National Lottery

From the bin to £12 million A mum whose winning lottery ticket was accidentally thrown in the bin by a shopkeeper has been told she can finally claim her £12 million jackpot. Kath Main, 46, from Pontypridd in South Wales, appealed to National Lottery operator Allwyn after the owner of a Londis in Abercynon binned […]

3 weeks ago

Serious money The National Lottery are set to launch a billion-pound jackpot in a huge shakeup that will see two new game formats launched. National Lottery operator, Allywn, announced today that, from this summer, the “biggest ever change” to Lotto would be on the way and as well as the launch of a “UK-specific version of […]

5 months ago

Talk about luck! A couple from Wales has won £1m on the National Lottery, defying the odds by winning for a second time in only a few years. In June 2018, Richard Davies, 49, and his wife Faye Stevenson-Davies, 43, won £1,000,000 playing the EuroMillions Millionaire Maker. And they have only gone and done it […]

9 months ago

His winnings didn’t last very long A man who won £80,000 on the National Lottery wants to “go back on benefits” after spending his winnings in just a matter of weeks. Daniel Millar, a granddad from Motherwell, had been on benefits when he won the money in September 2017, the Daily Record reports. But he […]

1 year ago

His winnings didn’t last very long A man who won £80,000 on the National Lottery wants to “go back on benefits” after spending his winnings in just a matter of weeks. Daniel Millar, a granddad from Motherwell, had been on benefits when he won the money in September 2017, the Daily Record reports. But he […]

1 year ago

‘I literally burst into tears and I cried my eyes out. I could not believe it’ A plasterer who won big on the National Lottery has divided people over what he plans to do next. John Stembridge was only 51 when he won big, but planned to give up his job after winning £10,000 per […]

2 years ago