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A pair of gardening enthusiasts from Yorkshire have gone public after collecting their £1.3 million UK National Lottery jackpot prize money.
Lance and Marie Cram – who are 48 and 46 respectively – revealed they bought a ticket for the British draw on a whim while out purchasing onion seeds to sow in their allotment.
Mr Cram – who is a plumber – said he and his green-fingered other half did not think twice about the ticket until after the draw took place last month.
He admitted that one day he had been sent home early from work due to the bad weather and decided to check the lottery results online before going to watch a rugby match with his friends to see his local team, Hull, play the Wakefield Wildcats.
When he had double checked the numbers, Mr Cram said he could not believe what had happened.
“I shouted ‘flippin’ ‘eck Marie’ and called her from the kitchen to take a look,” the plumber stated, adding that they then rang up the lottery headquarters to confirm their good fortune.
The Crams bided their time before claiming the money and waited for their eldest son to come back from university before telling both their children the good news.
After telling Ms Cram’s elderly parents about their jackpot win, the whole clan went to a local restaurant to toast their success.
The reality of the situation is still sinking in for the Crams, but they have made some plans.
Mr Cram commented: “The best thing for us is that is has bought us the luxury of being able to spend much more quality time together. We’re planning lots of long Sunday afternoons in our allotment and weekends away.”
His other half – who is a teaching assistant – wants to replace her old car and take the family to Florida on a holiday, while they also have the peace of mind of being able to support their sons financially.
Fans of the UK National Lottery could find they are just as lucky as the Crams on Saturday’s draw – and they can play online on theLotter.
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A pair of gardening enthusiasts from Yorkshire have gone public after collecting their £1.3 million UK National Lottery jackpot prize money.
Lance and Marie Cram – who are 48 and 46 respectively – revealed they bought a ticket for the British draw on a whim while out purchasing onion seeds to sow in their allotment.
Mr Cram – who is a plumber – said he and his green-fingered other half did not think twice about the ticket until after the draw took place last month.
He admitted that one day he had been sent home early from work due to the bad weather and decided to check the lottery results online before going to watch a rugby match with his friends to see his local team, Hull, play the Wakefield Wildcats.
When he had double checked the numbers, Mr Cram said he could not believe what had happened.
“I shouted ‘flippin’ ‘eck Marie’ and called her from the kitchen to take a look,” the plumber stated, adding that they then rang up the lottery headquarters to confirm their good fortune.
The Crams bided their time before claiming the money and waited for their eldest son to come back from university before telling both their children the good news.
After telling Ms Cram’s elderly parents about their jackpot win, the whole clan went to a local restaurant to toast their success.
The reality of the situation is still sinking in for the Crams, but they have made some plans.
Mr Cram commented: “The best thing for us is that is has bought us the luxury of being able to spend much more quality time together. We’re planning lots of long Sunday afternoons in our allotment and weekends away.”
His other half – who is a teaching assistant – wants to replace her old car and take the family to Florida on a holiday, while they also have the peace of mind of being able to support their sons financially.
Fans of the UK National Lottery could find they are just as lucky as the Crams on Saturday’s draw – and they can play online on theLotter.
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Many lottery fans may have a bank of lucky numbers that they cannot bear to enter a draw without, but one fortunate great-grandfather has proved that sometimes changing these digits can pay dividends.
George Keates – a 77-year-old pensioner from Southport- revealed that his wife Beryl asked him to buy some lottery tickets on a whim and gave him £5 to go to the shop and purchase the slips.
The couple, who only enter draws occasionally, usually use their lucky numbers but Mr Keates admitted that when he arrived at the store he had forgotten the digits and opted instead to use a Quick Pick lucky dip number generator.
This resulted in the Keates’ winning a massive £3.5 million UK National Lottery fortune last Saturday (March 3rd).
However, shortly before they checked their lottery ticket, the pair had just returned from seeing the doctor about Mrs Keates’ blood pressure, so when her husband looked up the winning numbers, his first though was one of terror that breaking the news to his wife would give her a heart attack.
When Mr Keates broke the news to his other half “she was in a state of collapse”, he admitted.
