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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 :-)

Shropshire Couple Are Latest New Years EuroMillions Millionaires

January 15th, 2013

James and Sue Schofield from Shropshire are the latest winners to be announced from the UK’s EuroMillions New Years special draw.

The bonus draw, only for players in the UK, created an additional 25 millionaires in the New Years Day draw.

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Spanish “El Nino” Spread The $1.1 Billion Cheer

January 15th, 2013

Most lottery fans outside of Spain only know of the big Christmas El Gordo draw. The one with the crazy prize pool of billions.

But the January ‘El Nino’ draw is almost as big.

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£148M Adrian Bayford Sad To Close Music Shop Due To Agressive Beggars

January 14th, 2013

Big lottery winners often think they can keep their old lives and carry on as usual.

But when you’re a particularly BIG winner, and your name and photos have been plastered all over the national papers, it’s just not likely anymore.

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Played EuroMillions By Mistake And Won £1 Million

January 13th, 2013

Claire and Scott, 30, actually wanted a scratch card. But their friend bought them a EuroMillions ticket by mistake.

Superstitious Claire said she had been nervous about bad luck after being told that taking her Christmas decoration down early was considered unlucky.

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Leicestershire Rail Worker Scoops £244,437 EuroMillions Win

January 12th, 2013

Mark Steele, 50, just claimed a £244,437 win with EuroMillions.

He’s played since the lottery first began, and used the ages of his family to choose his numbers.

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Rocky & Bob Split a Powerball Million

January 12th, 2013

Bob regularly went into the Flanagan Bart’s Supermarket while on business. And saw an endless stream of Powerball ticket sales being handled by Rakesh Patel (“Rocky”).

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Aaron Smith Claims Another Euromillions Christmas £1 Million Bonus

January 11th, 2013

Aaron, 40, from Swanage just became the latest of the 25 new millionaires created by the UK’s bonus EuroMillions draw from Christmas day.

Amusingly, and perhaps prompted by the recent Nolan affair, Aaron actually posted a couple of ‘fake’ winners pics to Facebook – as they were dressed up and drinking champagne for a Christmas dinner.

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Scottish Family Win £1M in EuroMillions New Year Special

January 10th, 2013

Barry and Roberta Little from Dumfries have joined the list of £1 Million winners in the UK’s New Year special EuroMillions draw.

And the win could not have arrived at a better time.

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Washington Lottery Gives Out Wrong Numbers

January 9th, 2013

If you checked your tickets online for Washington Lottery’s Veteran’s Raffle – make sure you check them again now!

Unfortunately somebody messed up at lottery HQ and published the wrong winning numbers on their website!

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Kansas Winner Had To Borrow Car To Claim Win

January 9th, 2013

The house painter in his 40’s didn’t have a car, so had to borrow one from a friend to be able to drive himself to the lottery headquarters in Topeka to claim his prize.

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