Latest Lottery News Saturday 18 October 2008

Lottery draw for house is blocked
Times Online - UK
A prize draw for a £1 million house has been postponed after a last-ditch intervention by the Gambling Commission. Thousands of people will now have to wait ...

Lotto winner prefers to use the bus
Daily Post - Llandudno Junction,UK
A POWER station worker who scooped nearly £250000 on the Lotto said he will carry on working after his big cash win. Terry Jones, known locally by his ...

Lottery cash to improve parks
Ellesmere Port Standard - Ellesmere Port,England,UK
Two parks in the North West are on track for major transformation after being awarded lottery funding, it has been announced. The Dunwood Park in Shaw was ...

Jones challenges Lotto's Carroll to fight
Digital Spy - UK
By Sarah Rollo Vinnie Jones wants to fight Lotto winner Mikey Carroll after learning that he has been tipped as a future screen villain and the "next Vinnie ...

£7 million lottery surprise for gap-year student
The Edinburgh Journal - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
It is now theoretical improbable that anyone in the county will win the lottery for at least one hundred years. Five years after a 16 year old from ...

Lottery cash for Nelson monument
The Edinburgh Journal - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
The "time ball" atop Edinburgh's Nelson monument on Calton Hill has received a £50000 Lottery Fund grant for restoration, amidst recent claims by UNESCO ...

Vinnie: I'll clout the Lotto lout
The Sun - London,UK
VINNIE JONES has offered to help the nation – by knocking seven bells out of lotto lout MIKEY CARROLL. The movie hardman nearly choked on his bacon roll in ...

Lotto scam fueling Jamaica crime
BBC News - UK
By Nick Davis Police in Jamaica say a lotto scam targeting US citizens is contributing to gang violence in the country. Detectives say criminals are buying ...

Cathedral loses £5m lottery bid
BBC News - UK
The Heritage Lottery Fund said it was unable to grant the request due to heavy competition for funds. The Rev Adrian Dorber, the Cathedral's Dean, ...

Lotto lout to play a film thug
The Sun - London,UK
By GARY O’SHEA Carroll, of Downham Market, Norfolk, who won £9.7million in 2002, will have a handful of words although he can’t read properly. ...