Londoner’s frantically search Bexley after a lottery ticket worth £10.6m goes unclaimed. Everyone is being urged to check everywhere for the small pink ticket that is now known to be a winner in the Bexley area.
Andy Carter, National Lottery Senior Winners’ Adviser told City News where the most unlikely winning ticket has been found:
“Over the years we’ve seen winning tickets turning up in all sorts of unexpected places – from the pocket of a jacket someone hasn’t worn in a while, to inside an old wallet, buried at the bottom of a handbag, or even tucked in to a book as a makeshift bookmark.”
“So, we’re urging players to check anywhere a pink ticket might be hiding.”
Someone in Bexley is sitting on an unknown million pounds as we speak; how does the National Lottery try to find them?
“We’re out in Bexley this week, spreading the word and we’re hoping to reunite the rightful ticket-holder with their incredible £10.6 million lotto win.”
The multi-million prize will end up redistributed to the National Lottery’s ‘good causes’ if the winner doesn’t realise and find their ticket before April 2nd – giving them just over two weeks from today.
The £181m prize from the Euromillions has been claimed by a UK-ticket holder last week, but they have, so far, remained anonymous to the public.
Champagne celebrations. Credit: AP
There are, of course, potential downsides to winning this amount of money.
When a 19-year-old binman Michael Carroll won £10m in the lottery of 2002 he said he just wanted to buy a three-bedroom house by a lake so he could go fishing. He told press he didn’t want to spend it lavishly.
But eight years later, he was reported by the BBC applying to go back to his old binman job, the money was all gone.
“It didn’t go wrong – it was the best 10 years of my life for £1. I don’t look back with any regrets, that’s for sure.” He told The Mirror.
Only a few weeks ago The National Lottery named another winner. Paul Wynne was a delivery driver from North Wales when he won £1m. His plan is to invest in a racehorse, so we hope he’s still got some luck left.
So what would our team of digital journalists do with that amount of cash?
“Buy a house abroad. I’d buy part of a football team with the rest. Some lower league team. A controlling stake in Bolton Wanderers.” Ciaran tells us.
“Such a boring answer – but I’d take advice and invest in an ISA.”- Kate
“Put half in savings, then buy a house and off my parents mortgage and set up a charity”- Arwen
While everyone wanted to spend their money differently – our three journalists agreed on one thing. The sudden flush of £10m would certainly come with some problems.
Kate tells me “I’d be daunted. It changes your relationship with other people. It puts distance between you. Wealth in life is relationships. Cash wealth threatens real wealth.”
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Londoner’s frantically search Bexley after a lottery ticket worth £10.6m goes unclaimed. Everyone is being urged to check everywhere for the small pink ticket that is now known to be a winner in the Bexley area.
Andy Carter, National Lottery Senior Winners’ Adviser told City News where the most unlikely winning ticket has been found:
“Over the years we’ve seen winning tickets turning up in all sorts of unexpected places – from the pocket of a jacket someone hasn’t worn in a while, to inside an old wallet, buried at the bottom of a handbag, or even tucked in to a book as a makeshift bookmark.”
“So, we’re urging players to check anywhere a pink ticket might be hiding.”
Someone in Bexley is sitting on an unknown million pounds as we speak; how does the National Lottery try to find them?
“We’re out in Bexley this week, spreading the word and we’re hoping to reunite the rightful ticket-holder with their incredible £10.6 million lotto win.”
The multi-million prize will end up redistributed to the National Lottery’s ‘good causes’ if the winner doesn’t realise and find their ticket before April 2nd – giving them just over two weeks from today.
The £181m prize from the Euromillions has been claimed by a UK-ticket holder last week, but they have, so far, remained anonymous to the public.
Champagne celebrations. Credit: AP
There are, of course, potential downsides to winning this amount of money.
When a 19-year-old binman Michael Carroll won £10m in the lottery of 2002 he said he just wanted to buy a three-bedroom house by a lake so he could go fishing. He told press he didn’t want to spend it lavishly.
But eight years later, he was reported by the BBC applying to go back to his old binman job, the money was all gone.
“It didn’t go wrong – it was the best 10 years of my life for £1. I don’t look back with any regrets, that’s for sure.” He told The Mirror.
Only a few weeks ago The National Lottery named another winner. Paul Wynne was a delivery driver from North Wales when he won £1m. His plan is to invest in a racehorse, so we hope he’s still got some luck left.
So what would our team of digital journalists do with that amount of cash?
“Buy a house abroad. I’d buy part of a football team with the rest. Some lower league team. A controlling stake in Bolton Wanderers.” Ciaran tells us.
“Such a boring answer – but I’d take advice and invest in an ISA.”- Kate
“Put half in savings, then buy a house and off my parents mortgage and set up a charity”- Arwen
While everyone wanted to spend their money differently – our three journalists agreed on one thing. The sudden flush of £10m would certainly come with some problems.
Kate tells me “I’d be daunted. It changes your relationship with other people. It puts distance between you. Wealth in life is relationships. Cash wealth threatens real wealth.”
