Eurolottery Draw: The New Major Jackpot Winners Revealed
The newest winners of the European lottery jackpot have been named. Gareth and Catherine Bull from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire became the latest winners of a massive Eurolottery jackpot on last Friday, the 20th January 2012.
Gareth is a self-employed builder and could not work because the rain prevented him completing a job. Instead he and his colleagues drove to a nearby shop and he bought a European lottery ticket using the Lucky Dip system, rather than selecting his own numbers.
As he usually does on a Friday, Gareth then checked his ticket against those listed on television. Catherine takes up the story: “He came into the bedroom as white as a sheet, the ticket was shaking in his hand and I knew soothing wasn’t right. When he tried to explain that he thought we had won, I thought he was pulling my leg.”
She was sure he was pulling her leg so they both checked the numbers together on the television and then, still not believing it, they looked online. As they looked the prize money seemed to increase. As Catherine puts it, “My head was in bits.”
Even thought the couple eventually realised the extent of their European lottery win and they had rung the lottery’s administrators, Camelot, to confirm their good luck, family life continued as normal that day: the children went to football, had a sleepover and friends came around in the evening.
What will they do with the Eurolottery money? As it happens the couple have already built their dream home but Gareth is looking to get a box at Old Trafford, home of his favourite team, Manchester United, a new Range Rover Sport, a trip to Disneyland, Florida for the whole family and perhaps a holiday villa. They have already bought an iPad with the money but they are not planning to change their way of life just yet.
Catherine, who works in health insurance, is relaxed about their good luck; “I’ve never been much of a shopper,” she says, ” although I would like a new upstairs landing carpet and I’d like to get my hair done more than twice a year!”
Clearly this is one family who considers the Eurolottery as one of the best lotteries to play!
Global Lotteries: Christmas Excitement
The period prior to Christmas is always an exciting time in all the global lotteries and this year is no exception.
The Brazilian Mega Sena lottery offers the Mega de Virada draw on 31 December 2011. This massive draw offers an estimated jackpot of R$ 170,000,000 or $94,000,000 for matching all the numbers selected.
Play the Mega de Virada draw on theLotter.com now and you will get a buy one get one free promotion too.
As already mentioned on this website, the European lottery is determined to produce fifty millionaires through it’s Millionaire Raffle before Christmas. This means that the Eurolottery draw on Friday 23 December must give out 25 Millionaire Raffle prizes.
Every Eurolottery ticket bought in the UK is automatically entered into the Millionaire Raffle, given a unique number and each winning number drawn will give £1 million prize.
This prize is given in addition to any other prize the player may have won in the draw.
A spokesperson for Camelot, the administrator of the European lottery in the UK says “Euromillions Millionaire Raffle has already contributed more than 166 millionaires to the total of 2700 created by the National Lottery to date, now a further 50 millionaires are guaranteed to join that exclusive club before Christmas.”
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The latest winners of the Eurolottery draw jackpot went public yesterday and revealed they had thought carefully about what to do about the money.
Dave and Angela Dawes from Wisbech in Cambridgeshire won £101,203,600.70 in the European lottery a week ago – the third biggest win in the United Kingdom – on only their third attempt.
Dave, a shift supervisor for Premier Foods, and Angela, a volunteer for the British Heart Foundation, were watching television when the results of the Eurolottery draw came on screen. “We got our tickets out and watched in shock as, one by one, the numbers came up on the line I’d chosen. We couldn’t believe it!”
By then it was too late to ring Camelot (the European Lottery organizers in the UK) so the couple had to wait until the morning – needless to say neither got any sleep that night!
The couple have been together for four years and were intending to get married next year so their wedding plans have suddenly become more ambitious. The Eurolottery win has given them other ideas too; properties in London and Portugal as well as a trip to Las Vegas and Switzerland are on the list. Dave loves watching Chelsea play football so would like to get a season ticket.
But the couple’s plans are not all selfish. They want to help family and friends become financially secure and Angela’s father has always wanted a 1926 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost so they plan to buy one for him – even though he cannot drive!
Previously Dave and Angela have not been able to afford to get married and live in a small one bedroomed flat. It looks like the European lottery may have changed that.
Eurolottery: Skydiver Jumps With Ticket
When George Traykov found he had won £1 million in the European lottery he found an unusual way to celebrate.
Mr Traykov, aged 43 years and originally from Bulgaria, is a keen skydiver and a former member of the Bulgarian national skydiving team and decided to celebrate his good fortune by jumping from a plane with the winning ticket.
