A mum from Dundee had unknowingly carried a million pounds in her handbag for days. Shaheen Akhtar only remembered to check a ticket she had bought from The Newsagents at 125 Albert Street, Dundee when she spotted it in her bag.

This week lots of people from  all over won large and even larger amounts they are all happy with. This includes an NZ couple who posted a huge $27 million win on Powerball.

George Gaulke of Round Lake finally found lottery luck after he purchased an Illinois Lottery a $2 million Extravaganza! ticket for $20. Scratching the ticket revealed that it was a $2 million winner.

A New Zealand couple have been playing the lottery and dreaming of what they will do if they win.  Now it’s time to put those dreams into action.

The lottery is there to fulfill people’s dreams. Yet when a people are visited by significant prize amounts, they find it hard to believe. Such was the case the Jordan Ross and Jayde Hicks discovered they had won a $200,000 prize off an instant ticket.

A Bronx bartender and a pub landlord in the  UK are drunk with lottery success after the bartender won $7 million and the pub landlord £1M.  

It took awhile before sisters Lucy Dixon and her sister Annie managed to purchase a winning lottery ticket. In their excitement however, the winning ticket ripped in half.

Until recently retiree Rose Ditano was most regular lottery players. She has been playing a combination for about thirty years without much success until now.

Ditano usually plays her regular number and a quick pick on Mega Millions, which was what she bought from the Whistle Stop on Old Franklin Turnpike in Union Hall for Friday night’s draw.

Spring cleaning requirements have lead a couple who operate a pub to a huge lotto jackpot prize!

Were your typical  pub landlord and landlady – working long hours and never seeming to be able to take a day off.

A pub syndicate composed of seven friends from  Saltburn-by-the-Sea in North Yorkshire almost lost their chance when their ticket was almost forgotten in a plant pot.