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UK couple waits for house to be painted, then claims £32.5M lottery jackpotNews Story
A Cambridgeshire couple who won 32.5 million (US$45.5 million) on the lottery have been identified and they've revealed the bizarre reason they carried the winning ticket around for a week before claiming the massive windfall. Retired schoolteacher Gerry Cannings, 63, and his wife Lisa, 48, were aware they had picked the winning numbers the morning after the draw but didn't celebrate until days later as their house was being decorated. The couple, from Peterborough, wanted to wait until th
Feb 25, 2016, 7:47 am - Todd - Lottery News

Euro Millions lottery winner is gardener and 'nice chap'News Story
Onion-growing granddad Brian Caswell will jet to Rio and buy a flash car after claiming a 25 million (US$40.8 million) Euro Millions lottery jackpot. But the 74-year-old, who won half the Euro Millions jackpot last Friday, said he and wife Joan, 72, would not move far from their modest home in Bolton, Greater Manchester. CCTV footage captured the happy winner punching the air at his local newsagent on learning he had won on Saturday. He is Britain's third-biggest Lotto winner ever and t
Jun 18, 2009, 10:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

Oregon Lottery glitch in July made all Keno tickets losersNews Story
The Oregon Lottery has built up a $1.2 billion a year business trafficking in the eternal thrill of gambling. Just one of its games, Keno, was played an extraordinary 73.7 million times last year. But the Keno odds took a sudden swing in the early morning hours of July 23, when scanners read all Keno tickets as losers, even when they weren't. The Lottery never widely disclosed the technical glitch that gave players zero chance of winning. The agency confirmed the defect lasted nearly six h
Sep 10, 2018, 5:53 am - Todd - Lottery News

$435 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot on track to 17-month highReply
Derp mentioned a few of the many foolish lottery winners...and they all happened to be older people who blew through some or all of their winnings, some of them coming to a tragic end. As far as I know, Jack Whittaker still has a lot of his jackpot left, but there's no denying there's something wrong with that family, at least some sort of gene that causes addictive behavior; his addiction being strip clubs and back room poker and his daughter and granddaughter's addictions being drugs, which
Jun 12, 2017, 12:58 am - mikeintexas - Lottery News

British lottery ticket wins £84.4M Euro Millions jackpotNews Story
Largest lottery jackpot ever won in Britain A single lottery ticket purchased in Great Britain won Friday's 84.4 million (US$122.7 million) Euro Millions jackpot. It is the highest lottery prize ever won in Great Britain. The winning Euro Millions numbers were 1, 17, 31, 43, and 47 with the Lucky Star numbers 2 and 3. The win comes four months after Nigel Page and his partner Justine Laycock won 56 million to become Britain's biggest lottery winners at the time. The couple, who live
May 16, 2010, 11:35 am - Todd - Lottery News