Lottery winners do good things

Some lottery winners do great things like giving large amounts of money to charity - see our MEN news story posted earlier.

A COUPLE who became millionaires after winning the lottery brought some festive cheer to a Reading hospice in the shape of a champagne-filled Christmas hamper. This was after a friend has been ill and had spent their last days at the hospice.

Don't give up the day job

Luke Pittard, 25, won £1.3million on the National Lottery 18 months ago.

Millionaire lottery winner goes back to job at McDonald's... because he misses his workmates

Aww! I can imagine if your mates all work during the day then it might be a bit lonely!

Big lottery win

The 40-year-old mother of one from East Kilbride only discovered on Monday, three days after Friday’s draw, that she had won the entire Euromillions jackpot of £35,425,411.

The winning numbers were: 23, 40, 42, 43, 49, plus 2 and 6. The amount dwarfs the previous biggest British EuroMillions win by Marion Richardson, from Gateshead, northeast England, who netted £16.8 million in April 2004.

More on this Lottery winner story at the times online

Winning the National Lottery

National Lottery winners news articles

Tommy & Jean Cone - £4.2m
Dean Hardman & Stella Kensall - £6.75m
Dave & Christina Sweeney - £2m

Three stories of lottery winners in Greater Manchester at the MEN 26/ 5/2007

So what would you do if you won?
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