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Lotto Luck For Young Couple
Press release: 19 September 2007

A teenage couple are celebrating beginning a whole new life together after winning a £716,766 share of the Lotto jackpot on Saturday 15 September 2007.

Ollie Kennedy and Kelly Lucas (both 18) discovered they were jackpot winners on Sunday afternoon, after Ollie finished playing a Sunday league game of football for the Gillespies. The Sunday evening celebrations for their 3-2 win were extended when Ollie arrived and announced that he and Kelly had hit the jackpot.

Kelly, who turned 18 earlier this month, and Ollie have a seven-month old son and plan to use their winnings to buy a house together.  

  
The couple only started to play the lottery two months ago and have kept the same numbers since the start – a selection based on birthday dates of family members and lucky numbers.

Ollie said: “I checked our lottery tickets on Teletext when I got back from playing football on Sunday. Kelly was with me and we couldn’t believe it when we saw that we had matched all six numbers – we’re still in complete shock, but obviously completely over the moon! We didn’t know what to do with the ticket so we decided the safest place to keep it would be in Kelly’s dad’s safe. We left it there while we went out to celebrate.”

Ollie continued: “Our families are really happy for us and we’re looking forward to buying a house together. I plan to have driving lessons and Kelly really wants a pink Peugeot 206.”

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Neil and Kate Chester from Margate are now celebrating a complete change in their fortunes after winning the £8,531,595 Lotto Rollover jackpot on Wednesday 5 September.

Neil (31) was made redundant only two weeks ago from his IT job in Guernsey. Neil and Kate (30), who have four young children aged between 15 months and 10-years-old, found out about the win on Friday, when Neil was travelling home from London, where he had been for the day for some job interviews. The lucky couple now plan to purchase a new Chrysler Voyager and a new family home with a large garden with their winnings. Kate is also looking forward to taking up horse-riding lessons.

Neil said: "If I hadn’t been made redundant I would never have won the Lotto jackpot because you can’t buy tickets in Guernsey. After I was made redundant we decided to move to Margate to stay with Kate’s family and I bought a ticket. 

They do say that everything happens for a reason – and the win is an absolute dream come true. After 11 years of marriage, I can now take my wife on a honeymoon!"

He added: "With two job offers under my belt, I was very happy. So when I was walking home from the station I decided to pop into a shop to buy a chocolate bar and check my Lotto ticket at the same time. When the shopkeeper checked the ticket and told me I’d won, I nearly passed out! I ran home and planted a big kiss on Kate."

Neil continued: "Our plans now are to enjoy life and fulfil our dreams. I am going to enjoy spending time with my family not going to work. We haven’t ever taken the children abroad on holiday so we are ecstatic that we are now able to do this. First on the shopping list will be a trip to Disneyland Paris for the whole family."

Neil and Kate’s winning ticket, which was a Lucky Dip®/Quickpick, was bought at Tesco Extra in Westwood Cross, near Broadstairs, in Kent. The winning Lotto numbers on Wednesday 5 September were 11, 24, 26, 35, 39 and 40.

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A chef is celebrating an extra-large serving of lottery luck – and is looking forward to enjoying an à la carte lifestyle – after winning the whopping £4,986,272 UK Lotto jackpot on Saturday 18 August 2007.

Paul Hardware (51) and his wife, Denise (46), claimed their UK Lotto jackpot win after a run of luck earlier in the week. Paul, who works at the Piper’s Inn in Ascot, Somerset, left Cardiff to find work at the age of 16.

Since moving to Somerset, he is still a regular visitor to Wales and is a big Welsh rugby fan. Paul will definitely be using some of his winnings to watch the Welsh kick off their Rugby World Cup campaign next month. He and Denise also plan to buy a new house in Street – as well as looking after their son, Matthew (20).

Paul explained: "I was leaving the snooker hall with my son Matthew a couple of weeks ago and saw the first star in the sky...

...I decided, for a laugh, to follow the tradition and make a wish so I wished to win the lottery. Since then I have had a real run of luck. I put £1 on last Wednesday’s Lotto draw and won £10. I then found a £10 note in the street and then on Saturday I hit the jackpot – I can’t believe it."

Paul added: "It’s a big relief to be able to pay off the mortgage, but we will definitely look round for a new property. We already have an idea of the house that we fancy. We will also be booking a few holidays – I really don’t mind where it is as long as it’s hot and sunny."

