That spectral sound you can hear is the ghost of Margaret Thatcher saying ‘I told you so’. This image came to me when reading the Sunday Times’s revelation of how a ‘loophole’ had allowed children of 16 and 17 to gamble up to £350 a week in pursuit of National Lottery jackpots on their laptops … Read more
The National Lottery is taking advantage of a loophole that allows children as young as 16 to gamble hundreds of pounds a week online. There are fears the loophole could lead to an epidemic of gambling among future generations, with the latest figures revealing that 16 and 17 year olds spent £47 million on National … Read more
Two million dental plan customers face lottery on securing payment breaks and refunds By Fiona Parker For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 7 July 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 7 July 2020 More than two million dental patients face a lottery on securing payment breaks. Denplan allows customers to choose a dentist and spread … Read more
Builder who won £105m Euromillions jackpot treats himself and his wife to a second-hand van and car – and they still live in their three-bed terraced home seven months after their win Steve Thomson, 42, and wife Lenka, 41, became Lottery’s ninth-biggest winners But still live in the same £120,000 terraced home in West Sussex … Read more
British youngest lottery winner – who won £1million aged just 17 – slams ‘people who use others for money’ in candid Instagram post Jane Park, 24, from Edinburgh, took to Instagram to share candid post on Friday Shared it with 232k followers and slammed ‘people who use others for money’ Said it’s not ‘cool’ to … Read more
An electrician who bought a Euromillions lottery ticket for the first time ever after ‘a voice in his head’ told him to has landed a staggering £1 million win. Simon Waddup, 31, from Coventry, had been shopping in his local Aldi supermarket when he ‘kept hearing a voice in his head’ telling him to enter the National … Read more
An electrician who bought a Euromillions lottery ticket for the first time ever after ‘a voice in his head’ told him to has landed a staggering £1 million win. Simon Waddup, 31, from Coventry, had been shopping in his local Aldi supermarket when he ‘kept hearing a voice in his head’ telling him to enter the National … Read more
Take-up of a scheme allowing people to delay selling their houses to pay care home fees exposes a ‘postcode lottery’, according to research by a law firm. A selective survey of 10 local authorities reveals that the rate of deferred payment agreements among self-funded care home residents ‘varies wildly’ from 0.9 per cent in East … Read more
National Lottery website and app both crash after power failure ahead of £5m Lotto draw tonight Customers trying to access the website are told online services are ‘unavailable’ The power outage took place in the Watford area, an town northwest of London On Twitter, The National Lottery apologised for any inconvenience caused today By James Wood For … Read more
Local tips and recycling centres will reopen in some parts of England this weekend while others will remain closed despite a surge in fly-tipping. Residents in Hampshire, Northumberland and Greater Manchester are among those able to clear out excess waste when refuse sites reopen – with a variety of restrictions – from tomorrow, after the … Read more