“She was on the stairs lying down and with her blood pressure I was telling her to take deep breaths and calm down,” the pensioner revealed.
But what will the Keates’ do with their winnings? Apparently a trip toAustraliais on the cards for the couple – who have been married for 56 years – for Mrs Keates to visit an old school friend.
“I have not seen her for a few years. When she came over last she had a stroke so she is in a home now. The last time I wrote, I told her that if I won any money on the lottery or bingo I would go and see her,” Mrs Keates said.
The pair say they have worked hard all their lives to make ends meet and believe this lotto win is the stroke of good luck they have been waiting for.
Lottery fans who want to play the UK National Lottery can do so this Saturday (March 10th) to be in with a chance of winning £4.2 million.
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A messy teenager has become £50,000 wealthier after he found a winning lottery ticket in his bedroom.
Ryan Kitching – who is 19 years old and works at the fish counter of a local supermarket – was told by his mother that he had to clean up his bedroom at their Penicuik home in Midlothian, Scotland.
While begrudgingly putting washing in the hamper and collecting dirty plates and cups, the lucky lad found a UK National Lottery ticket under his bed from a draw on February 8th.
Rather than tossing the slip straight in the wastepaper basket, Mr Kitching decided to check the digits at the shop where he works and realised to his dismay that he had five main numbers and one of the bonus balls.
The supermarket worker has thanked Susan, his mother, for putting up with his untidy ways and for encouraging him to clean up his room that day, because without her nagging his £52,981-winning ticket may never have seen the light of day.
Another situation that may have occurred is that the teenager came across the lottery ticket too late to collect the payout – a scenario that can be avoided by playing the lottery online on theLotter, which alerts people by text or email if they have struck lucky.
Lotto winner Ryan Kitching. Source SWNS
Mr Kitching is still unsure what he wants to do with his National Lottery prize but says he has been enjoying a lot of nights on the tiles with his friends and is considering taking some friends away with him for a week of partying in Magaluf.
However, his father has suggested he uses the money responsibly by using it for putting a deposit down on a property, but the lottery winner has said he is reluctant to move out of his parents’ house because he likes having his dinner cooked for him.
The lottery win also offers some additional comfort to Mr Kitching, as he was recently dumped by his girlfriend.
“She’ll be sad she finished with me now,” he said.
The next UK National Lottery draw is scheduled for tomorrow (March 7th) and entrants could be in with a chance of winning £2.2 million if they get all their numbers right.
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Many lotto fans who strike lucky playing their favourite draw like to give some of their newfound wealth to a good cause close to them and one such winner has revealed she wants to make sure she gives more than just a token of support to the hospital that helped her beat cancer.
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Duncan and Sheila Davidson celebrated winning £4.5 million playing the UK National Lottery on Saturday (February 11th) and the 53-year-old survivor has said she feels grateful for their good fortune, admitting life has not been so good for her and her husband.
Ms Davidson – who lives with her roofer partner in the Aberdeenshire town of Alford- revealed that she was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth in 2010.
She told the press: “I want to give something to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Without them, I wouldn’t be here today.”
The stock controller also admitted she only bough the ticket after having a lucky streak playing bingo and winning eight times.
Ms Davidson – who selected the winning numbers using a Quick Pick random number selector – realised she had won a fortune when she couldn’t sleep on Sunday night and got up to check the results of Saturday’s draw.
She said: “I thought I was going mad and woke Duncan to check. We were in complete denial that we could be so lucky.”
While Ms Davidson has not revealed whether or not she intends to keep her job as a stock controller, her husband – who is 60 – handed in his notice at work on Sunday and now plans to spend his days indulging in his favourite pastimes – watching Manchester United on the television and playing the bagpipes.
Indeed, Mr Davidson is looking forward to spending more time with the Lonach Pipe Band, which is comprised entirely of musicians who specialise in playing the traditional Scottish instrument.
Fans can play the UK National Lottery online on theLotter this Saturday (February 18th) to be in with a chance of winning £4.2 million, which would give them the opportunity to donate to a good cause close to their hearts just like Mrs Davidson.
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New figures released by the UK National Lottery organisation Camelot have revealed that 2011 was a record-breaking year for the British game.
