Justine Laycock and Nigel Page are the lucky winners in Britain’s biggest lottery – their prize equals £56m. As it turned out EuroMillions jackpot of £113m was shared with another lucky lottery ticket purchased in Spain.
When Page logged into his online lottery account, he received the “Congratulations” message. The couple hasn’t decided yet what to do with £56m, but they told the press that helping less fortunate was on top of their priority list.
Justine Laycock and Nigel Page have three children from previous marriage. The couple said that they are going to purchase a bigger house for their family.
Page has an exciting hobby – skydiving – and thanks to the lottery he has an opportunity to establish his own skydiving centre. Good luck Nigel!
A teenage student from Cumbria was bitten on the bottom by her dog as she screamed in delight at winning £7m on the EuroMillions lottery. She was one of 15 people who scooped a slice of Friday’s £102m jackpot. I didn’t know what to do with my ticket, so after hiding it in my bra and jewellery box, I settled for my gym bag until it was confirmed I was a winner.”
Fullagar, of Ravenglass, said Brock, a Parson Jack Russell terrier, took a bite after becoming unsettled by her wild celebrations. The 18-year-old, who hid her winning ticket in her bra, is organising an Egyptian holiday and wants a Ford Ka. Miss Fullagar was due to start a law degree next year Miss Fullagar, who is on a gap year before starting a law degree in 2009, said:
“At first I thought I had matched three numbers, so I couldn’t believe it when I realised I had the five main numbers plus one Lucky Star. “My mum called the National Lottery Line and it was only then that I realised I had won a share of the jackpot. We were both screaming so loudly that my dog, Brock, didn’t know what was happening and bit me on the bottom.
A lucky (or unlucky) $6.6 million Lotto jackpot winner have had their names revealed in the USA after a judge ruled in favor of the state lottery that lottery jackpot winners cannot now claim their winnings anonymously.
Last week after over 10 months of a temporary injunction that sealed the identity of Michele and Michael Villegas was supposed to be lifted, the names were released to the public. Whilst the couple fought for privacy, the state lottery board won their day in court and the names were publicized.
One of the assumed reasons for the request for anonymity and the subsequent legal battle is that the amount that the couple won is believed to be a local record.
Picture the scene, you beat the odds and win the lottery jackpot. Now imagine this scene, you have no idea you’ve won!
Strange as it sounds, every year millions of dollars of lottery / loto winnings go unclaimed around the world. In all of the worlds strange twists of fate, in my mind this ranks the highest. You could be living in the city or the country side and if you had just double checked your ticket or saved it from your jeans pocket before putting them in wash, you could be sitting pretty on a large sum of cash. But for many this is not meant to be.
Its been reported that last year in the USA alone more than $600 million in lottery winnings were unclaimed. Enough to salvage the average high street bank
In California, $29 million went unclaimed during the 2006-07 fiscal year. And it could soon go up an additional $166,599.
In American Lottery News, an Ottawa lottery player became the lucky winner of the Super 7o lotery draw winning a cool $2.5 Million Jackpot. The winner, Carolyn Tweede has become Ottawa’s latest millionaire after winning her jackpot last week.
Carolyne said she buys a single ticket every week and has done for quite a few years. Eventually her patience paid off and the Ottawa resident finally saw her numbers come rolling in with her her first win ever.
Mrs. Tweede, 62, said there will be no major lifestyle changes for her and her husband. “We’re just gonna help our kids and invest it,” she said. “We’ll maybe take a trip or two,” she laughed.
Seven years ago, Mrs. Tweede retired from The Ottawa Hospital, where she worked as a nurse.
She plans to continue working at her job in a doctor’s office.
This is both a heart warming and sad story of a lottery winner from the Florida State Lotto
On September 3, 1988, Sheelah Ryan of Winter Springs made Florida Lottery history when she won the then largest Lottery prize ever awarded to an individual player. Ryan the 10th FLORIDA LOTTO™ winner won $55.16 million when she chose the numbers, 3, 5, 19, 20, 27 and 35.
With her Lottery winnings, Ryan developed the Sheelah Ryan Foundation Inc., a charity that helps many people in Seminole County – senior citizens, abused spouses, and women and children struggling to survive. The foundation also provides scholarships to students in Seminole County schools.
In 1994, at age 69, Ryan lost her fight with cancer. However, through the efforts of her family members, close friends and funds provided by her Lottery winnings, Ryan’s philanthropic vision lives on.
Read more winners stories from the Florida state lottery on their website
Proof that winning the lottery does not need to change your life (that much). What would you do if you won £6.9 Million in a single lottery payout?
Read more stories at www.thelotter.com or please visit our Lottery Social Network and share your lottery winning stories. It doesn’t matter if you’ve won 10 or a million dollars / pounds / euros, if you’ve won you know the feeling of winning, share your experiences with the world. A train driver, who won a £6.9 Million (US$12.8 Million) lottery fortune playing Euro Millions, has booked a return ticket and gone back to work on the railways.
“After the win I went on holiday to various resorts abroad but I couldn’t see myself doing that for the rest of my life. We went to Greece, Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Spain but after a few months of holidays I was itching to get back to work.”
Prance failed a medical to return as a train driver but was so desperate to work that he retrained for another job with Arriva Trains and now works as a £600-a-week resource manager. “I was disappointed to be told that I could not go back as a driver because my hearing wasn’t 100%, but then they offered a job in the offices and I was thrilled to take it because it meant I was working with trains and my old workmates again.”
Prance and wife Gillian, also 50, left their terraced house in Splott, Cardiff, and now live in a £64,000 luxury caravan in the seaside resort of Trecco Bay, Porthcawl.
Prance, father-of-three, won £6.9 Million in October last year, a share of a massive £88 Million (US$163 Million) Euro Millions Jackpot.
“I could have bought a holiday home anywhere in the world, but we love our caravans more. I’ve been coming to Porthcawl since I was a little boy and always dreamed of having my own luxury caravan there. I feel so lucky.”
The couple gave their three-bedroom house in Splott, Cardiff, to daughter Sarah, 19, and paid off the mortgages of sons Lee, 30, and Ian, 27.
What needs to be said here? not much, every day of the week, every week of the year, someone becomes a lottery jackpot winner. How do we know, simple, we track every international lottery game and give you the chance to take part.
We’ve compiled some true lottery winners stories and put them into a cool squidoo lottery lens so you can read more, laugh at the videos and dream of winning yourself.