Paul selected his numbers with the Lucky Dip®/Quickpick option. 

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A mobile hairdresser from Honiton, UK is planning to celebrate in ‘style’ after trimming a £1,655,605 share of the Lotto jackpot on Saturday 7 July 2007 Mandy Williams (47), her husband Alan (52), and their two children, Hannah (21) and Danielle (18), now plan to take a few luxury holidays – although Mandy has already decided she will not be giving up her job. 

Top of their list are the bright lights of New York and next is one of Mandy’s dream destinations, China – to see the Terracotta Army. The couple also plan to invest some of their winnings and make sure their children get a foot on the property ladder. 

They are going to help Hannah buy her first house as well as treating her and Danielle to a new car each. It was actually Alan who discovered the win when he took the ticket into the local supermarket to get it checked. Mandy said: “I could not believe it when Alan told me. 

The couple selected the numbers from the Lucky Dip®/Quickpick selection. 

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A shop worker who won £4m on the UK Lottery has told how he intends to return to his law studies. Neil Murray, 27, from Banchory, Aberdeenshire, bought the winning ticket at the shop where he worked as an assistant manager.

He has already left that job but his wife Jennifer, 24, said she intended to carry on working as a teacher.

The couple said they were in shock after learning about the jackpot win in last Wednesday's draw.

Mr Murray said he was in disbelief when the six numbers - 7, 21, 22, 28, 37 and 40 - appeared to be a match, and had to ask his boss to double-check.

Mr Murray said the news of his £4,018,314 win had not yet sunk in. "This is still a big shock. I just can't get over the fact that the thing you think is never going to happen to you has happened," he said.

Mr Murray now plans to pay off all his student loans and continue to pursue a career in law.

"I can't ever imagine being a person who sits around the house all day doing nothing," Mr Murray said.

"I like to keep active and busy."

Mr Murray bought the ticket at the beginning of last week.

He said: "During my break at lunchtime on Thursday I got a print-out of the winning numbers from the night before to check my numbers.

"I just couldn't believe what I was seeing, so I asked my boss to look at them.

"I said to him 'could you check this, because I think I am going mad'."

Describing his boss's reaction, he said: "I think he swore at me."

After discovering his win, Mr Murray continued to work his shift at the store.

Taking holidays

He then went home and celebrated with a Chinese takeaway and champagne with his wife.

Mr and Mrs Murray now plan to move to a bigger house where they can keep horses, one of Mrs Murray's passions.

They said they would buy a new car and are thinking about taking holidays to Paris and New York.

The young couple said they were also considering donating some of the money to cancer charities.

Mrs Murray was in a shop looking at horse magazines when she received the phone call from her husband. "I didn't believe him," she said.

"But I guess I do now."

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Mum of three, Jennifer Southall, was tasting champagne for the first time after scooping an £8.37m UK Lotto Rollover Jackpot.

Jennifer (43), from Newport, Gwent, UK, left it six days before checking the numbers on the Lucky Dip®/QuickPick ticket she had bought for The National Lottery® draw on Easter Saturday, April 7 2007. But within an hour of discovering she had won an £8,372,751 fortune, she resigned from her job as a cinema supervisor and started planning the rest of her life.

A single mother of three teenage children who all still live at home in Ringland, Newport, Jennifer spent the first day of being a Lotto multi-millionaire at the local shops with her mum and sister.

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"We thought we’d go mad and go shopping together in Newport. I’ve never gone through so much money before in a single day," she said. "I spent about £1,500 on clothes, phones, a new handbag and a posh pair of trainers. We had great fun."

But the serious spending will start once Jennifer, who worked for 10 years as a supervisor at Cineworld in Spytty Road, Newport, passes her driving test. "I finally have the money to pay for driving lessons and once I’ve passed I’m going to go out a buy myself a brand new car – probably a pretty red one.

"I’ve also always wanted to live in a big house with a swimming pool – and a bedroom for me that’s far enough away from the kids that I won’t be able to hear their music blaring anymore!

"In fact, even though I still feel sick and in shock at having won so much money, believe me I am going to enjoy spending it."

Jennifer, who has a daughter (19) and two sons (17) and (14), is Newport born and bred. She was brought up in the Alway district of the town before moving to Ringland.