According to a report on the 12-month period, construction workers scooped the most prizes and by chance more men went home with payouts than their female counterparts.
The end of year review shows that the UK National Lottery – which is in its 17th year – created 229 millionaires between January and December 2011, which is 71 more millionaires compared to 2010.
Of the professionals who won jackpots and other coveted prizes, builders, administrators and transport drivers made up the biggest number of those who struck lucky, while people born under the Taurus sign of the zodiac also enjoyed a prosperous year.
Interestingly, more than one-third (34 per cent) of people whose fortunes came in last year playing the UK National Lottery admitted that they had seen a sign to encourage them to use their lucky numbers or try their chances with a Quick Pick random number selector.
One of the reasons why 2011 was such a record-smashing year for the UK National Lottery is thanks to the EuroMillions – which is coordinated via Camelot in the UK.
In July, Christine and Colin Weir from Largs in Scotland scooped a life-changing jackpot of €185 million playing the game.
Since the UK National Lottery was launched in 1994, it has made 2,750 millionaires and a spokesperson for the organisation stated that many of the country’s biggest prize winners have been so generous with their payouts they have made additional millionaires of loved ones by giving them enormous cash gifts.
“There have been some huge prizes paid out during the last 12 months. This has been an extraordinary year for our players with so many new millionaires and multi-millionaires created,” the lottery representative commented.
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Wednesday’s (February 15th) top prize has been reset to an estimated jackpot of £2.2 million after a lucky ticketholder took home a £4.5 million jumbo payout on Saturday (February 11th).
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UK lotto winners Paul and Marie Kibler
Some lottery winners believe their good fortune is down to lucky numbers or good omens, while others say their windfall was claimed purely out of chance – but one British couple are certain their positive frame of mind is what led them to taking home a £2 million top prize.
Paul Kibler and his wife Marie are celebrating their enormous payout after choosing all the correct numbers when playing UKNational Lottery last Wednesday (February 1st).
The couple – who are from Sutton Coldfield in theWest Midlands- think their attitude about looking on the bright side of life is why they are now fabulously wealthy.
Mrs Kibler, who is 64, said: “I always remember a lady saying to me, think lucky and you will be lucky.”
“That and trying to be more positive to deal with stress and worry has led me to make a real effort to look on the bright side,” she admitted.
On the night of the draw, Mr Kibler revealed he was watching the news and waiting for the National Lottery numbers to come up, while his other half was getting to go to bed.
She shouted downstairs to her husband wishing him luck and shortly afterwards he came into the bedroom clutching the lottery ticket.
Mr Kibler said he thought he had all six numbers but was not certain, so the pair went online to use a lottery results checker when it dawned on them they had landed a fortune.
Mrs Kibler revealed that when they called the UKlottery headquarters Camelot the following morning and it was confirmed they would be taking home more than £2 million, she cried.
She revealed the fortune will allow her to retire early from her job as a medical secretary, while her husband is looking forward to returning to work following absence due to illness.
New cars are also on the Kiblers’ shopping list, withy the couple favouring Mercedes models.
Finally, both want to take Mr Kibler’s father on a cruise as a token of thanks, because on the night they received confirmation from Camelot, they all went out for dinner together, but neither of the lucky lottery winners had brought any money with them – forcing Kibler senior to pay the bill.
Lottery fans can play the UK National Lottery at theLotter on Saturday to be in with a chance of winning £4.1 million.
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One of Glasgow’s cultural quarter’s most recognisable buildings is being given an injection of lotto financing thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
Since its foundation in 1994, the HLF has supported some 32,000 projects across theUK, allocating £4.7 billion to good causes in this time – and this figure continues to grow every year.
According to the BBC, Kelvin Hall has been awarded a £5 million grant from the lotto organisation that will transform the building into a research and training centre.
The venue will also be used as a safe home for Glasgow’s university museums collections, providing easy access to the city’s cultural legacy.
Kelvin Hall was once home to the Museum of Transport, but this has since been relocated to the Riverside Museum, while its international athletics track is also due to close when the Commonwealth Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome are opened, however the Glasgow Club leisure facilities are expected to remain where they are.
