uk lottery draw

Originally posted to the Sky News website on 11 August 2010

David Williams, Sky News Online

An 18-year-old who scooped £1.1m on the lottery has told Sky News she didn’t realise all her lucky numbers had come up.

Stacey Bywater said she was pleased with £70 extra spending money to take on a family holiday to Turkey after spotting only four of her six matching numbers.

The teenager admitted it was only later that her father Gary examined the ticket and found she had won the jackpot.

“I watched the lottery on Saturday night and realised I had some numbers but only thought I had four, which was about £70,” Miss Bywater, from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, told Sky News.

“Then I realised I had five, which was a bit more. Then when I went to see how much I’d won, my Dad said: ‘I think you need to sit down and check your numbers again because you’ve got the full six.’”

The nursery nurse said she will keep the money in the family – buying a home for her elder sister and giving her parents a deposit to move out of their council house.

But she said she had no plans to jack in her day job after the £1,117,779 windfall.

“I’m going to continue in my career, I work with children and I really enjoy it so I won’t be giving that up, but it’s going to change my life,” she said.
“I can support my family, I can buy a house for my family and make sure they’re all comfortable and they don’t have any money worries, so I’ll just enjoy myself.”

She will still go on the pre-arranged getaway to Turkey, alongside family and friends.

Upon return, the new millionaire pledges to splash some of her cash on a soft-top Mini Cooper.

But she can’t go on a spin just yet – she needs to pass her driving test first.

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Originally posted to the BBC.co.uk website

Millennium Country Park in the Forest of Marston Vale is in the running to become UK’s Best Environment Project.

The 225-hectare park between Bedford and Milton Keynes is one of three projects shortlisted for the category.

It is part of 2010’s National Lottery Awards which aim to find the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects.

The park has been transformed from a damaged industrial piece of land in to a park that includes woodland, wetland, play areas and a wildlife garden.

Self-sufficient

Thanks to Lottery funding the area now also includes meadows, walking, cycling and horse trails, a new visitor and conference centre, which has made the project self-sufficient.

Tony Talbot from the Millennium Country Park project said:

“We are absolutely delighted to have made it to the final and want to thank everyone who has supported us so far.

“We hope that the local community will now vote for us to win so that our staff and volunteers receive the recognition they deserve.”

This year’s awards will be held at London’s Roundhouse and are supported by the actress and former Cold Feet star, Fay Ripley.

The ceremony will be broadcast on BBC One in September 2010.

There are seven categories with three finalists up for an award which includes a £2,000 prize.

Public voting will decide who wins and ends on midday on Friday 13 August 2010.

The public can vote for Millennium Country Park by calling 0844 686 7607.

Calls cost 5p from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may vary, calls from mobiles could cost considerably more.

Or visit the Lottery Website

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Published: 2010/07/27 15:37:13 GMT

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Originally posted to lotterypost.com website.

Published: June 14, 2010, 7:58 am

The British tradition of national lottery has been traced back to the 16th century — when a jackpot of £5,000 was up for grabs and participants had to wait three years to find out if they were winners.

A letter has emerged from Queen Elizabeth I, written in 1566, which gives instructions for collecting money, commanding that persons of ‘good trust’ be entrusted with the prizes.

The letter was written to Sir John Spencer, advising of 400,000 lots, each costing 10 shillings, with prizes to be paid in a combination of gold and merchandise, including tapestries, linens and fine fabrics.

The jackpot of £5,000 is equivalent to £850,000 pounds today (US$1.3 million), and part of the money raised from ticket sales went to good causes, as is the case in today’s lottery.

The letter states: ‘Where we have com[m]anded a ceratine carte of a Lotterie to be published by our Shirif of Countie in the principall townes of the same…’ And continues: ‘…it is expedient to have somme persons appointed of good trust to receave such particular sommes as our subjects shall of their owne free disposition be ready to deliver upon the said lotterie.’

Monies raised, it states, shall be ‘employed to good and publique acts and beneficially for o[u]r Realme and o[u]r Subjects.’

The letter states that out of every pound sterling, Spencer was allowed sixpence to pay the collectors.

It also stated that he was to issue books of numbers and tickets.

As a final incentive to Spencer, for every £500 pounds sent to London, a further 50 shillings was promised to him.

