UK

Get the latest stories about UK lottery winners, and UK Lotto news. The lottery is hugely popular in the UK, and there are a whole range of games to suit every player. You can read more about the UK’s games and find Lotto syndicates here.

Lottery Winner Leaves Glamour Behind To Farm Pigs

February 20th, 2015

One former lottery winner was a lot more stylish before her win.  Sue Herdmanwas a well-dressed hairdresser before she won a £1.2 million five years ago. 

[Read more →]

Category: News

£250K National Lottery Winner To Buy New Home

February 17th, 2015

rsz_nursery_assistantNursery assistant Claire Markswas on her way to a training when she decided to stop at a shop and bought a £2 Celebration scratch card.  She scratched it off in her car, discovered she had won £250,000 and immediately verified it at the store. 

[Read more →]

Category: News

Group Of Mortgage Advisers Bag £1.14 Million Jackpot

February 16th, 2015

The latest syndicate to post a significant lottery win is composed of 17 mortgage advisers from a Royal Bank of Scotland mortgage office in Greenock.

Their win can be attributed to regularly playing as a syndicate since 2009. 

[Read more →]

Category: News

This Week’s Top Stories

February 16th, 2015

Lottery Stories Of The Week

A woman cleaning her home won enough to clear her debts, and a couple must not have been expecting to win much so they erroneously thought they won a smaller amount.

[Read more →]

Category: News

Truck Numbers Lead To £1 Million Prize

February 16th, 2015

driver winsLottery players are using significant dates, rabbits’ feet, dreams, fortune cookies and horoscopes to find the lucky combination which will bring them riches.  Odd as it may seem lorry driver Stephen Chick tried playing the numbers on the plates of trucks he was driving behind, and won!

[Read more →]

Category: News

Couple Scoop £163000 Lottery Jackpot

February 12th, 2015

retired  coupleBill and Stella North won a sizable amount from the lottery but an error made them think the win was a lot smaller.

Stella bought National Lottery tickets and asked her son to check the result online on the night of the draw. 

[Read more →]

Category: News

Bus Driver Used Lucky Penny To Win £1.8 Million

February 6th, 2015

Bus driver Sean Lloyd found a penny on the floor outside the shop and felt it would bring him luck, so he bought a lottery ticket. 

[Read more →]

Category: News

Lottery Winner Turns Hog Farmer

February 5th, 2015

pig farmerIn 2010 Sue Herdman was a hairdresser who was always perfectly groomed.  Then she decided to follow a Tarot reader’s advice to buy a lottery ticket and promptly won £1.2 million.

[Read more →]

Category: News

This Week’s Top Stories

January 27th, 2015

Lottery Stories Of The Week

This week, two syndicates bagged significant wins as a group of pub owners and regulars shared a million pound win, and five workers in West Virginia share a million dollars they won on their very first attempt to play as a group. 

[Read more →]

Category: News

13 Workers To Share £1 Million Euromillions Win

January 24th, 2015

lucky 13Good things indeed come to those who wait.  A lottery playing syndicate originally had twenty members when they started ten weeks ago, but seven members dropped out. 

[Read more →]

Category: News