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Teen £1m Lotto Winner Thought She’d Won £70
Posted by admin on Aug-17-2010
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.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Teenage-Lottery-Winner-Stacey-Bywater-Wins-11m-In-National-Draw-At-The-Age-Of-18/Article/201008215681290?f=rss
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Millennium Country Park: UK’s best Environment Project
Posted by admin on Jul-28-2010
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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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/local/threecounties/hi/front_page/newsid_8859000/8859871.stm
Published: 2010/07/27 15:37:13 GMT
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Letter Outlining Britain’s First Lottery Up For Auction
Posted by admin on Jun-14-2010
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.
http://www.lotterypost.com/news/215804
‘We are not £84m Lotto winners!’
Posted by admin on Jun-11-2010
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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Lottery Tees Up A £10k Boost For Aberfoyle Church
Posted by admin on Jun-4-2010
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/
Artists in a bid for success with different type of draw
Posted by admin on May-30-2010
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
Lottery Shake Up Sees Contracts Lost
Posted by admin on May-27-2010
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
http://www.national-lottery.com/news/lottery-shake-up-sees-contracts-lost.asp
Lotto man wants dustbin job back
Posted by admin on May-20-2010
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?”
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/norfolk/8692475.stm
Published: 2010/05/19 17:10:38 GMT
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What A Lott I’ve Got…Not!
Posted by admin on May-19-2010
Originally published by the Scottish Sun.
By Nick Sharpe on 19 May 2010
A CLEANER told last night how she sparked a Lotto frenzy – after wrongly believing she had bagged a stunning £84million jackpot.
Sadie McGhee, 65, almost collapsed with shock after reading out her “winning” EuroMillions ticket numbers to stunned workmates.
Within minutes, news of her amazing “windfall” had spread like wildfire round one of Scotland’s biggest hospitals.
And soon Sadie’s name was cropping up on internet chatrooms as word got round she was now apparently mega-rich.
It was only after the shaken gran was driven home that her hubby John, 67, checked the ticket and revealed she had won NOTHING – because she’d been looking at a RESULTS slip.
But last night the couple insisted they are relieved they didn’t win the record sum.
Sadie explained her phone had not stopped ringing, people approached her in the streets to ask about it and her grandkids were hassled at school. Sadie, of Mount Florida, Glasgow, said: “Honestly, I am glad I didn’t won. The feeling of thinking I had won £84million was awful.”
Retired joiner John added: “It really worried me that I might answer the door to someone with a knife demanding money.”
Sadie told how the frenzy started during a canteen debate at the city’s Victoria Infirmary.
She said: “Some of the girls I work with had heard no one had claimed the big win from Friday’s Euro lottery.
“So I said it might be me, and fished out of my bag what I thought was my ticket.
“They read out the numbers – and I started panicking.
“I honestly thought I’d won. I was shouting and screaming.
“I lost my voice over it and I was sick with excitement.
“I was in such a state that my boss had to take me home.When I got in I just shouted, ‘John, we’ve won the lottery.’
“He took the ticket off me, looked at it, then said, ‘Don’t be so daft.’John told me I had been looking at the wrong slip.
“But I don’t know how the mistake was made. There must have been another seven people in the hospital who checked it and they all thought it was a winner.”
Camelot confirmed this week that a UK-based winner has now come forward to claim the bumper £84,451,321 prize, which is Britain’s biggest ever.
They would not confirm if the cash was paid to an individual or a syndicate.
But Sadie – who has bought a ticket for every EuroMillions draw – told how she is now relieved not to be picking up a cheque for £84million.
She said: “At the point when I believed I had won, I kept thinking about what a ridiculous amount of money it was.
“It was a horrible feeling and I didn’t like it. I never want to feel that again.
“Anyway, I have everything I want.
“If I had won, I would have given the money away.”
Sadie explained that three years ago she bagged £2,000 with five Lotto numbers.
But she gave the cash to her family and friends.
Hubby John added: “At the end of the day, this was a lot of fuss over nothing.”
nicksharpe@the-sun.co.uk
http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/2978370/What-a-lott-Ive-gotnot-Gran-in-84m-jackpot-mix-up.html
> Footnote: Camelot report the real winner of the top prize has requested to stay anonymous.