The draw was not held until three years later 1569, due to a lack of support and the logistics in selling the tickets around the country.

This lottery died out but there were similar draws held between 1750 and 1826.

The letter, which is signed with Elizabeth’s distinctive flourishing signature, is expected to sell for £20,000 – four times the original jackpot — at auction.

Richard Davie, from International Autograph Auctions, who is selling the letter, said: ‘This letter shows that the idea of a lottery to raise money is nothing new.

‘Tickets were sold and a jackpot was drawn and the money raised was intended for good causes.

‘It was exactly like the one we have today, although they didn’t have scratch cards.

‘This was not an instant success because the draw did not happen until three years after Elizabeth sent her instructions to Sir John Spencer.

‘The letter includes a good blind embossed paper seal and is two pages long with her distinctive, flourishing signature.

‘It is a unique item and highly collectable. It has been put up for sale by a collector and there will be interest from a number of enthusiasts.’

The sale is on Sunday at the Edwardian Radisson Hotel at Heathrow in London.

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The extraordinary story of someone wrongly identified as the winner of a record lottery payout.

Originally posted to the AsianImage.co.uk website

12:40pm Friday 11th June 2010

Exclusive By Asian Image reporter

A couple who have been wrongly accused of winning £84million in the Euro lottery have spoken of their nightmare.

They claim they have had people knocking on their door wanting their mortgages repaid and others asking for new gold teeth.

The constant barrage of requests in the past few weeks has left them angry.

The rumours surfaced after it was believed an Asian person from the region had won £84million in the Euro Millions lottery in May. The winner has opted for the right to anonymity.

The man known as BK works in Blackburn and lives in Preston exclusively told Asian Image, “I was working in my office when I got the first phone call. I laughed it off at first and thought nothing of it.

“But thereafter, the avalanche of calls, text messages and emails began. Close friends and family, immediately accepted that I had not won the £84 million.

“A friend, who I worked with some years ago and now living in China, another in Washington DC, also got news of the ‘rumour’. We were amazed at the speed and distance a rumour like this could go.

“All of a sudden long-lost relatives, past associates, friends of friends and total strangers, were suddenly looking to contact me.

“Individuals suddenly recollected an event or passing interaction that we may have had. Thereby, claiming by ‘right’ a share of the winnings.”

The winning amount according to the Euro Millions website was £84,451,320.60 for the draw held on May 14. The prize made the winner the 789th richest person in the UK with a larger personal fortune than the likes of Sir Sean Connery (£80m).

Asian Image was even called to be told of BK’s winnings.

The nature of the requests were weird and bizarre. BK said: “We had requests for motorbikes, diamonds, second homes in Dubai, sports cars, loans and mortgages to be repaid and even gold teeth. The list was endless.

“Wealthy individuals were also trying to jump on the bandwagon. It got both funny and ridiculous when close friends had people knocking on their doors late at night by ‘strangers’ asking for them to be introduced to me and pay off their ‘mortgages’ or ‘debts’.

“The one single vital point was that, all those who requested something financial or material, did not ask for me to help or aid someone else in need or the poor.”

He was also taken aback by those wanting money that would in particular circles be termed as ‘haram’.

BK added: “One individual contradicted himself to the point where his opening sentence was ‘the winnings were haram (forbidden) and I should return them, but it would be okay for a contribution to a ‘Islamic Girls School in Dewsbury’.

“Another individual phoned for building a new mosque in Bolton, when he finally accepted that I had not won, he confirmed that he was just looking for his personal debts to be paid off.

“A neighbour called round one evening and would not believe me at all, it took him ages to leave, waiting for a confession.

“Distant relatives in the Midlands claimed they had documentary proof that I had won, stating my details were in the London press. Believe me I searched for ages on the internet and could find no reference to me.”

He said he had stopped answering his phone after the first week, but somehow people found ways to contact him.

BK added: “What I have learned about people over the last weeks is that there have been individuals who I have classed as good people, family and friends. And they have been just that ‘good people’.

“As for the ‘gossiper’s’ they live so called outwardly false religious lives, inwardly full of envy and hate and living a life of ‘gheebat’.

“My advice to any winner is – the ones you classed as family and friends, will always be just that. Look after the poor, needy and hard-working wherever you find them and whatever race and religion they are. The honest ones will never ask for anything.”

