Teenage Student Celebrates £1.5M Lottery Win
A 17-year-old girl has become one of Britains youngest Lotto winners after scooping 1.5 million, it was confirmed Sunday.Lisa Dougan, from Torphichen, West Lothian, hit the jackpot in last Wednesday nights draw.The lucky teenager will pick up her 1,568,212 cheque at Glasgows Hilton Hotel today.A spokeswoman for Camelot said they were contacted yesterday and verified Lisas lucky numbers of 5, 16, 30, 38, 42 and 43. She shared the jackpot with one other winner.The teenager, who is on a sport and ...
Mar 22, 2004, 4:05 am - Lottery News forum
Lottery fund attacked over grant to anti-deportation campaigners
MPs have launched a scathing attack on the UK national lottery distribution fund that supports charities and community groups after an inquiry into a grant made to an anti-deportation campaign.The 340,000 grant awarded to the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns by the Community Fund in 2002 sparked a furious onslaught on the lottery cash distributor by the Daily Mail. An earlier 191,000 grant made to the NCADC in 1998 had passed unnoticed.The second grant also prompted interventio ...
Mar 2, 2004, 1:07 pm - Lottery News forum
British Lotto winner's legal problems grow
Michael Carroll picked up his $18 million lottery check wearing a court-issued electronic tracing tag.And the longtime petty criminal's worries have only gotten worse since he became a rich man.Carroll -- dubbed the Lotto Lout in the British press -- recently pleaded guilty to drug possession. He also is accused of receiving $2,000 worth of stolen power tools. Those are just the latest entries on Carroll's long rap sheet, which includes brushes with the law both before and after his big win.Th ...
Feb 19, 2004, 7:30 am - Lottery News forum
Spend a lott this Christmas
'Tis the season to splash out and be jolly...and three lucky ladies won't be worrying about the bills when they start rolling in after Christmas.Trish Emson, Mandy Wright, and Alison Hamilton have all hit it big on the UK National Lottery with their families, sharing more than 7 million between them. So how will this year's Christmas be different and what kind of presents will they be buying for their family and friends?Here they share how they will be spending their big day and what kind of g ...
Dec 22, 2003, 6:14 am - Lottery News forum
£2.6m Lottery win goes unclaimed
A 2.6 million National Lottery jackpot has gone unclaimed and is to be handed over to good causes.It's the third largest prize in the lottery's history to go unclaimed.Organisers Camelot had urged players to have a final search for the winning Lotto Extra ticket.It was bought in south-east Northumberland for the draw on Saturday May 10 and carried the numbers 2, 7, 17, 25, 38 and 44.In February this year a 2,928,214 Lotto jackpot ticket, also bought in the Northumberland area, remained unclaim ...
Nov 7, 2003, 4:34 am - Lottery News forum
Camelot launches daily lottery
Camelot is launching its latest attempt to try revive public interest in the lottery by starting a daily draw which will offer better odds of winning smaller prizes.But the new Daily Play game faces competition from a rival draw being launched next month.Vernons, best known for running football pools, claim its Florida 4 game will offer a 20 per cent chance of winning as opposed to 12.5 per cent on Daily Play.Players on the 1 Daily Play draw - which takes place at 8.30pm, six days a week - sele ...
Sep 23, 2003, 3:52 am - Lottery News forum
Add-on games stem UK Lottery sales decline
UK National Lottery sales have stabilized even though the main Lotto draw suffered yet another fall, operator Camelot says.Latest figures show sales across all Lottery games averaged 85 million a week, matching the previous quarter.But they are still a long way down from a peak of around 100 million a week towards the end of the 1990s.Lotto, the main draw, sold around a million fewer tickets a week in April to June this year than in the previous three months - from an average 61 million a wee ...
Sep 16, 2003, 3:52 am - Lottery News forum
Family double as father scoops lotto windfall
A retired father of three is celebrating an 85,248 Lotto windfall - just two months after his son scooped 179,137.Anthony McDonnell was presented with his cheque by his son Ian after the family double, which is estimated to have defied odds of 339 billion-to-one.Mr McDonnell, 59, from Bridgnorth, Shropshire, matched five numbers and the bonus ball in last Saturday's National Lottery draw - eight weeks after Ian, a 34-year-old finance worker, did the same.Mr McDonnell senior told a press confer ...
Aug 21, 2003, 3:19 am - Lottery News forum
UK Lottery chiefs may double ticket prices
The price of a National Lottery ticket could rise - and even double to 2 - under plans being considered by the operator Camelot, it emerged today.Lottery executives are concerned that they are missing out on huge profits because the cost of playing the main game Lotto has not risen with inflation.As sales of tickets for the game continue to fall, it is thought that a price rise could help to push the company's finances - and the money raised for good causes - back up.Chief executive Dianne Thom ...
Aug 5, 2003, 4:59 am - Lottery News forum
