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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The first jackpot winners have already struck lucky with the new UK Health Lottery. Two women have claimed the top prize of £100,000 each in the very first draw. Both win the full prize as the Health Lottery has fixed prizes for each prize tier. Both winners have chosen to stay anonymous, but one of [...]

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It could easily have gone the wrong way and ended up being one of those crazy US court cases where everybody sues anybody. Instead Kathy Scruggs, 44, walked away $25 Million richer. Kathy, who lives in Georgia, went to buy a ticket for Mega Millions. She asked for a Mega Millions quick pick, but the [...]

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Craig Henshaw was too busy travelling through Europe to realise he had become a millionaire back home in Toronto. And for 2 whole months while woodwork teacher Craig travelled with his girlfriend, the multi-million dollar lottery ticket sat there stuck to his fridge door. But he’ll never forget the day he finally got round to [...]

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Brian McCarthy, the 25 year old son of the Marriott Hotels boss Robert McCarthy, may have just become more wealthy overnight than his father. Robert McCarthy may have earned a salary of $1.2 Million in 2009, but his son just won $107 Million on the Mega Millions lottery. Brian was shopping at the Giant Food store [...]

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Possibly one of the most unusually named recent lottery winners, Kricket Slik of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada just hit the jackpot with a win of $3,489,606.80 on the Canada Lotto 649. The most notable thing however, is that she is only 21, and one of the youngest winners for a long time. Kricket actually only [...]

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The latest Mega Millions winner has now come forward, in Boston. Candido Oliveria, 47 and a father of 2, has just been announced as the winner of the jackpot from Friday 19th August. And he only bought one single quick pick ticket for the draw. The prize fund had rolled over to $32 Million. Candido [...]

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Maire McKibbin and her family syndicate of 6, just won a cool £1,134,307 on the UK Lotto. But once the money is divided up, Maire intends to give most of it away to 2 charities she supports. A 64 year old Grandmother from Kilkeel in Northern Ireland, with 7 grandchildren, Maire plans on donating the [...]

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The syndicate of 25 people from a Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle dealers in Gateshead normally only play the Friday draw. But this week they decided to use their £16 win from the previous Friday, 29th July, to buy 8 lucky dips in the Tuesday EuroMillions draw. Normally they just split the small wins between them, but [...]

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Retirement was not looking promising when they met their financial advisor last week. But now the latest Minnesota Powerball winners, Thomas and Kathleen Morris, have a new appointment with their advisor. To discuss whether they should take the annuity or lump sum option for their $228.9 Million Powerball jackpot. Thomas has already decided he will [...]

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