Councillor George Redmond, chairman of communities group Glasgow Life, said: “Glasgow is blessed with an abundance of cultural treasures and by working with our partner organisations, we now have an opportunity to safeguard these collections for future generations.”
Kelvin Hall gets £5 million in lotto funding
The HLF and city decision-makers want the lottery funding to make Kelvin Hall one of the UK’s leading university museums, boosting the city’s reputation for being the cultural capital of Scotland.
And Scotland’s heritage is being given a double lottery boost, as a £4 million grant has also been awarded by the HLF to construct a Battle of Bannockburn visitor centre.
Planners hope the venue will attract millions to the site of the historic skirmish and its doors are due to open in time for the 700th anniversary of when the Scots clashed swords with the English in a fight for independence at the site.
Chief executive of the National Trust for Scotland Kate Mavor explained the visitor’s centre will be state-of-the-art and aims to bring tourists face-to-face with the gruesome spectacle of medieval warfare, as well as putting it in context with conflicts in the 21st century.
“We are creating a stimulating experience that does this historic place justice and tells the complex story of this crucial battle as accurately as possible,” she added.
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The UK National Lottery is helping to fund one of the biggest events of the year – the London 2012 Olympic Games, with £1.5 billion going towards the international sporting event.
According to the UK government, £750 million of this is being raised through the sale of Olympic-themed lottery tickets and a further £750 million will be earmarked from the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
In addition to helping fiscally support the games, the UK National Lottery is also holding events that will allow lotto fans to get a real taste of what is to come, as it is holding an Olympic Park Run that will offer sporty men, women and children the chance to cross the finish line even before the world’s most accomplished athletes.
Set for March 31st, the five-mile course concludes at the Olympic Stadium – which was partly funded using lotto finances – giving 5,000 people the chance to run on the tracks that will be treaded by the likes of Usain Bolt and Jessica Ennis.
Olympic Park London 2012
Further to supplying a portion of the money for the new stadiums and arenas, the UK National Lottery is also providing backing for the athletes in Team GB.
The lotto states that a proportion of its Good Causes fund is targeted at giving the country’s most talented sportspeople and paralympians the money to further their training, receive the best medical and scientific support and have access to the world’s top coaches.
There are more than 1,200 athletes that are backed by the UK National Lottery and the organisation claims it has contributed to bringing home 438 medals for Team GB at past Olympic and Paralympic Games events.
Camelot – the official UK lottery organisation – has generated more than £27 billion in lotto funding for good causes since it started business in 1994 and in the period up to March of this year, around 28 per cent of total UK National Lottery revenue is expected to have gone to charities.
The next UK National Lottery draw is set to take place on Saturday (January 14th) and players can enter to be in with a chance of taking home the £4.1 million estimated jackpot.
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For some, a huge lottery windfall may change the course their life takes, but one British teenager has revealed her luck playing UK National Lottery will not prompt her to quit her two jobs.
According to the Daily Mail, Eloise Hutchinson – who is 19 and lives in Colchester- landed an enormous £1.3 million prize playing the Lotto on New Year’s Eve (December 31st).
National Lottery Eloise Hutchinson
She bought the lottery ticket at the supermarket where she works part time and got her boyfriend to check the numbers, because she originally thought she only had four of the seven necessary to win the top prize.
Ms Hutchinson has taken managing her new wealth in her stride and told the press that she intends to carry on in her current job, while also running a mobile beauty therapy business – an enterprise she set up in 2011 with help from the Prince’s Trust youth funding scheme.
The winner is one of three lottery ticket holders to claim a jackpot prize that night, however her fellow millionaires have not decided to go public.
Even the people around Ms Hutchinson are keeping their feet firmly on the ground, with her boyfriend David Heard, 25, even paying for the celebratory meal they enjoyed to fete her newfound wealth.
Naturally, the lucky teen has gone out to enjoy a little retail therapy with her new flexible finances and admits she bought herself an iPad last week and then went shopping for some new clothes, but remains firm that the majority of the cash will be used to ensure she has a comfortable future.
Ms Hutchinson says the next thing she will splash out on is a holiday to Jamaica and perhaps moving in with her boyfriend, but a flash set of wheels are not a priority, with the winner claiming she only wants to replace her Ford Fiesta with a newer model.