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Originally posted to the Stirling Observer website.

Jun 4 2010 by Stephen Robertson, Stirling Observer Friday

A CHURCH in Aberfoyle has landed a lottery cash boost of almost £10,000.

St Mary’s Episcopal Church, in Main Street, picked up the £9847 award in the recent round of grants from the National Lottery’s small grants scheme, Awards for All.

It will be put to good use to help improve public safety access and the facilities of the church itself.

Railings will be put in place, an audio and public address system will be installed and stackable chairs will also be bought.

A number of other community groups and charities in and around Stirling were also celebrating after being selected to receive grant funding.

Among these were the Stirling-based Aberlour Child Care Trust, which received a £7251 award.

Elsewhere, The Strathendrick Pipe Band Association were awarded £5,000 to buy equipment that will enable members to attend four major pipe band competitions.

Strathblane Out of School Care Ltd received £4865 for play equipment and summer excursions, and the Braehead and Broomridge Childminding Support Group landed £4715 which will be used to pay for things such as hall and equipment rental, snacks, activities and trips.

ACE Cornton, the community based adult learning project, also got a £4000 award to help develop peer support and mentoring services.

http://www.stirlingobserver.co.uk/stirling-news/local-news-stirling/news-stirling/2010/06/04/lottery-tees-up-a-10k-boost-for-aberfoyle-church-51226-26581928/

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Originally posted on the HeraldScotland.com website.

Phil Miller, Arts Correspondent

29 May 2010

It may be the first national artistic movement inspired entirely by cold, hard cash.

With government cuts, standstill budgets, the financial crisis and the ongoing recession, many young and established visual artists are facing a bleak financial future unless they get a lucky break.

But a new collective of UK contemporary artists – led by Glasgow-based Ellie Harrison – have decided to engineer their own luck, with a scheme which maximises their chances of winning large amounts of money on the various National Lottery draws.

To be launched nationally in July, the Syndicate, as they call themselves, will “strategically” play the lottery games using a mathematical system they believe increases the odds for the 40 players to win large amounts of money, which will then be shared equally.

The group of artists – including Harrison, who graduates from Glasgow School of Art’s esteemed MFA course this summer, John Beagles, S Mark Gubb, who is representing Wales at the Venice Biennale, and the Becks Futures-nominated Hayley Newman – will purchase 44 lines on each of the two weekly UK Lotto draws, at £1 a ticket, and 36 lines on the weekly EuroMillions which is £2 a ticket.

Each artist joining the Syndicate is therefore required to pay £4 a week for the duration of the year, or a total of £208 a year for each artist.

Each of the 44 lines they choose will use the same five Artists’ Lottery Syndicate numbers, which are secret, with the sixth number on each line being unique to that ticket.

The numbers on a lotto ticket range from 1 to 49, so the remaining 44 numbers available will be entered on the lotto lines filled in by the artists.

This system, the Syndicate said, hugely increases the chances of winning the Lotto or EuroMillions jackpots.

Harrison said the system means they will try to utilise the idea of luck, which has always played an important part in artistic careers, as well as a new way to access Lottery cash which has, since its start in 1994, been a boon for the cultural sphere.

She added: “I had the idea for the Artists’ Lottery Syndicate when it appeared that the glory days of arts funding which we witnessed under New Labour were drawing to a close.

“It seemed clear that artists would have to find new ways of funding their work and surviving in what was being referred to as a new ‘age of austerity’ for the arts.

“The Artists’ Lottery Syndicate aims to be a speculative new way of acquiring funds for artists. I thought it could be a fun collective activity, which would act as a gentle critique of artist’s relationships to the economy, as well as a potential money maker.

“It is a group of artists who are still aspirational, despite this time of economic doom and gloom, and who are coming together to support each other in their attempts to hit the jackpot. We’re using a specially calculated combination of numbers to maximise our odds of winning prizes. At the end of the year, each of the artists will receive a cheque for one-fortieth of the money we accumulate.”

The Syndicate is being run by Harrison and its other members include MFA students and artists from Birmingham, Cardiff, Fife, Glasgow, Lancaster, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Plymouth, Preston, Stoke-on-Trent, Suffolk and Worcestershire.

It will initially run from July 1 this year to July 2011, but may be continued if it proves to be successful.

