£2.5m Lottery jackpot yet to be claimed
National Lottery staff are trying to track down the winner of an unclaimed £2.5m jackpot.
Nobody has come forward to collect the £2,561,750 prize from February 7’s Lotto draw.
The winning ticket, with the winning numbers 6, 16, 18, 29, 30 and 35 - was sold in Barking, east London.
The lucky ticket-holder has until 5.30pm on 6 August to make their claim.
If no-one comes forward before the deadline, the prize money and the interest it has accumulated - expected to be nearly £64,000 - will go to the lottery’s good causes fund.
A National Lottery spokesman is quoted as saying: ‘We’re desperate to find this mystery ticket-holder and unite them with their winnings - this amazing prize could really change somebody’s life forever.
‘Whether the lucky ticket holder lives locally or was just in Barking that day, we’re urging everyone to check their old tickets.
‘We have the champagne on ice and our fingers crossed that the lucky winner comes forward to claim their win.’
American wins lottery, two days in a row!
An airline pilot from Minnesota in the USA won a $25,000 lottery jackpot — two days in a row.
Raymond Snouffer Jr. matched the winning numbers 11-14-23-26-31 to win Saturday’s Northstar Cash drawing with odds of about 170,000 to 1, Minnesota Lottery officials said.
On Sunday, Snouffer stuck with 11 and switched to 3-7-19-28 — and won again.
Snouffer was unavailable for comment, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on its Web site.
But his father, Ray Snouffer Sr was quoted: “Holy buckets!” when told of the feat, according to the Star Tribune.
Lottery officials said such a sequence was so farfetched that the odds against it were “virtually incalculable.”
…well, I calculated it and it works out at a staggering 28,900,000,000 to one. Yes you read that right - nearly 29 BILLION to one!