It has been a record year for UK lottery winners in the EuroMillions Jackpot. The latest winner won over £37 million which is the UK’s 14th largest win ever.
This lottery win comes only a month after the £148 that Adrian and Gillian Bayford of Suffolk won. A lottery spokesman was delighted with the recent UK-based lottery winners, “It has been an extraordinary year for UK ticket-holders. This is the eighth EuroMillions jackpot to be won on these shores in 2012. Our winner services team is on hand ready to validate the ticket and pay out the prize, and of course we have plenty of champagne on ice.”
Other notable EuroMillions Jackpots include Matt Topham and Cassey Carrington who won £45.1 million. Who can forget the syndicate of bus drivers from Corby, Northamptonshire who drove away with £38 million in March.
Lottery tickets still remain one of the most popular forms of gambling worldwide. People are always keen to challenge their luck with dream jackpots on offer. The fact that most lottery winners are regular people with normal day jobs only increases their popularity. The stories of people whose lives are changed in a single ticket is what gives all of us hope and even expectation that someday it will our names in the local paper as the next jackpot winners.
Lotteries like EuroMillions are available to anyone wanting to play. Online lottery services provide the chance for anyone in the world to purchase their lottery tickets via the internet. All the major global lotteries are available on these online lotto sites which means that partaking in jackpots that reach into the hundreds of millions could be yours at the touch of a button.