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07/15/09 Brian and Joan Caswell from Bolton have jumped into third place in The National Lottery Rich List after winning a staggering £24,951,269.40. They banked half of the top prize in the EuroMillions lottery on 6/12/09. "When he scanned the ticket his mouth dropped open and he went a little ashen. He called for his boss to verify the numbers and told me to contact Camelot. I didn't have my glasses so couldn't even read the numbers on the ticket he gave me, so I headed home to get it into focus."
A couple from Luton are beating their post-holiday blues by banking a massive £10,784,075 Lotto Double Rollover jackpot from 4/08/2009 draw. Martyn White and Sandra hit the jackpot and were notified by email.
Jane Surtees win £7,544,200 In Whitby PA her is still shocked after discovering that she had scooped the £7,544,200 Lotto rollover jackpot in the draw on 12/10/08.
Jane returned home and switched on see the news headlines and decided to check her Lotto numbers. She couldn't believe what she saw the tv, powered up her computer to triple check her winning numbers.
The going is good, in fact very good, for a horse-racing mad family from Tamworth in Staffordshire after they matched all six numbers in the Lotto draw on Saturday 10/18/08 to win a £1,134,695 share of the UK Lotto jackpot. Tina and Colin are both now retired. Tina was a cleaner but is now studying accountancy at her local college. Colin used to work at the Dawmill Coalmine near Coventry. They plan to use the win to treat their family and will enjoy their first holiday win a luxury Mediterranean cruise.
08/30/08 Alan Rowley has pocketed a tidy £1,925,567 share of the Lotto jackpot on 30th August. He checked his emails and realised he had turned into a millionaire overnight. Alan, his wife Sandra and sons haven't had the chance to celebrate the win yet but are already planning how to spend their newfound fortune. Alan has his eye on a new car and Sandra, a holiday home in Kilnsea, Humberside.
Alan said: "I always check my emails first thing in the morning in case I have a customer enquiry overnight. However, my eye wandered to the email from The National Lottery. It said I was a winner so I thought I'd just won another tenner so I was stunned to read I had actually won £1,925,567 and should call the Lottery Helpline. I had to ask my wife to double check I was reading it correctly!"
Horsham Couple Win £2.3 Million On Lotto. A lucky couple from Horsham are celebrating after winning a £2,349,055 share of the Lotto jackpot Bob and Pat Green still cannot believe they have scooped a share of the jackpot. Pat said: “I was in the kitchen with my grandchildren checking my numbers in the paper as usual. I couldn’t believe it when I realised that our numbers matched the draw. I waited for my son to come home and got him to check the ticket against the paper. We were stunned. My youngest grandchild couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about! “We've always used the same numbers, which were chosen at random, but Bob had recently complained that The winning Lotto ticket was purchased from Waitrose, Pivies Place in Horsham. The winning Lotto numbers on the Saturday 5 July draw were 2, 22, 26, 28, 30, 39 and the bonus ball was 12.
Mark Weir of Darlington nets £2,778,125 Lotto jackpot in May. Mark, who works at a plastics factory, and his wife still cannot believe their luck in winning. on my ticket. Waiting for The UK National Lottery office to open felt like the longest half hour of our lives." The ideal of winning all that money is still sinking in.
Martin and Hannah Adamson, recently married, win £1,477,059 in the UK Lotto, are looking forward to a lifetime of happiness with no financial burdens after winning a share of the Lotto jackpot.
Londonderry man, Ryan Magee, had a premonition that he would win a share of the massive £96 million EuroMillions jackpot on Friday 8th February - and today he is Northern Ireland's third biggest National Lottery millionaire, worth almost £6.5 million. The IT specialist was so sure he would strike it rich that he bought 11 tickets in four different towns - and one of them did the trick. It was one of 16 tickets throughout Europe that shared the huge fortune - and one of six bought in the UK. The computer expert, who is expecting his second child with wife Margaret in August, runs his own servicing and repair business - he matched five numbers and one Lucky Star number to win £6,462,181.30 after the huge jackpot rolled down to the next winning prize level. Ryan said: The winning ticket was the last one of the 11 I checked by which time the numbers were He continued "My only regular flutter is three lines on the Saturday Lotto draw so my 11 tickets were out of the ordinary for me - I really did have that lucky feeling. I was at a house party on Friday night and all my friends checked their tickets. But I never check my tickets on the night - I always like going to bed thinking I could wake up in the morning a millionaire."
Top of the Magee's shopping list is a pet dog for 10 year-old son, Lee - while Ryan has his eye on a Ferrari, which now has pride of place as the screen-saver on his home computer, and Margaret fancies 'a nice house in the country'. They now also plan to expand his business, while Margaret intends to continue her work as a student mental health nurse. All of which is well within their scope - interest alone on the win comes to around £20,000 per month. As a family Lorry driver, Lloyd, is chairman of the Bond Street Community Association on the Waterside which won a grant of £80,000 by public vote in a People's Millions feature on UTV. The grant from the Big Lottery Fund was for the development of a play area for children in the district.
The approximate odds of winning on Lotto HotPicks are as follows: 'Pick 2', 1 in 79; 'Pick 3', 1 in 922; 'Pick 4', 1 in 14,126.
A capping system is put in place in the extreme and unlikely event that more players win than the prize fund can pay out. Lotto and Thunderball both have a capping system: Lotto in terms of the number of £10 winners and Thunderball on all prize levels. To date, neither have had to use the capping system. What date did Thunderballstart?
The first Thunderball tickets went on sale on Monday 7th June 1999 and the first Thunderball draw took place on Saturday 12th June 1999. When was the first midweek Thunderball draw? The first midweek Thunderball draw took place on Wednesday 23rd October 2002.
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