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.

He may be worth an estimated £200 Million already, but music executive and talent show boss Simon Cowell is not averse to the odd lottery ticket.

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.

The countdown is on for a missing millionaire who bought a lottery ticket in Stoke-on-Trent in the UK.

The ticket holder won £1Million in the EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle draw held Friday 12th November 2010.

He was on his way to get a haircut when he unfortunately ran out of gas. This day was not going well.

The man from Abbeville, South Carolina, then found himself having to walk all of the rest of the way into town.

The odds may be a fairly awful 1-in-195 million of winning, but someone always wins eventually.

And this time Bill Swanson is the lucky man from Hoosier.

It’s not every day you win $400,000 on a scratch card.

But it’s somewhat rarer still to simply give it all away.

That’s exactly what Aisha Prater’s father did after winning the top prize on the Georgia Lottery ’20X The Money’ game.

It’s tough being unemplyed, especially when your unemployment benefit is just about to run out.

So the timing of this win could not have been any better for 28 year old Megan Gatlin, a former health care worker.

Fresh home from basic training in Fort Lee, Cody Fairey was already packing for Fort Bliss.

But it was whilst watching a hockey game with his brother and father, that he scratched off the Minnesota Hold ‘Em ticket.

In perhaps this months most crazy lottery story, a Baltimore man is accused of laundering drug money by buying winning lottery tickets for cash.

Steven Blackwell is alleged to have bought and claimed for 3 winning lottery tickets over a 5 week period.