"I love Newport and even though I shall look to buy a much bigger house, I can’t ever imagine myself moving away from the area. All my family and friends are here and they are very important to me," she said.

Jennifer has played The National Lottery since it started and bought her Lucky Dip winning ticket at her local Tesco on the Monday before the Easter Saturday draw.

"The day I bought the ticket I slipped it in my bra for safekeeping before putting it in my purse later in the day. I never thought for one moment it would end up changing my life. When I went back to Tesco last Friday to check the numbers the shop assistant looked at me and said: ‘I think you’ve won rather a lot of money.’

"When she printed off the slip showing exactly what I’d won I started dancing from one foot to the other. A queue of people had built up behind me and they must have thought I was some sort of demented fool. I suddenly felt sick – and still do – although now it’s a very excited sort of sick feeling. I walked over the road to work, told my manager I’d won the lottery and handed in my notice there and then.

"When I went to have my ticket checked Camelot gave me a bottle of champagne to help me celebrate, but I just went home and ordered a pizza. I still haven’t opened the champagne – I have never tasted real champagne in my life."

Jennifer, who also plans to get a new passport and fly to Spain to visit her other sister, received her winning cheque today at a press conference at the Celtic Manor Resort hotel, near Newport, where the champagne was finally flowing.

She was accompanied by her sister, Angela Edwards, and their mum, Mrs Jeanette Steed, who also live in Newport.

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A 33-strong syndicate of workers from Palethrope Pie Factory in Market Drayton, UK has joined the upper crust after matching five main numbers and one Lucky Star number to win a mouth-watering £6,750,278.40 share of the EuroMillions jackpot on Friday (17 November 2006).

As no-one across the nine participating EuroMillions countries matched all five main numbers and two Lucky Star numbers to win the whole £123,232,395 jackpot, this massive top prize was shared between 20 lucky ticket-holders across Europe who matched five main numbers and one Lucky Star number on the next prize level.
  

Each of the lucky syndicate members in Market Drayton will get £204,553.89, with group leader and Quality Control Officer, Daryl Bowden (55), getting an even bigger slice of the pie – as husband David also was a member.

Daryl explained: "One of my fellow syndicate members called me to say she thought we had got the winning numbers. I didn’t believe her at first. I started checking our 33 Lucky Dip lines, and by line 25 I still hadn’t seen anything and thought she must have been wrong. Then there it was: the third from last line – five numbers and one Lucky Star".

Daryl continued "David checked the ticket and then he starting dancing around. Although I was very tired after a long shift and needed a snooze, I just couldn’t sleep I was so excited. We then started to phone around the other syndicate members."

Daryl said: "A fellow syndicate member suggested we play EuroMillions when it got to £88 million. I didn’t get round to it until the £100 million Rollover though. We didn’t win then but decided to have another go in the next draw anyway – I am so glad we did!"

Both Daryl and David intend to keep on working at the factory but are planning a few holidays, including trips to Jersey and New England. They will also be looking after their family. Other member of the syndicate will be spending their share on holidays, home improvements and new cars.

Daryl bought the winning Lucky Dip® ticket at One Stop, Shrewsbury Road, Market Drayton. The winning EuroMillions numbers on Friday 17 November were 12, 22, 32, 33, 36, and Lucky Star numbers were 2 and 6. Out of the 20 match-five-and-one-Lucky-Star winners across Europe, the UK topped the winners’ table last Friday with seven winning ticket-holders, who all scooped £6.75 million each (£47.25 million altogether) – France was second with four winners, followed by Portugal and Spain with three each, Ireland with two and Belgium with one.

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Stephen Stannard from Worthing, West Sussex, UK,  will be celebrating his ‘ice’ little earner by taking his family to explore Antarctica and Lapland – after matching all six numbers to win a cool £8,495,189 jackpot in the Lotto draw on Saturday 4 November.

Stephen (46), who owns his own building company, commented: "I can’t believe that we have won the Lotto jackpot! My family and I will be able to fulfil all our dreams of travelling around the world. We have only ever been to places in Europe but now we can start to plan trips to places we could only ever dream of before the win. Top of our list is Antarctica and Lapland. Our first holiday will be a skiing trip to Courchevel, France in January."
  

