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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Million Dollar Marine
May 20th, 2011
Those of you who are children of the 70’s may remember the 6 Million Dollar Man.
Well now we have the Million Dollar Marine.
This US marine didn’t need rebuilding however.
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Cisneros Mega Millions Winners Give Back To Kids
May 19th, 2011
Jacki and Gilbert Cisneros already made a bunch of charity donations and set up a scholarship fund at the University of Southern California.
But the generous lottery winning couple are back in the news again, with another million dollar donation.
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Analytical Engineer Wins $27 Million Jackpot
May 18th, 2011
Kendall Warren, 61, just became the latest big Mega Millions winner, after matching all 6 numbers in Friday’s draw.
He actually didn’t realise he had won until Monday – the $27 Million dollar ticket just sat in his wallet all weekend.
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Lucky Lexington Landscaper Scratches A Million
May 17th, 2011
Morris Settle was a landscape gardener from Lexington.
Now he’s a very lucky Lexington landscaper, as he just won the $1 Million top prize in the Cash Spectacular’ instant scratch off game from the North Carolina Education Lottery.
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Son Finds 5 Month Old Lottery Ticket Worth $1 Million
May 12th, 2011
One of the best ways to win the lottery, is to actually check your tickets after you buy them.
Father and son Robert and John Moffatt bought their ticket for the Canada Lotto Max back in December.
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Irish Family Are Quick Pick Lottery Winners
May 12th, 2011
An Irish family from Galway have just found themselves €5,076,220 richer after Saturday nights UK Lotto draw.
Their quick pick ticket was the only one to match all 6 numbers, leaving them thrilled to discover they had claimed the entire jackpot.
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30 Years Of Quick Picks Turn Truck Driver Into Mega Millionaire
May 10th, 2011
Ronnie Orender was just a typical guy a drove a truck, until last weeks Mega Millions that is.
He’d played the lottery for over 30 years.
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New EuroMillions Tuesday Draw – £85M Tonight
May 10th, 2011
The all new EuroMillions Tuesday draw makes it’s debut tonight, in a blaze of publicity feturing Kimberly Walsh, from the group Girls Aloud.
Tonight also marks the start of the other EuroMillions changes, which include a new lowest prize level of £2.70 for matching two main balls.
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Hospital Syndicate Hit Jackpot – But Bosses Banned The Bubbly
May 9th, 2011
A 30 strong syndicate of women from Lady Home Hospital have been revealed as the UK Lotto jackpot winners from Saturday 30th April.
The hospital workers were presented with a cheque for £1,339,367 in front of the hospital in Douglas, Lanarkshire, while staff and patients looked on from the windows above.
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Miner Hits £1 Million Pay Dirt
May 5th, 2011
Thomas Harwood, 72, was thanking his late mother for his £1 Million win on Friday.
The retired miner and grandfather of four hit the EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle prize – after he had been to visit his mother’s grave:
I went to visit my mum and dad’s graves on Friday and I took some flowers as it would have been mum’s birthday.
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