Wales is generally not the first place you think of as the home of pro cage fighting. But that’s where new EuroMillions millionaire Gavin Davies lives, in Neath, South Wales. Gavin, 29, didn’t even realise he had won until 2 weeks after the 27th December draw – as he forgot to check the extra raffle [...]

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Daniel Bruckner only played the Mega Millions occasionally. But with a headline jackpot of $206 Million he figured it was worth risking a few dollars. The 35 year old financial analyst has now been revealed as the official sole jackpot winner of the Mega Millions draw for 27th December. Which means that after taxes he [...]

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It must be every generation Y teenagers dream, to start life out by just casually winning the lottery. The rest of us know that life just doesn’t come that easy. But it has for Eloise Hutchinson who has just been revealed as one of the three UK Lotto winners from the draw held on New [...]

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It was an embarassing week for the Illinois lottery, when winners started complaining that their winnings checks were not being honoured by the bank! In all 85 winners with winnings totalling over $159,000 were affected. The Illinois Lottery were quick to point out that the checks had not actually bounced, because there were sufficient funds [...]

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It was less than a year ago the syndicate of 16 workers from Montebello Unified School District won $12 Million on the Lotto. And they just struck it lucky again, this time from playing Mega Millions. They aren’t celebrating quite as loudly this time around however. After all, the group only won $262,743 this time. [...]

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Kathleen Crewe kept her winning lottery ticket in what she thought was a very safe place. Being somewhat more careful than many lottery players, she not only tucked her ticket safely inside a thermos flask. But then went on to put the thermos flask inside a flame proof bag! The ticket was worth $7 Million. [...]

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It’s been a typically insane ending to the ‘crazy as usual’ business of the Spanish El Gordo lottery draw. El Gordo 2011 did not disappoint, with the Spanish queueing around street corners right up to the very last minute to buy their tickets. Reports of security guards drafted in for crowd control to beat back [...]

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Lily Gallagher, 60, just won €5.1 Million  on the Irish lottery on Saturday. But she says she’ll wait till son Anthony, 31, comes home before she collects her winnings. Anthony left for Australia earlier this year as plumbing work had all but dried up in Co Louth where he lived. But bizarrely he heard about [...]

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On Monday morning Wally Shihadeh was at the Louisiana lottery HQ, picking up his winnings of $709,106. But at the same time he was picking up his winners check, the Sheriff’s department was at his store in Minden collecting evidence to charge him with credit card fraud. By Wednesday Wally found himself a rich man [...]

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Dave and Angie Dawes have been revealed as the winners of last Friday’s enormous EuroMillions jackpot. The couple who proved to be the sole winners have already received payment of £101,203,600.70 to their new exclusive private banking account. They have moved out of their £70 per week 1 bedroom flat in Wisbech, and plan to [...]

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