lottery jackpot. After a successful career in hairdressing, his lucky numbers came up big time on the nation’s favourite lottery. It seemed his future had changed for the better, for good.
Lotto looking for millionaire
Organisers of the UK Lotto are looking for a multi-millionaire, the trouble is, this person may not even know they are a millionaire. That’s because the £4.9 million lottery winner is yet to come forward and understandably Camelot are starting to worry that they may not even know about the winning ticket.
Euromillions September Superdraw Winner
We’ve been bringing you news of it for weeks now and on Friday evening the latest Euromillions Superdraw went off without a hitch. UK players who were eager to match all five winning numbers and the two lucky stars to win the £89 million jackpot were left disappointed as one very lucky Frenchman won the entire Lotto jackpot.
Killer wins the Thunderball
A convicted murderer is now £250,000 richer after winner the Thunderball draw on the UK Lotto. Michael Edgar stabbed his wife to death in 1986 in what was considered to be provocative circumstances after she taunted him at a disco in 1986, Deborah Edgar died instantly as the knife penetrated her heart.
One day to the Euromillions Superdraw
There’s just one more day to wait now for your chance to win a staggering £85 million in the Euromillions Superdraw. This lotto jackpot could make all your dreams come true but as the saying goes, you have to be in it to win it so make sure you have those lottery tickets safe for the massive Euromillions lottery or even better play here with the National-Lottery online and never worry about losing a ticket again.
The Big Lottery Fund website
Every week we Brits buy millions of National Lottery tickets that generate millions of pounds in revenue. Since the awarding of the new lottery license around 28% of total National Lottery revenue is expected to go to good causes. In fact over £23 billion has been raised for good causes since the National Lottery’s inception in 1994. Wouldn’t it be nice to see where it goes?
Lotto Numbers Predicted
As promised earlier in the week Derren Brown correctly predicted last nights Lotto numbers live on Channel 4. He’d set up the show earlier in the week to show how he could predict the lotto numbers as the draw was taking place and at the draw time last night he did exactly that on his new television show. The well-known illusionist baffled the viewing public as he wrote down the six winning lottery numbers as the draw was being held and then showed how he had matched the lot.
Ferry Staff Bag Lottery Jackpot
We at National Lottery love nothing more than hearing about syndicate lotto wins, there’s nothing quite like sharing the wealth around a group of friends or co-workers. But one lottery syndicate are sharing it more than most do as a massive twenty-five strong lotto syndicate scoop £2.2 million on the National Lottery giving each of them almost £75,000 each of lotto cash.
Lotto isn’t a Trademark
Issues over ownership of a name often come up in the media and in court, it was only this week that McCurry – a small curry company – won a battle against the catering giants McDonalds to use their similar name and while less publicised the National Lottery have also been dealt a blow this week when told that the word lotto isn’t a trademark.
Lottery Boost for Handymen
A handyman service for residents of one Scottish community is among recently chosen projects to receive hundreds of thousands of pounds from the Big Lottery Fund. The lottery boost will help set up a handyman service for residents of the Highlands of Kilmuir and Logie for elderly residents to get basic DIY jobs in and around their homes done.
All Eyes on the Celebs for the Lotto Awards
As per the news we brought you earlier in the week, the Lotto Awards were held last night, live on BBC1. Seven good causes – voted for by you – were each handed £2,000 each at the awards but it was all eyes on the celebs who hosted the show and not always for the right reasons either. Here’s all the news about the award ceremony and how it panned out.
Lottery Awards Final 2009
Tomorrow evening you will be able to see the Lottery Awards final live in BBC1 where several community based projects go head to head to see who will win the lottery grant they need. Unlike many lottery good causes, the Lottery Awards are voted for by you, the lottery player and have given you the chance to vote for the community project you think is most deserving. We'd like to tell you all about it and wish all the participants good luck in tomorrows finals!
Lotto Encourages Excessive Gambling
The ASA have ruled that an email advert by Camelot encourages excessive gambling and the ad has been banned. The ASA upheld the single complaint that the email lotto advert breached guidelines of social responsibility by trying to get its customers to increase the amounts they gamble on the lottery in the online promotion from the UK Lotto.
