UK lottery sales rise by 5%

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Lurk More N00b — Tue, 16 May 2006 17:39:03 GMT

In other news, Brittain finds the common street Chav a major lottery ticket buying demographic and redesigns its tickets with a Burberry plaid pattern. Film at eleven.

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dvdiva — Tue, 16 May 2006 17:27:37 GMT

Either this is due to vendors like PTS or scratch/small games. Their jackpots for lotto have only hit 14-15M a few times. Also the record Euromillions pot has a lot to due with it.

UK lottery sales rise by 5%

Lottery Post — Mon, 15 May 2006 13:27:00 GMT

Sales of National Lottery tickets have increased by 5.2% to more than 5bn (US$9.4 billion), according to operator Camelot.

The 246.7m (US$464 million) year-on-year increase, which was partly due to the creation of new games, marks the third consecutive year of rising sales.

Players spent 5,012.8m across all games in the 12 months to 31 March.

Camelot's latest sales figures will be its last before the entry deadline for bids for the next licence to run the National Lottery.

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