A couple sentenced for Lottery fraud have only narrowly escaped time behind bars. Michael and Amanda Stacey found a Daily Play ticket and claimed the £30,000 prize it won as if it were their own. The couple had spent £15,000 when the rightful National Lottery winner raised the alarm, leading the police to freeze the remainder of the payout.

A National Lottery player from Southwell is celebrating a double Lotto win that gave him a total payout of £130,967. Daniel Stretton, who is a retired printer, won prizes in both the main Lotto game and in the Lotto HotPicks game on Wednesday 1 April, 2009.

Another EuroMillions triple rollover jackpot of £52 million will be up for grabs this Friday 17 April, 2009 after no National Lottery players were able to match all five main numbers and both Lucky Star numbers. The last EuroMillions triple rollover was offered on Friday 9 January, 2009, and it ended up being won by a single ticket-holder. Will another individual scoop the £52 million this Friday?

A Leicestershire ‘Lotto’ library has been opened thanks to a Big Lottery Fund award of £781,402. The Newbold Verdon Library near Leicester is the first of 58 newly renovated Lotto libraries that we can expect to see opening across the country, and a total of £80 million of National Lottery cash will be invested in the project.

A couple of National Lottery players in Cumbria matched all six main Lotto numbers to win the jackpot on Saturday 28 March, 2009. There were five jackpot-winners in all, but because it was a double rollover jackpot each winner received a share worth £2,783,114.