The GSA Master course has produced artists such as the Turner Prize-winning Richard Wright, Douglas Gordon and Simon Starling.

This year its graduation show is being held at the Glue Factory and the CCA in Glasgow, and runs from June 11.

The big winners

The odds of winning the jackpot with a single ticket are nearly 14 million to one, but for a group running 30 tickets the chances are better, at 466,666 to one. The individual prize each person takes will fall in proportion to this, however.

Around a quarter of all jackpot wins are by syndicates, according to the National Lottery, but organisers warn would-be syndicate managers that they should sign contracts beforehand to avoid disputes.

Issues such as whether or not to go public in the event of a win can be divisive, and even close friends are advised to set out ground rules in advance.

Seven IT workers from Merseyside shared a £45m lottery jackpot in November last year, taking home more than £6m each, just two months after another group of nine friends, based at the Doon Inn in Blantyre, shared £4.5m.

Five years ago a syndicate of six women at the Morrison Bowmore’s bottling plant in Glasgow each won a £2.5m share of the total £15m jackpot.


http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/artists-in-a-bid-for-success-with-different-type-of-draw-1.1031219

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Originally published on National-Lottery.com

It can mean a lot to a village shop to be the only place to be selling lottery tickets for miles, especially in rural regions. Offering lottery tickets for sale can mean keeping your head above water when you run the post office in a tiny hamlet or the petrol station on a little used b road. So the latest lottery shake up will mean a great deal to certain lottery retailers because as many as 175 stores around the UK are to lose their lottery contracts for not performing as well as they could on the sale of lottery tickets.

The changes to lottery retailers around the UK are to take place in 28 days and all affected retailers have been advised of the removal of lottery machines in their premises. The changes effect lottery terminals that are turning over less that £1,000 a week and this could mean a blow to rural communities.

It’s not just rural locations either, at least half of the 175 terminals to be removed are in chain stores around the UK, making this a big cut back for the lottery company. The UK Lotto have made no secret about their desire to cut administration costs and it seems that this is one way that they are reaching their aim.

Check your local lottery shop, it’s quite possible there will be no lottery sales there soon, although with so many lottery players now buying lottery tickets online, it’s little wonder that lottery kiosks are reducing around the UK.

Article Last Updated: 27th May 2010

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Perhaps money doesn’t change you. Maybe it just makes you the same – but with money……

Originally published on the BBC website.

A notorious National Lottery millionaire from Norfolk says he wants to work as a dustman again after losing his fortune.

Michael Carroll, of Downham Market, was 19 when he won £9.7m in November 2002.

Mr Carroll, dubbed the “Lotto lout” by the tabloids because of his life of petty crime, collected his jackpot still wearing an electronic tag.

Veolia Environmental Services, which runs the bin service, said: “We are not recruiting for operatives in the area.”

Life and times of Michael Carroll:

· November 2002: Mr Carroll wins £9.7m jackpot while under electronic tagging order for being drunk and disorderly
· December 2002: He is fined £1,300 for dodging two £5 train fares
· June 2003: Fined £12,000 for claiming nearly £330 in Jobseeker’s Allowance while working as a dustman
· July 2004: Jailed for five months for breaching a court order
· February 2006: Sentenced to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to affray
· January 2007: Given a two-year supervised community order for abusing train travellers

Mr Carroll’s house in Swaffham was recently put up for sale.

He said: “I need some money don’t I? I can’t keep on going on as I have been.

“It will get me back into reality instead of the rollercoaster I’ve been on for the last eight years.”

He said he preferred working outside, but added he was now more unfit than he had been when he gave up the job in 2002.

When father-of-two Mr Carroll was jailed for affray in 2006, Norwich Crown court heard he had 42 previous offences recorded since 1997.

Just before he was jailed he admitted in an interview with BBC Look East that he had spent £1.2m of his lottery fortune on cocaine but added that he had stopped taking drugs.

Asked if he regretted what he had done since winning the jackpot, Mr Carroll said: “When you give nine million pounds to a 19-year-old what do you think is going to happen?”

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Published: 2010/05/19 17:10:38 GMT

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Originally posted on FreeGamblingAdvice.com by gambler.

Elottery syndicates introduced the Golden ticket incentive for lottery players back in 2009, since then it has given away many prizes to players each and every month, and then in January 2010 it gave away the first ever elottery BMW mini as a prize to one lucky syndicate member.