Lottery fans may share the lucky teen’s plans for her new fortune and they too could win an enormous cash prize if they pick a set of winning numbers when they enter the next UK National Lottery draw, which is scheduled for tomorrow night (January 11th), with an estimated jackpot worth £2.2 million.
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Lotto fans who play EuroMillions online lottery may feel over the moon of they are lucky enough to take home a massive prize, just like one fortunate player from Sheffield in the UK.
According to the Star, Paul Turton landed a €1.2 million payout playing his favourite European draw last month and decided to keep his good news under his hat.
The lotto lover said he wanted to keep the revelation that he is a millionaire to himself until he knew what he was going to do about his newfound wealth, but told his parents straight away.
The 41-year-old amateur astronomer only told his boss at Waitrose – a luxury supermarket – about his brush with lady luck this week, when he realised he might be on television.
Mr Turton revealed that he is going to buy his loved ones whatever they want for Christmas, even though he had done all of his shopping for family and friends before he landed the top prize.
Furthermore, he revealed he hopes to fly his sister back from her home in Australia for a visit, as she would only be able to afford the ticket in September next year.
Lottery fans could win big in time for the holidays like Mr Turton if they play EuroMillions at theLotter to be in with a chance of winning Friday’s (December 9th) €26 million jackpot.
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A lottery-funded project based in Sheffield in the UK has been shortlisted to appear in a television show presented by British TV presenter Sara Cox and comedian Rufus Hound.
The Manor Lodge ruins and Turret House project has seen a new discovery centre built with UK National Lottery finances.
Some of the displays that have been set up thanks to the lotto cash injection are the story of when it was a temporary prison for Mary Queen of Scots and the old farm buildings on the estate, which include the old tools and equipment that workers would have used before mechanisation.
A spokesperson for the project said if the project is features in Cox and Hound Hit The Road it will give the presenters the chance to enjoy “mucking out the pigs, treading in the footsteps of Mary Queen of Scots or unearthing archaeological treasures” and invited people to go to its Facebook page and vote to see it on the TV.
Last week, the BBC reported that the Heritage Lottery Fund is set to give the Colwyn Bay Pier a new lease of life thanks to a multi-million pound lotto funding boost.
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In the wake of the happy news that 16 supermarket workers from Greater Manchester in the UK won £430,000 apiece playing UK National Lottery, one newspaper has asked its readers whether or not they would retire after such a windfall.
The Manchester Evening News calculated that a prize of this size could last 21.5 years if the player gave themselves an annual income of £20,000, while putting this sum in the bank could earn interest of around £1,118 per month.
Some readers claimed they would hand in their notice in a heartbeat if their lottery numbers came through for them, but many were not interested in a life of leisure.
Jan 2 commented that if she was in her 20s or 30s then she would carry on working, but at her age she would definitely retire.
And UK National Lottery fans may have to make this tricky decision tomorrow (October 12th) if their lotto numbers come through and they take home the £9.3 million jackpot.
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A group of colleagues who work together in a supermarket near Manchester have scooped a £6.8 million lotto win playing UK National Lottery together.
According to the BBC, the band of 16 colleagues at Asda in Hyde will share their payout after bagging the rollover money pot from the lottery draw last Saturday (October 1st).
Each member of the group – which includes staff from both customer services and the checkout – will collect more than £430,000 when their life-changing windfall comes in.
The co-workers are expected to discuss their lottery winnings for the first time together at the Greenfield Street shop today (October 5th).
Recently, the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph reported that a pair of lottery winners from Wellingborough who claimed £3.5 million playing UK National Lottery in July are spending their winnings sensibly.
Chris and Sue Bowers have used their payout to retire, buy a new home and a car.
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One of the UK’s lotto-funded organisations the Big Lottery Fund has chosen to finance youth schemes that aim to tackle misdeeds among this younger age demographic.
According to Children and People Now, a consortium of charities led by Catch 22 will be hunting for the 30 best initiatives in the country to be part of the £25 million drive.
Grants of up to £3 million in lottery money will be allocated to individual schemes over a period of three to five years.