Euromillions Ticket Prices set to Rise
Since the launch of the Euromillions, players in the UK have paid slightly less for tickets than those in countries that use the Euro, at the time the amount settled out to be the same but with the Euro evening out against the pound tickets for the lotto are set to rise by a third this November. This comes with a brand new draw though, the Millionaire Raffle which will give you double the chance to become a Euromillions millionaire every week
Lotto iPhone Application
Playing the UK Lotto is getting easier than ever with the advent of internet sites and the Lotto online purchasing and now keeping track of lottery numbers, winners and news has just become even easier with UK Lotto a brand new iPhone application. With over six different lottery games to choose from it can be hard to keep track if you like to play them all but there’s no need to worry any more as this handy app for the iPhone makes it all really simple.
Riches to Rags for Teen Lottery Winner
One story this week makes us wonder why 16 is the minimum age to buy lottery tickets yet all other forms of gambling require you to be 18. Callie Rogers won almost £2 million on the UK Lotto back in 2003, when she was just 16 years old but it seems she didn’t have the maturity to handle the fame and choices this gave her and the money almost destroyed her.
Time Running out for Unclaimed Lotto Jackpot
There’s a section on the National Lottery website where you can check for unclaimed lotto prizes, it’s well worth checking out now and then and as a regular at this page we can tell you that time is running out for one unclaimed lotto winner as they only have until September 7th to claim a jackpot worth over £2 million! Check those old tickets now, no matter where they may be hiding as you may well be a £2 million lottery winner.
Carlisle Man Celebrates Scratchcard win
We all hope for a little luck when buying those National Lottery scratchcards and for one lucky scratcher that luck was with him as he wins £40,000 on a lotto scratchcard. The gentleman from Carlisle bought the ticket with his weekly shopping and now won’t have to worry about his shopping bill for a while after netting £40,000.
Nature Reserve in the Spotlight
A Nature reserve in Doncaster is about to star on a BBC television show in the live final of the National Lottery awards, shown on BBC1. The show will be broadcast to the whole of the UK on Saturday, September 5th and will feature a short film about this project and other finalist projects before the winner of the lotto awards is unveiled to the nation on live television.
X Factor Beats Lottery Ratings
Saturday night television has always been known to be hugely popular attracting massive ratings and the National Lottery draw show is by far one of the most popular shows of any Saturday evening as players check those winning numbers to see if they are an instant millionaire. Yet as popular as it is, last night saw the return of the X Factor which easily beat the lotto in the ratings race.
Two Share Euromillions Rollover
It’s been growing for weeks now and lottery fever was rampant but this Friday the massive £65 million Euromillions lottery jackpot was shared as two lucky players matched all five winning numbers and the two lucky stars. Each of the lucky players will now receive over £32 million from the Euromillions, however neither winning player was from the UK.
Hunt for Croydon Lottery Winner
The hunt is on for a lotto winner who is holding a winning ticket worth over £1 million! The ticket was sold in the Croydon area and the ticket matched all the winning numbers in the Lotto draw on May 16th 2009. The ticket is worth £1,316,462 and now lottery officials are urging players to check all their old lottery tickets in the hope of the winner coming forward.
Lottery Criticised for Funding Cut
The National Lottery has been condemned this week for providing funding to help wife beaters at the same time as a charity for victims has had its budget slashed. The Domestic Abuse Counselling Service has been awarded almost half a million by the lotto to set up counselling sessions for the perpetrators of domestic violence but at the same time the Warwickshire Violence Support services have discovered that its £35,000 a year funding is to be stopped.
Three is the Magic Number for Lotto
You’ve heard the song but it seems three really is the magic number for lotto players across the UK. The National Lottery have today revealed statistics that show that residents who live at number three have scooped over £77 million on the National Lottery since the lottery launched in November 1994. Don’t worry if you live next door because this is closely followed by players who live at number two!
Forget Foreign Lottos its all here
The news has been dominated in the last couple of weeks with news of the Italian SuperEnalotto rolling over many times and the record jackpot that’s on offer. But forget the foreign lotto’s because it’s all here on offer in the UK with a Euromillions four times rolled over £64 million jackpot. It's one lotto prize I'm sure we'd all love to win and you can play right here on our pages.