The benefits of playing in a lottery syndicate are well publicised with Camelot (the UK National lottery operator) reporting one in 4 jackpot wins are won by syndicates. A lottery syndicate is a group of people who get together to play the lotto in a group. In theory they increase their chances of a win by pooling their tickets. Lottery syndicates exist in most work places in the UK and around the world. They can be organised by individuals or by a professional lottery syndicate company like elottery.

In 2009 the elottery company introduced the Golden Ticket incentive to reward the players who stay and play month in month out with additional chances to win prizes other than just the cash prizes from the lottery itself. The system works as follows, every time a member plays in a game for 4 consecutive weeks they collect Golden tickets, at the end of a 4 week cycle the tickets are put into a hat and a number are drawn at random and awarded prizes.

The prizes so far have included: web books, cash, hardwood 8-seater garden furniture set, complete with matching seat covers and parasol… there’s a brilliant gas Bar-B-Q with all the tools to go with it… a stunning hardwood swinging garden chair… a huge portable garden swimming pool complete with ladder to climb in, filter system and cover… and a very comfortable hammock to laze in the sun. A Holiday to Centre Parcs, a London Theatre Show and overnight hotel stay for two, on a Champagne Balloon Flight, an Indoor Sky-Diving experience for two, a Micro-Light Flying Experience, sports car experience day and 4×4 off road days.

As well as the four weekly prizes there is also the annual draw, where one lucky winner gets to drive home a brand new BMW mini to keep forever. In January 2010 David Jenkins was lucky enough to win the mini, and collected it in front of many of the leading elottery affiliates.

With the odds of winning the lottery so high, regardless of if you play in an elottery syndicate, a normal lotto syndicate or by yourself, the extra prizes make it even more fun as if you don’t win a share of a huge jackpot there could be other prizes on there way to you. Even better news for elottery affiliates is that if you also play in the games and someone in your elottery syndicate business wins a prize subject to some rules you can also win a matching prize or take a cash alternative.

I am sure you will agree that makes it even more attractive to be an elottery affiliates member as well as a player. Imagine growing a elottery business with members all over the globe and everytime one of them wins a golden ticket prize, you also win the same prize. This of course is on top of the commission you get from promoting the syndicates and any prizes you may well win from playing in the syndicates yourself. Elottery has now been around for well over 6 years, and the author of this article has been involved for at least 4 of those, in this time he has learnt lots and lots about affiliate and online marketing.

The amazing power of the internet makes it easier and easier for individuals to market a range of products or services online to make profit, and to create streams of residual income. Anyone can do it, it just takes time and effort and consistency.

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Reprinted from the Central Chronicle

By Our Staff Reporter
Bhopal, May 6:

A Nigerian national had been arrested by the cyber cell of the Madhya Pradesh Police in Mumbai on charges of cheating a person each in Morena and Bhopal by telling them they ‘won’ a UK on-line lottery.

The accused Garwin Brown was arrested in Mumbai yesterday and presented in the court here today. The court sent the accused for a three-day police remand, a state police spokesperson said.

Brown had lured Morena resident Shailendra Singh Rathore by telling him that he had won a UK Lottery while taking more than Rs 4 lakh from him. This apart, the accused also collected Rs 2.45 lakh from a Bhopal resident Akhil.

The accused sent an e-mail to Mr Rathore stating that he had won a Rs 7 lakh British Pound lottery of the MSN Yahoo Award and Corporation and some persons would contact him shortly.

After sending some of the e-mails, the accused got Rathore to deposit Rs 25,000 as ‘Customs Clearance.’ Thereafter a demand was made to deposit a fee of Rs 1.37 lakh and another fee of Rs 2.60 lakh for receiving an ‘Anti Terrorism Certificate’ which Rathore deposited, the spokesperson said.

Later, Rathore was informed that the winner amount is about to be deposited into his account so he must deposit another Rs 2.60 lakh.

While getting suspicious, Rathore contacted the concerned bank and was informed of the fraud. The complaint was lodged by him on July 24 last year at the cyber cell. The cyber cell made communication with the accused and tracked his location as ‘Char Bangla’ Andheri (West).

Later, a police team from Bhopal reached Mumbai and arrested him.

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