Lottery News

A £20million American lottery winner who has been missing for nine months was recently found buried under a concrete slab, the apparent victim of a callous shooting.  Abraham Shakespeare went missing without trace last year but family did not report him missing immediately because they believed he had gone on a jaunt to the Caribbean.  A tropical destination was sadly not where Mr Shakespeare ended up, instead his badly decomposed remains were found under the slab in the grounds of a home belonging to a boyfriend of a close female friend.

The big Euromillions lottery winners have just had their identities unveiled by the National Lottery HQ Camelot, the extremely lucky couple Nigel Page and Justine Laycock from Cirencester, Gloucestershire have just scooped a £56 million win making them the biggest lottery winners in the UK.  Mr Page was clearly experiencing a run of good luck as he had already won £55 with a lotto ticket, then when he logged on to his National lottery account on Saturday morning to check the Euromillions lottery result he found that he had won half the massive £113 million Euromillions jackpot too.

Many National Lottery players may not be aware that when they take part in the weekly lottery games - whether online lottery or tickets purchased instore - that they will be helping the creation of five of the UK’s sporting venues that will be used in the 2012 Olympics.  In fact an amazing £2.2 billion will be raised by National Lottery ticket sales, and £750 million will be directly from special National Lottery 2012 games.

News of the British Euromillions £26.1m lottery winner have now been announced and Lotto Hideout can reveal that George Sturt aged 76 from Dorking in Surrey is the lucky winner.  George who refuses - even in spite of his big win – to give up his day job as a taxi driver because he enjoys the job so much -shares the win with his three children, Gary, Colin and Teresa.  Widower Mr Sturt plans to give a lot of his share of the cash to charitable causes including cancer research as his wife Maureen sadly died 6 months ago after battling with cancer.

Estate agents in Ilford must be doing a roaring trade with prospective new residents who are looking to win the lottery?  The reason for a possible interest in a move to Ilford in Essex is because according to the National Lottery players with the IG postcode are more likely to win big than any other area in the UK.  The results of the latest poll carried out by the National Lottery highlights how lucky the residents of Ilford have been in the National Lottery since the last results were released in 2006. One in 6,722 of tickets sold to Ilford resident result in a major lotto, lottery or scratchcard jackpot win, the national average however is one ticket in 7,366 ticket sales ending in a big win.

The lucky Euromillions numbers called on Friday made one UK resident £26 million richer.  The huge Euromillions jackpot prize is in fact split between a lottery player in France and the British player, and this magnificent lottery win is the fourth largest in UK lottery history.  The numbers on Friday were 11, 26, 29, 49, 50 and as yet the lucky winner is unknown.  The National Lottery spokesperson said of the massive Euromillions win "We are delighted to have another huge Euromillions winner here in the UK, following so closely to last November's record breaking jackpot winners”.
"We have plenty of champagne on ice and look forward to welcoming the ticket holder into the millionaires' club.

A benefit fiddling lottery winner has been spared going to jail even though she has been found guilty of theft.  The guilty woman - named in the Daily Mail as Sandra Bellamy - won £154,000 playing the National Lottery back in 2006, however she continued to claim financial support from various agencies including housing benefit, income support and council tax benefit.  The total that is believed to be involved in the benefits scam is £14,814.11, what makes the crime worse is that the woman had three properties in Bournemouth worth over half a million pound, a privately educated child, a £30k divorce settlement, and received a reported £3k per month in rental fees for her property portfolio and had £16,000 of savings prior to her big lottery win.

Lottery scratch game site, Scratch2Cash have announced the wonderful news that they have just paid out €100k to their first big winner of 2010.  Lottery Hideout love to hear about lottery, lotto and scratch game winners, but the winners we like to hear of most are those that win large sums of cash.  Of course a little bit of good luck is something that is great news at any time, but those big sums of cash that get collected by a few lucky individuals are what makes most of us indulge in playing at lottery and gaming sites in the first place.  Scratch2Cash are one of the first this year to announce a big winner with the announcement that Ivan C, a player in France was the lucky winner of a massive €100,000 at their site.

Most married couples who were lucky enough to win a lottery jackpot would use the cash to make a better life for themselves and their family, looking forward to the adventures that their new found lottery jackpot winnings could give them.  Not so for a couple in America, Donna Campbell is about to be evicted from her home even though her husband Arnim Ramdass has a share of a $19m lottery win, and the reason for Donna’s dire situation is that her husband has disappeared with the lottery winnings.