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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 :-)

Another Lucky Winner Uses Birthday Lottery Numbers

July 22nd, 2012

He may have won the jackpot, but he was actually lucky on two counts.

Firstly Robert Fidler is $5 Million better off, but he was also lucky not to have shared the jackpot with a bunch of other winners.

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Tales of Welsh Lottery Winners

July 19th, 2012

It’s always nice to read a good winners story. And WalesOnline have not disappointed, with stories of numerous happy winners (contrary to what some media portrays, lottery winners don’t all go bad!).

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Olympic Lottery Funding Gives Team GB The Edge

July 19th, 2012

The Olympics is costing the UK around £9.3 BILLION, of which £2.2bn has actually been provided by UK Lottery funding.

Whilst that may seem an incredible sum of money, the UK is actually set to benefit economically in excess of £10bn as a result of hosting the games.

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Best Ever Lottery Draw – The Olympic EuroMillions?

July 19th, 2012

Olympic Fever is well underway now, and EuroMillions are enjoying the build up too – they’re celebrating in the UK too with a ‘100 Guaranteed Millionaires’ draw next week.

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Police Get To Keep Stolen $1M Lottery Prize

July 16th, 2012

It’s not the usual way police departments get some extra funding, but every little helps.

The $1 Million Lotto prize was originally claimed by a 45 year old woman in Oregon.

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EuroMillions Big Winners ‘The Weirs’ Keep Giving Back

July 12th, 2012

It was a year ago today that they won the largest ever EuroMillions jackpot at an incredible £161 Million.

But the Weirds from Scotland have promised to keep on sharing in their good fortune by helping others.

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Arrest for $1M Lottery Winning Couple Accused of Stolen Ticket

July 12th, 2012

Sean Mewherter was arrested yesterday accused of stealing a $1 Million winning lottery ticket.

The announcement came direct from the North Caroline lottery company.

The ticket was claimed by Sean’s wife, Mikala Fields, but officials say Sean’s employer made the original report of the theft.

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$60 Million Quick Pick Winner Rarely Ever Plays

July 11th, 2012

Noel Peel from Seymour county in Connecticut rarely ever plays the lottery.

But he saw the lottery machine gently beckoning him while he was waiting in line for his daily bacon sandwich.

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Lottery Winner Loses £1 Million Prize

July 9th, 2012

Most of us would consider it a bad day if we realised we’d dropped a £5 note.

So we can only begin to imagine how disappointing it would be to learn we’d lost £1 Million.

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Lottery Winner Dreams Winning Numbers…

July 8th, 2012

These stories always make nice filler material in a newspaper. But they are never accompanied by any comment or opinion from the reporter.

Can you really win by dreaming about lottery numbers?

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