Lottery News

Hopa Scratch cards are the fabulous new scratch card from the National Lottery that you are able to play online, which means instead of going to the local shop, you can now play it from the comfort of your own armchair.

A player of the National Lottery, who lives in Dronfield, has been extremely lucky and won a substantial cash prize, when he matched five lottery numbers and the bonus.

Mr Martin Simpson, who is 59 years of age, quit his job a few weeks prior to winning the National Lottery, to enable him to start up his own minibus company. However, Mr Simpson was checking Teletext for flight times when he realised he had not checked his lottery numbers.

Millions of people who played the Euromillions lotto on Friday 1st May 2009 were sat on the edge of their seats as they waited in anticipation for the lottery numbers to be revealed. Although millions of tickets were sold, not one person managed to match all the winning numbers. This now means that it will rollover to next week, where there is an estimated Euromillions prize fund of £110 million, which is the highest amount ever to be up for grabs in the lottery.

A married couple, who participate in the National Lottery, have won the winning lottery numbers in the roll over jackpot last month. The married couple, Martyn White and his wife Sandra, play the National Lottery online and found that they had won when they checked their lottery numbers while they were preparing for a holiday to Italy.

The Irish Lottery has been in the news on numerous occasions over the last few weeks due a large rollover awarded to a mystery winner. Now the Irish Lottery has had a boost, where lotto officials have now decided to add a substantial €2 million to the Irish Lottery jackpot, which has come about just in time for the bank holiday weekend lotto draw.

A married couple have narrowly escaped a prison sentence after they were found to have made a fraudulent National Lottery claim.

It was heard that Mr Michael and Amanda Stacey had found a Daily Play lotto ticket where they claimed a cash prize of £30,000. Mr and Mrs Stacey spent half of the money before the rightful owner of the Daily Play ticket contacted the police, who then put a stop on the remainder of the National Lottery money being paid out.