A man from Cranbrook volunteered a couple of hours manning a Christmas Kettle for the Salvation Army at the Canadian Tire outlet.  After his shift, he went to the mall and bought a Lotto 6/49 ticket and promptly forgot about it, but not before jokingly telling the clerk that he may make a donation there. 

A big group of Scots ventilation workers have hit the Lottery for a cool million pounds.  A laundry man is the latest winner of the lottery’s Millionaire Maker draw.

Kevin Jones and  his wife Michelle were in very dire straits early this year.  They had just returned from Spain after losing all they had in a burglary.  

El Gordo is famous for having the biggest prize fund of all lotteries in the whole world – a total of  2.31 billion euros ($2.4 billion) this year!  

Wales is preparing to launch its own lottery next year.

The lottery project will be developed by a Cardiff based non-profit making community interest company called Wil Enterprises.  

Clacton laundryman Iain Cockburn had a habit of buying lottery tickets and getting them checked at the same store.  Over time the tellers would either advise him that he’d won nothing or congratulate him for winning a small amount.  

The lottery has spread some Christmas cheer to a sixteen strong Scottish workers syndicate.  The group, who call themselves the MJV syndicate, is composed of workers from MJ Ventilation in Coupar Angus, from where they took their name.

A lucky bin man carried bags of toys for a change as he delivered Christmas gifts to children at the Lagan Village Youth & Community Centre.  

Big-hearted Gillian Bayford, who won a £148 million lotto jackpot back in 2012, has just found another way to prove her generosity.  The owner of A&G Properties has just bought and refurbished a house Carnoustie High Street specifically suited for the needs of Blake McMillan.

There are some pessimists among us who subscribe to the idea that no good deed goes unpunished. That somehow, doing the right thing ends up making life difficult for good people.