The father of one from Ilford, Essex only checked his European lottery ticket after two further draws had been made. He discovered his win and still coolly went to an early shift at The Princess Grace private hospital in London before contacting Camelot, the lottery’s organisers.
His only use for the money so far is to pay for his twelve year old daughter to also have sky diving training. Until now she has had to make do with training at a wind tunnel in Milton Keynes.
See more about this Eurolottery winner jumping for joy on the London24.com website.
Eurolottery: Surprised Millionaire Raffle Winner
Not surprisingly we usually hear stories about winners of the European lottery jackpot but forget that other prizes given out are also changing lives.
Adam Derbi from Cardiff is a self-employed cab driver and lives with his wife, Natalia. He plays the European lottery regularly and received an email after the Eurolottery draw on Tuesday 5 July this year telling him he had won £5.10 by matching two numbers.
He logged on to his computer to take part in the draw on the following Friday but couldn’t find his prize listed. He started to search the screen. “When I scrolled down I saw that I’d won the £1 million as well. I started shaking and it all seemed surreal. Natalia was right there but she didn’t believe me at first; it’s only now really sinking in.”
Adam had won the Millionaire Raffle in the European lottery, a prize given in addition to any prize already won in the draw.
Although it wasn’t the top prize the Eurolottery draw offers, the money will make a big difference to the couple’s lives. They have five children and the first thing they did was to have a celebratory meal for all close family members. Like so many winners, Adam is sensible about the win: “It’s a case of allowing the money to give us some security and our children a decent start in life.”
The family is looking to move out of their rented home to buy a good house and a seven-seater car. Adam is also looking to indulge his favourite hobby – playing golf – a bit more too.
We wish the family all good luck for the future. It just shows you don’t have to win the jackpot to benefit from the European lottery.
Play Lotteries Online: Cheeky Video
Apparently it was National Nude Week in the UK on July 14th (how did we miss that one?). Anyway, those people at that great way to play lotteries online, Wintrillions.com, decided to make a suitably cheeky promotional video.
Enjoy the video on this page.
Lots of people are taking the opportunity to play lotteries online, it can be great fun and there are plenty of global lotteries to choose from. You can either buy your tickets online or join a syndicate.
One lady recently won £250 000 playing the lotteries on the Wintrillions site.
And don’t forget, each of the lottery sites also offer attractive affiliate schemes too, so you can even make money by recommending your friends.
Why not browse the opportunities available on this site to see which suits you?
Whatever you do, we at UKLotteryDraw.com wish you the very best of luck!
Eurolottery: Winning Couple In Hiding
Whenever I hear of somebody winning a huge amount of money on the European lottery I always hope they manage to stay anonymous so they have a chance to do something constructive with their good fortune. For this reason I was a little sad to see the recent winners of the Eurolottery draw, Colin and Chris Weir, going public about their £161 million win.
It now seems I was right. News reports indicate that the couple from Ayrshire have gone into hiding, possibly abroad.
Inevitably they have been inundated with begging letters for money. The couple had decided to go public with their win so they would not have to lie to friends and family as that seemed the simplest thing to do.
However a spokesman from Camelot stated the couple did not want any more publicity and that the lottery organizers were not at liberty to comment on their whereabouts.
Here is the lesson: if you are lucky enough to win either the European lottery or the British National Lottery make sure you tick the box that asks if you want to stay anonymous. A couple won £113 million in the Eurolottery in October 2010 and nobody knows who or where they are. Winners in other countries even opt to wear masks at the press conference but it would seem sensible to not even hold a press conference but to walk quietly away and resume your life.
It’s not the money that destroys your life, it’s the fame.
Eurolottery: Ayrshire Couple Win Record Jackpot
Earlier today the couple that had won the recent £161 million jackpot in the European lottery held a press conference in their hometown of Largs, Ayrshire.
Chris and Colin Weir were very sensible about their good fortune but didn’t sleep for two nights once they realized they had won. They checked the numbers from the television in the evening and had to wait until the next morning to register their win. Together they watched the sun rise before Chris dialed Camelot, the lottery administrators.
Both partners have had serious health problems in recent years that had prevented them working so the good luck is welcome. However they are not letting it all to get to their heads; Chris told reporters “We are not flashy people” and husband Colin observed, “With great wealth come great responsibility.”
Ideas for their future include travelling. Chris and Colin have always wanted to see the Great Wall of China and Ayers Rock and explore the art galleries of the world. The only other commitment they made was to buy homes for their two grown-up children.
We send very best wishes to the lucky couple for the future.
See more on the story about the Eurolottery winners on the BBC website.