Lottery wins involving incredible sums of money have often been correctly described as “life changing.” The changes that huge jackpots bring are almost always positive at first, but after some time, not all winners see it as a blessing.

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The Leicester Mercury has teamed up with the National Lottery to provide its readers two chances to win £20,000.

Under the scheme all one has to do is to get any National Lottery ticket for today up to October 19th, visit the Leicester Mercury competition website, and enter the 19 digit number at the top of the ticket along with contact details.

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There are stories about superstitions, hunches and astrology.  Superstitious people will be interested to hear of a player who hit a big jackpot off a Friday the 13th bet. 

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A lottery player from Teuva, Southern Ostrobothnia in Finland has a ticket that matches the seven numbers drawn in the EuroJackpot draw last Friday.  The winning ticket has snagged a jackpot worth 21.3 million euros.

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When Gaurav Sharma’s eight-year old son prompted him to gas-up at the nearest station, he was a little peeved he had to get his receipt from the station’s convenience store instead of at the gas pump. 

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What started as a sad story for five year old Gabriel Pritchard, of Lime Street, turned into joy when generous lottery winners of decided to have his stolen trampoline replaced.

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Alonso Fernandez, who called his regular bets on the lottery his hobby was one of six local New York Lottery millionaires announced last Thursday.    It has become the man’s daily habit to buy the paper and bet on the lottery each morning. 

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Colin Hopkins has just discovered just how lucky a ‘lucky dip’ can be.  A lucky dip Euromillions ticket he had bought for the Sspetember 17 draw won £256,130.

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There are some people, like me, who think that the horoscope is not worth the paper it is written on.  The unusual story behind Lynne and John Pittiglio’s £180,000 lottery win, may cause us to pause and think. 

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