All the latest interesting lottery news. As you may have guessed, we pretty much love lottery games and are borderline obsessed with them. So we spend far too much time reading about the lottery to bring you an easy to access summary of all the most interesting lottery news stories. Enjoy :-)
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Wife Convinced Husband To Buy Winning Ticket
May 11th, 2013
Chad Klepaychuk, could have missed out on a $15.8 lottery jackpot if not for his wife. He really planned to buy entries for the 6/49 lottery draw on 13 April, but had initially changed his mind.
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National Lottery Price Rise Winners And Losers
May 11th, 2013
The cost of entries to the National Lottery will double from its current, £1 to £2 in September.
While the lotto says the change is a result of a survey indicating most players want more chances to win big money, after the change, jackpots will be bigger but some of the payouts will be even lower than it is now.
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£100k Win Ends Long Wait For Honeymoon
May 11th, 2013
29 years after marrying at the young age of eighteen, Dawn Humphreys can finally afford to go on a honeymoon with her husband. She is the latest winner of a £100k jackpot from the Health Lottery.
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$14M Lotto Win Was Meant To Be
May 8th, 2013
Thuan Le’s $14 million Superlotto Plus win was destined to happen. The single mother of four boys credits her win to a lucky “mistake” when she put $6 in the ticket machine instead of the usual $5.
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Father And Daughter Share £3.9m Lotto Win
May 7th, 2013
Thomas Foden and his daughter Irene Harper, won a share of the UK’s first Lotto quadruple rollover jackpot in October 2012. The father and daughter shared a £3,909,990 windfall.
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£1m EuroMillions Prize Won By Siblings From Sunderland
May 6th, 2013
John Summervillle and sister Margaret Caffry, have finally won something big after taking turns betting on their number combinations.
They were disappointed initially, when the machine indicated the store was not allowed to pay out.
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Lottery Win Saves Man’s House
May 6th, 2013
A lawyer told a 56 year old former pipeline worker from the Philippines, that his only chance of repaying a P300,000 loan, with his house as collateral, was to win the lottery.
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Lottery Officials Monitor Honesty Of Store Clerks
May 6th, 2013
Because of a few cases where store clerks have been accused of defrauding lottery players out of their winnings, the lottery recently conducted yet another round of monitoring.
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Lottery Winner And Wife To Go On A Late Honeymoon
May 5th, 2013
When Albert Totari bought a Powerball lottery entry on April 13th, he never expected it to bring him enough money for a honeymoon with his wife of three months.
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Portuguese Wins €32 million Euromillions Jackpot
May 4th, 2013
A Portuguese national, who resides in Lagos, Algarve, has won a €32 million jackpot from the Euromillions. The state gets to keep 20% of the total as tax, leaving the winner with a clean €25.9 million.
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