Winning lottery numbers as £67m EuroMillions jackpot goes unclaimed

Euromillions winners quit work to build their dream home from scratch

A couple have quit work to build their dream home after winning £1million on EuroMillions.

Woman was 'adamant' she would win top lottery prize - then pockets $200,000

John and Patricia Gill scooped the prize on Christmas Day in 2015, and are now converting a detached property. Patricia said: “The win has bought us time – the time to do so much with our lives. John is now in the process of building our dream home.” The couple are doing the bulk of the work on the former bungalow themselves. They hope to move in in the spring.

Patricia, 60, said her husband, who has an engineering background, has always been “handy”. She added: “He prefers to do it himself. Now that he has retired, it gives him something to get his teeth into.”

She added: “I brush up, I make the tea, I do the sandwich run, but I’ve also been sanding down the door frames, so anything I can do I will get stuck in. I like to keep it clean and tidy because if you are working in a tidy environment it is so much nicer.”

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Tesco driver wins £3.8million National Lottery jackpot and finishes giving out turkeys

A Tesco delivery driver has told how he thought it was a "trick" after winning the £3.8 million Lotto Jackpot and before completing his shift at work to not leave colleagues in the lurch.

Ticket-holder Jonny Johnston, 45, was delivering festive goodies for his employer, Tesco, just before he discovered his incredible stroke of luck. On completing his rounds on Saturday, December 16, he enjoyed a Christmas night out with work colleagues before spotting a familiar message from the National Lottery on this email announcing there was ‘good news about his ticket’.

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No winners in tonight's draw

Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at The National Lottery, said, “It's been an incredible night for UK EuroMillions players, as tonight’s special Millionaire Maker draw saw 10 guaranteed UK millionaires made. Make sure to check the UK Millionaire Maker code on your EuroMillions ticket to see if you are one of tonight’s lucky £1M winners, and look out for Tuesday night’s draw with a whopping £75M up for grabs, as tonight’s EuroMillions jackpot rolled over!

“Thanks to National Lottery players, £30M is generated every week for Good Causes. This money helps fund projects across the nation, with over 685,000 grants – supporting projects both big and small – having been made across the UK to date.”

Man who won £4.5million on Lottery gives up burger van to travel the world - on a bike

A £4.5m National Lottery winner is now King of the Road after buying his 'dream' bike.

Woman plays lottery on 'tough day' during her break - ends up winning $100,000

Gary Henry and his former wife, Ann, used to run a burger van before their September 2008 jackpot. Since then, he has travelled the world, spent £550,000 on a luxury propertyand given £23,000 for a football pitch dedicated to his late mum, Gladys, in his childhood home of South Church, Co Durham.

Gary, 62, celebrated the anniversary of his win with the ‘Rolls Royce of bicycles’ – a £8,500 electric S-Works SL Creo. He said: “The last 15 years have absolutely flown by. I can still remember the phone call to The National Lottery and it all felt like a dream.

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Millionaire Maker codes have been generated

Millionaire Maker Selection: - 10 UK millionaires have been created

VDJQ24380

MDJX70412

JDJL23606

VCHX27490

XCJJ06576

VDJR71692

HDKB61301

MCHZ71207

MDJL54293

VDJW25773

National Lottery winner scooped £2m – but still ended up sleeping on lilo on pub floor

A National Lottery splurged his £2million win and ended up in court in a row over £400, sleeping on the floor of his own pub.

When Mike Antonucci scooped the jackpot in 1995, he believed he was set for life and quit his job as an antiques dealer. He went on an international spending spree during which he purchased luxury cars and yachts, and splashed out on a pub, nightclub and massage parlour.

Mike also bought a £200,000 speedboat and £250,000 apartment, and tied the knot with Kelly Arkins, a glamour model, in a lavish £10,000 ceremony in the Bahamas. The lottery winner also splurged £4,500 on Kelly's breast implants.

But the marriage lasted just three months and Mike's various business ventures, including his own pop band, proved unsuccessful. The former antiques dealer, now 74, ended up sleeping on a lilo in one of the pubs he ran in Plymouth, Devon. Since then he has remained under the radar – he was last reported to be working as a furniture exporter and living "day to day".

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BBC Breakfast hosts make huge Strictly Come Dancing blunder live on-air

In 2009, some 14 years after his lottery win, Mike appeared in court charged with assaulting a shop owner he owed £400. He was found guilty and fined £720. Mike told magistrates in Plymouth: "I have had situations in my life in the last 15 years. When you go through certain experiences these things happen to you."

EuroMillions numbers are in

Tonight's EuroMillions numbers are 16, 17, 18, 45 and 49.

The Lucky stars are 09 and 12. Are you a winner?

Thunderball numbers are in!

Tuesday's Thunderball numbers have been drawn.

As ever, players have the chance to win a cool jackpot of £500m in the fourt-times-weekly game.

Tonight's winning numbers are 2, 7, 17, 33, 34 while the Thunderball itself is 07.

National Lottery operator donated £20,000 to Tories after winning licence battle

A Czech billionaire’s gambling firm donated £20,000 to the Tories just a year after winning a controversial battle to run the UK’s National Lottery.

The Gambling Commission, a government body, handed the licence to run the Lottery to Allwyn, Europe’s biggest lottery operator, in March 2022. The bitter competition had been plagued by months of legal wrangling - but Allwyn will finally take over the licence from next month.

The firm, previously known as Sazka before rebranding during the bidding process, pledged to double charitable donations to £38billion over the next decade and to slash ticket prices to £1. And in November last year, they made a donation worth £20,000 to the 1922 Committee, the Conservative Party’s parliamentary association.

Allwyn is owned by 53-year-old oil tycoon Karel Komarek, who has previously faced questions over his links with Russian-state energy giant Gazprom.

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What's the UK Millionaire Maker?

Since November 2009, at least one UK player has won a guaranteed £1,000,000 every week as part of the UK Millionaire Maker game.

Where is EuroMillions played?

EuroMillions is a lottery played across nine European countries - the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland. The game launched on 7th February, 2004, and has now had over 1,000 draws.

How to play EuroMillions

The draw takes place every Tuesday and Friday evening at 8pm. Players have to choose five main numbers from 1 to 50, along with two Lucky Stars between 1 and 12.

You can either pick the numbers yourself, purchase a Lucky Dip or use a random number generator to create an entry.

You can enter up to seven lines on a single play slip at a UK retailer. Purchase your entries before the cutoff time for that draw.

Relax and wait for the results!