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The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the UK. It has been making millionaires and supporting good causes since 1994.

Top 10 luckiest places in the UK - Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria tops the list
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The Lottoland data also revealed the luckiest birthdays and names - with Vivian and Archie the luckiest female and male names, respectively
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'I won £2.4m on the lottery and bought a pool table - now I've won bronze representing England'
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Neil Jones, 59, said being named captain of the England team in the tournament in Malta was his 'proudest moment', but none of it would have happened without a whopping Lotto win
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'I won Olympic Gold but that was nowhere near as hard as what I'm doing now'
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One of BBC’s most popular sporting presenters Sam Quek says Olympic gold, I’m A Celebrity, Celebrity Master Chef and even Question of Sport can't compare to one thing she does now
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UK's youngest lotto winner wasted jackpot on parties and boob jobs and ended up broke
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Lottery winner Callie Rogers bagged her millions aged just 16 and said it changed her life "overnight" – but after splurging on nights out and plastic surgery, she had to turn to Universal Credit
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Bloke builds massive crazy golf course in back garden after winning lottery twice
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David Lawrence pocketed a whopping £1million using the same numbers that won him £12,000 three years ago - and he now plans to construct a huge crazy golf course
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EuroMillions draw creates 10 new UK millionaires — check if you are one of them
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The winning codes were announced after it was revealed a mum pranked her husband into thinking they had won £250,000 on the lottery actually bagged a real £1M jackpot
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Wife pranks husband saying she won lottery - then scoops £1m in EuroMillions 3 weeks later
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Former admin worker Charlotte Peart tricked her husband Daniel into believing she had won £250,000 before striking it lucky just three weeks later as she scooped £1million on the EuroMillions
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New art installation of HMT Empire Windrush unveiled in London to end Black History Month
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The 12 foot tall sculpture weighs 600kg and took over six weeks to build, with funding from the National Lottery, as part of the Windrush 75 celebrations
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Winning lotto ticket hell as dream £7m led to nightmare with shooting, kidnap and courts
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A dream jackpot of over £7m left a woman fearing for her life as she quit her waitressing job and got into a legal battle, suffered an attempted kidnapping and narrowly escaped a deadly shooting
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Lotto winner's girlfriend mocked online after blowing nose with €500 note
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Kursat Yildirim and his policewoman girlfriend called Candice have been slammed for the video that was meant to mock the couple's online haters . . . but it backfired
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Locals raging sleepy town will morph into 'Disneyland-on-sea' full of 'screaming kids'
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The locals living in the British seaside town are fuming over plans to build an educational community garden which they fear will attract bus loads of screaming kids on school trips
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Couple who bagged lottery win didn't realise for weeks after they forgot to check emails
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A 'laid back' couple are "still in shock" after winning the National Lottery's Set For Life draw earlier this year – and didn't realise for weeks after they forgot to check their emails
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EuroMillions winner Jane Park poses with gunman who launched gangland-style shooting
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Jane Park bagged £1,000,000 in 2013, becoming the youngest ever Euromillions winner, and she has now been seen loving life alongside a bloke jailed for a gangland shooting
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Mechanic's anguish after £108m EuroMillions win left him with huge 'challenge'
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Former mechanic Neil Trotter pocketed a staggering £108million from the EuroMillions in 2014 but his first big purchase with partner Nicky Ottaway left the pair facing a number of challenges
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Lotto winners who transformed after splashing out on cosmetic surgery – like 36FF boobs
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Many lotto winners turn to fast cars, fancy homes and luxury holidays after becoming millionaires over night. But the people mentioned below went under the knife after their bank balances exploded.
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Ex-fraudster lotto winner who bought pet alligator now dating cop and wants TV role
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Lottery winner Kursat 'Chico' Yildirim is hoping to get a shot on the small screen, using his former criminal background to portray characters in a fictional crime show
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UK couple who scooped £1m Lottery jackpot reveal unusual first purchase as millionaires
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The first thing you'd go out and buy if you won £1million in the lottery is something many of us dream about but for one couple this incredible reality didn't go down quite how you might expect
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National Lottery has helped fund over 600 films in the last 26 years - winning over 500 awards
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And to mark the start of the BFI London Film Festival, a 'Walk of Stars' has been unveiled on London's Southbank - honouring film luminaries like Bend It Like Beckham director, Gurinder Chadha
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EuroMillions luckiest numbers revealed ahead of tonight's bumper £112m jackpot
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Luck is a huge thing when it comes to playing the National Lottery, but now the luckiest numbers of 2023 have been revealed ahead of a huge £112million draw tonight
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Unlucky Brit Lottery winner misses out on £1million prize due to costly mistake
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National Lottery winners have 180 days to claim their winnings, but one British ticketholder lost out on £1million by failing to do so with several more remaining on the unclaimed winners list
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Lottery fraudster who conned £2.5m could be set for £350k – despite being behind bars
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Jailed lotto fraudster Edward ­Putman is currently behind bars but that may not stop him making a considerable amount of the back off the sale of a seized property
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World's richest $2bn lottery winner's 'worst spending mistakes' with rookie first error
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Edwin Castro has been splashing millions of dollars on luxury properties since winning the $2.04billion Powerball but financial experts have claimed his purchases are 'terrible'
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Inside £40m EuroMillions winner's insane bachelor pad with fake lake and three bars
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The ex-brickie's 6,000sq ft bachelor pad in Nottinghamshire has a giant artificial lake, a swimming pool with programmable waves, an in-ceiling sound system, floating fireplaces, three bars and two hot tubs
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EuroMillions winner Jane Park in racy bikini pic after break following topless snap
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Scotland's Jane Park won £1,000,000 at the age of just 17, and turned to selling racy content to make money before she recently took a social media break - but now she is back with a sizzling bikini snap
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