Stephen continued: "I found out that we had won when I checked the numbers on the National Lottery website at 8am on Sunday morning. I couldn’t believe it when all our numbers came up so I asked my wife, Julie (42), to come and check it for me. She wasn’t best pleased to be dragged out of bed early on a Sunday morning – until she found out why!

"We were absolutely shocked and stunned and didn’t know what to do when we realised that we had won the jackpot. We spent the rest of the day walking around Worthing town centre trying to calm down and let the news sink in. It didn’t feel real and I was extremely worried about losing the ticket. I safety-pinned the ticket to the top pocket of my shirt to keep it safe, but I couldn’t relax until I knew the money was actually in the bank."

Stephen added: "Our plans now are to enjoy life and fulfil our dreams. that the money is in the bank, I can’t wait to spend some of it! The on the shopping list are a Volkswagen Touareg and a camper van to enjoy not going to work, although I will still keep a keen interest business. My wife, however, really loves her job as a part-time nursery at a local school and is planning to continue with that."

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The National Lottery Creates Its First Manx Millionaire
25 October 2006

Jimmy Goodwin (62) of Ballasalla, Isle of Man, is celebrating in style after becoming the Isle of Man’s first National Lottery millionaire – he matched five main numbers and one Lucky Star number to bank £1,228,704.80 in last Friday’s EuroMillions draw (20 October 2006).

  
With a great interest in sea fishing, the first dream purchase will be a boat. Jimmy is also an avid fan of Manchester United, so some trips away to see the team play are certainly on the cards – this will no doubt give partner Rosie a great excuse for some shopping excursions too.

It was a colleague at work who first alerted Jimmy to his win. He explained: "I thought he was kidding around! He had to get the crumpled up results out of the bin to show me I really did have the numbers.

Jimmy added: "Everyone at work was absolutely delighted for me – they were all shaking my hand".

The winning Lucky Dip®/Quick Pick ticket was bought from Station Garage, Castletown. The winning EuroMillions numbers on Friday 20 October 2006 were 10, 19, 34, 45, 47, and the Lucky Star numbers were 3 and 6.

Jimmy has bought his ticket already and is now urging players all over the Isle of Man to do the same. To win the EuroMillions jackpot, players need to match five main numbers from one to 50, and two Lucky Star numbers from one to nine – but with 12 prize levels in total, EuroMillions actually offers a greater range of prizes than any other National Lottery draw.

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A Kingswinford, UK grandmother is celebrating after becoming the Black Country’s latest millionaire. Brenda Portch, (67), scooped a £1,487,099 share of the Lotto jackpot from Wednesday’s draw (18th October 2006) after she read about the win in her horoscope. 

Her amazing good fortune completes a hat trick of wins in the Black Country and comes only days after Irene and Ronald Jones, from Bilston, won a £9,355,603 jackpot in Saturday’s (14th October) rollover draw. Their win followed West Bromwich Albion fans Josie and Mick Timmins who netted £2,010,267 on the 9th September. 

Brenda was at home doing a crossword watching the lottery draw live on TV when she discovered her win. As the numbers came up she wrote them on her newspaper and could not believe her eyes. She explained: “I was really shocked. I phoned my son and he checked on teletext and confirmed I had matched six. I wanted to share the good news with all the family so I drove round to see my daughter and two sons.”

Brenda continued: “I then went round to see one of my sisters, Denise, and we both went round to our other sister Dinkie’s house where we celebrated, unbelievably, with a cup of coffee. I gave Dinkie the ticket for safe keeping and she hid it in her husband Ted’s underwear draw as we decided that was the last place anyone would want to look!” 

Brenda is already thinking about how to spend her win. As well as treating herself to a new car, she is also keen buy a new house. Her and her sisters already have a holiday booked to Philadelphia to visit their nephew and Brenda has decided that they will be upgrading their tickets to first class. Her number one priority will be to look after her family, especially her three children Steve (45), Lisa (38) and Robert (35) and her eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. 

The win could not have come at a better time as Robert and his partner Natalie are expecting Brenda’s ninth grandchild in a couple of weeks. Brenda commented: “Family really does come first with me and this win means the world to me. It means I can really look after the people I love.” 

Brenda’s winning ticket, which was a regular line of randomly chosen numbers, was bought at Barnett Lane Post Office and News, Kingswinford. The winning numbers on 18th October were: 6, 12, 36, 39, 41 and 48.

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