EuroMilllions winner Adrian Bayford can finally sell his sprawling £6.5m country estate after being given the go-ahead to keep a state-of-the-art games room he built without planning permission. The multi millionaire, who eight years ago shared a £148m fortune with his wife Gillian, had faced being told to tear down the building which he had … Read more
A couple have won £1million just 24 hours after the husband was made redundant – following a tragic year that saw him lose both his brother and sister-in-law and his wife suffer a life-changing diagnosis. David and Shelley Adams, from Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, hit the jackpot when they won the Lotto prize last weekend, hours … Read more
That spectral sound you can hear is the ghost of Margaret Thatcher saying ‘I told you so’. This image came to me when reading the Sunday Times’s revelation of how a ‘loophole’ had allowed children of 16 and 17 to gamble up to £350 a week in pursuit of National Lottery jackpots on their laptops … Read more
An electrician who bought a Euromillions lottery ticket for the first time ever after ‘a voice in his head’ told him to has landed a staggering £1 million win. Simon Waddup, 31, from Coventry, had been shopping in his local Aldi supermarket when he ‘kept hearing a voice in his head’ telling him to enter the National … Read more
British ticketholder scoops £15.2million EuroMillions jackpot – just days after another UK player won £16.5million A British lottery player last night scooped the £15.2 million Euromillions jackpot On Tuesday, another Briton won a half-share of that night’s £33 million jackpot Each of the players has 180 days from the date of the draw to collect … Read more
British ticketholder wins tonight’s EuroMillions jackpot – but must share the £33m prize with a player from France £33million jackpot to be split between a player in the UK and another in France Andy Carter at the National Lottery advised people to check their tickets online Tonight’s main EuroMillions numbers are 04, 09, 14, 21 … Read more
People living near parks starved of funding by cash-strapped councils should pay higher taxes to maintain their upkeep, a think-tank recommended today. The NHS should be given the power and funding to maintain and even create new parks ‘as a tool of healthcare’, the report by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) also suggested. While more … Read more
National Lottery website and app both crash after power failure ahead of £5m Lotto draw tonight Customers trying to access the website are told online services are ‘unavailable’ The power outage took place in the Watford area, an town northwest of London On Twitter, The National Lottery apologised for any inconvenience caused today By James Wood For … Read more
Here are the ten previous UK winners of the EuroMillions draw so far 1. In July 2011, Colin and Chris Weir became Europe’s biggest lottery winners when they scooped more than £161million. The couple, who have been married for 30 years, said they were ‘not scared’ of the wealth because they were going to have … Read more
The National Lottery will divert £300m to support Britain’s most vulnerable amid coronavirus crisis in biggest UK non-government contribution since outbreak began By Danny Gallagher For Mailonline Published: 12:21 GMT, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 16:56 GMT, 28 March 2020 The National Lottery is set to join the fight against coronavirus by distributing up to … Read more