Jobless Euromillionaire

Quietly, with very little publicity or fanfare, a UK winner claimed a half-share of the Euromillions jackpot and received a cheque for £4.5 million from the draw made on 24 November 2006. There were two winners of the jackpot that night, after 13 weeks of no-one winning the Euromillions jackpot and Bob Wordon, and his wife Mary know exactly what they are going to do with their winnings. They are leaving Falkirk and plan to spend the rest of their life in luxury. The winning ticket was bought by the couple on Friday at Tesco in Falkirk’s Grahamston retail park, and the lucky numbers were 5,8,17,25,40 – 1,5.Currently unemployed, Bob was a pipemaker by trade and although he says Falkirk is a nice place to live, and they have lovely neighbours, with the fortune they’ve won there is no way they are going to stay put for the rest of their lives.

The third of seven UK Euromillions Rolldown winners of £6.75million has come forward but has opted for no publicity. It seems that this winner’s friends will not notice a change in her lifestyle, as reportedly she is already a millionaire, and paid the cheque straight into her bank account at the exclusive private London bank of Coutts.

A Ludlow man, Adam Griffiths has won the £250,000 Thunderball jackpot in the UK National Lottery draw from Saturday 18 November 2006, along with two other £250,000 winners. Like many previous lottery winners, Adam checked his numbers against Teletext, and thought he’d won a small prize by matching 4 numbers. It was a friend who on checking the ticket for him found he’d matched all five (5,12,14,15,28), plus the Thunderball (14)! When he phoned to tell his parents, his dad thought he was messing about, but his mum’s advice was to put the ticket in a safe. So far, Adam has bought friends a drink and an all-the-trimmings night out, and has his eye on a new Audi TT car. But before that, his five-year-old daughter Katie is to have the Christmas of her dreams.

- 4/12/06