Now there are birthday presents, and then there are huge lottery wins to claim on a birthday.  Such luck visited Glasgow midwife Michelle Drayton-Harrold who collected her €1,000,000 win in The BiLLe Lotto, ($1.3M/£850,000) exactly on her birthday.

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Olive Scott, 66, from Kirkton, won £50,000 from the National Lottery after her ticket matched five numbers and the bonus ball in Saturday’s draw.  But in the beginning she was excited she thought she had won £53; she only learned she had won much more when her won went to a local store to claim the winnings and was advised to go straight to the lottery offices.

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This is bound to be welcome news for lottery players.  In the last Euromillions draw, which offered a jackpot of £141 million, eight bettors were able to match five numbers and one lucky star and eighteen others were able to match only the five numbers; no  ticket matched all five numbers and two lucky stars.

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Michael Carroll was just 19 when he won a huge fortune worth £9,736,131 from the lotto back in 2002.  That started ten years of wild behavior, and spending in wild abandon that ultimately left only 70p on his bank account by 2012.

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A Scotsman may have a £1 million Christmas present hidden somewhere, and he does not know it.

The National Lottery enlisted the help of the public in seeking the winner of a Euromillions Lottery Christmas day draw prize of £1 million.

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What is better than winning the lottery?  For Andrew Vaughan, it is winning the lottery twice.

The paramedic was part of a group of 25 emergency staff who shared in the Premium Bonds jackpot, leaving each with a £40,000 share.

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In the village of Rawmarsh in South Yorkshire, people are consumed by a rumor that the recent winner of a huge  £81 million jackpot may be one of them. 

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A 26-year old mum from Wirral has won the first £100,000 prize ever given by the National Lottery’s new Silver and Gold Scratchcards.  Jayne Devereux says she followed a hunch that she needed to buy a lottery ticket on her way to work.

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Richard Desmond, who runs the Health Lottery wants to bid for the license to operate the National Lottery, currently operated by rival Camelot.     This developed as after a failed try to have the Health Lottery’s license revoked, Camelot CEO Dianne Thompson had hinted they may not wish to renew the license they have held for the last 19 years.

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Cathy and Richard Brown, retired journalists from Ipswich were aboard their yacht, on a trip of a lifetime,  when they learned that they had won £6million. 

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