Rumours of Teesside Syndicate win
When one person or a lotto syndicate has a National Lottery win and chooses to stay anonymous then it makes it impossible for us to bring you news about winners but one Teesside newspaper today is reporting a story that one Teesside syndicate may have won last Saturday’s £7.5 million rollover jackpot in the National Lottery draw.
Hair Raising Lotto Prize
As Hilary Carter treated herself to her weekly cut and blow dry at the local hairdressers she could never have imagined she would be leaving the salon a lucky lotto winner. But that’s exactly what happened as her hairdresser called out the winning lotto numbers and Mrs Carter realised she had matched five main balls and the bonus ball.
Lottery Cash Helped Gypsies
The Daily Mail newspaper is today claiming that £5 million of National Lottery cash has been mismanaged and sent to help gypsy and traveller communities and flout planning laws. The cash, provide by the Big Lottery fund is meant to help good causes they have claimed but has gone to advising gypsy and Roma groups on how to set up illegal camp and get benefits here in the UK.
Lottery Winner Receives Hate Mail
Last week we brought you news of a very lucky £4.5 million National Lottery winner from Northern Ireland, Seamus Duffy scooped £4.5 million on the UK Lotto as he was filling in forms for sickness benefit, now after being struck with such good luck the lotto winner has received hate mail from one jealous individual.
Call for East End Lottery Winner to Come Forward
If you live in the East end of London then the National Lottery is urging you to check all your old lotto tickets very carefully. That’s because a massive £300,000 Euromillions lottery prize for a lottery tickets bought in the borough has gone unclaimed for a few weeks now. The champagne is on ice and all the winner has to do is come forward to claim their prize.
Scout Groups Celebrate Lotto Grant
As Scouts they may be too young to play the UK Lotto but they’ve still managed to hit the jackpot as one Scout Group celebrates a lotto grant from the Big Lottery Fund. The group from Cookstown in Northern Island is celebrating an award of almost £6,000 to their organisation as part of a larger lotto grant of £249,000 to thirty-five Scout groups across Northern Ireland.
Lotto Millionaire Takes a Holiday
Maria Murray has never been abroad but after winning £1 million on a Lotto scratchcard at Christmas has decided to take her first foreign holiday. Now many people in her situation would have splashed out on a Caribbean break, think all inclusive with white sands but not Maria Murray, she is taking her family on a holiday to Turkey and staying in an £8 a night apartment. She’s even getting a £2 a night discount because her mum knows the owner.
More Lottery Cash for Veterans
You may remember not so long ago, veterans of WWII receiving lottery cash to allow them to travel overseas for the D-Day commemorations, well now veterans are to get even more lotto cash to allow them to travel under the Heroes Return scheme with the National Lottery.
Viral Nation with the National Lottery
It’s fifteen years since the launch of the National Lottery and they’ve found a totally unique way to celebrate this event. It’s a brand new filmmaking competition – Viral Nation – and it requires budding filmmakers around the UK to submit ideas for a viral video to show how lottery money has been used around the UK.
Go Green with Lottery Grants
A bunch of green fingered pensioners are able to join forces and grow their own vegetables thanks to a grant from the National Lottery. The friends from South Shields are celebrating after being awarded a £5,200 lotto grant at the end of last year to set up the green venture.
Lottery Loophole for Overseas Players
If you’re planning a summer holiday this year then you may find a lottery loophole prevents you from claiming your National Lottery win. The National Lottery website is available to use from anywhere in the world but if you read the small print you may find that if you play overseas you cannot claim that big lottery win.
Lotto Winner Fined for Cannabis Growing
A UK Lotto winner was fined yesterday for allowing cannabis to be grown in her home. Susan Kennedy scooped £1.1 million on the National Lottery in 2001 but the court heard how now she has frittered away all the cash and her sole investment was £1,300 a month earned from working in a burger van and some small investments she has made.
Lottery doesn’t Benefit the Poor
Research this week has shown that the National Lottery doesn’t benefit the poorest people in the UK who spend more of their proportion of income on the games in the hope of a big win. Manual workers and the unemployed are more likely to play National Lottery scratch cards, according to the research yet they are least likely to benefit from lottery funding.
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