Chairman of the Big Lottery Fund Peter Ainswoth said: “The programme will make a significant contribution to learning and evidence about how to deliver timely and high quality services to children and young people.”
He noted that value for money was one of the things the Big Lottery Fund is considering when it chooses which charities to support.
Last week, it was announced that the UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund will give £18.3 million in cash towards preserving the wildlife habitats at Morecambe Bay in Lancashire.
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A stretch of the UK coastline that is significant due to its wildlife habitats is set to receive a cash boost of £18.3 million in lottery money.
Morecambe Bay’s Headlands to Headspace project has had the generous sum of Heritage Lottery Fund cash earmarked for it in order to preserve animal nests and improve visitor knowledge of the area and its heritage.
The lotto funding will also be used to develop railway station hubs to access key sites, as well as restore and connect different habitats and to finance the study of seals and birds.
Susannah Bleakley, who co-ordinated the bid, was quoted by the news source as saying: “It is very encouraging, very heartening to have this level of support from the lottery and it should help us to make more of Morecambe Bay.”
Last month, the site of the Battle of Bannockburn received £10 million in lotto funding thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop the tourism centre.
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Everybody has an opinion about whether or not it is a good idea to go public if somebody wins big on the lottery – and one lifestyle guru has said it is down to the individual, but it can lead to trouble.
Author and founder of thelifealchemist.org John Rushton said that keeping a lotto windfall under one’s hat can be a good idea because announcing the good news can lead to a lot of unwelcome requests and pressure.
He acknowledged, however, that “it’s down to you”, but added: “All of a sudden you walk into a pub with your friends and everybody stares at you and the reason they stare is [because] you have to buy the drinks.”
But not everybody who goes public with their lottery win encounters problems, because according to Get Reading, two UK National Lottery jackpot winners who decided to go public – Annette and Terry Rooke of Calcot – said their lotto payout really improved their lives.
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The old saying goes that money can’t buy happiness, but one lucky lottery-playing couple have admitted their jackpot win really improved their lives.
According to Get Reading, Annette and Terry Rooke of Calcot in the UK won £2.4 million on the UK National Lottery four years ago and are still smiling thanks to their life-changing windfall.
The pair revealed winning the lotto allowed them to retire and admitted they have treated themselves to some “lovely holidays” travelling first class and have helped out their adult children.
But riches have not changed the Rooke’s habits too much, as the couple claim they still buy their lottery tickets every week and do chores such as clean the car themselves.
“It has really helped to make life easier for us,” Mr Rooke said.
And this weekend, lotto fans have the chance to win double what the Rookes took home if they play UK National Lottery on theLotter, which estimates the jackpot will be £4.2 million on Saturday (July 30th).
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The UK is a country full of lotto fans and so it comes as no surprise that many limeys have dreams about what they would do if they won the lottery jackpot.
According to a study by Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks, 58 per cent of Brits would move house if they won a juicy top prize, with those based in the Highlands of Scotland the most likely to up sticks – with 76 per cent of players based there claiming they would love a change of scenery if they won.
It seems those based in the south-west and London were the most happy with their current location, with less than half people from the West Country and the capital preferring to move elsewhere.
Despite most people claiming they would move if they won big playing the lotto, recent Scottish jackpot winners Christine and Colin Weir said they were quite happy in their Ayrshire home of Largs.
And those who fancy taking home a British jackpot can play UK National Lottery at theLotter for a chance at winning £4.2 million this Saturday’s (July 23rd’s) draw.
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A total of £3.4 million of lottery money has been awarded to Hampshire-based submarine HMS Alliance, the only remaining sub from the second world war still open to the public.
However, essential repairs are required on the ship – which can be found at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport, UK – since it is very badly corroded and could fall apart.
Including the lottery funding, over £5.8 million has been raised for the project, which aims to generate £6.5 million to help protect the sub.
Acting director of the museum Bob Mealings said the money means work can soon begin, adding: “It comes as a great relief that our ambitious plan to restore and conserve HMS Alliance has been seen as worthwhile by the Heritage Lottery Fund.”
The vessel was initially displayed to the public in 1982 but exposure to seawater has seen her stern, bow, keel and faring plates corroded – the lottery money will help to solve this problem.
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