| The National Lottery in the UK has
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| | It may seem incredible, but some lucky
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| created over 800,000,000 winners (yes
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| | winners of big money prizes on the
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| that's 800 million) since it first
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| | National Lottery never actually claim
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| started back in November 1994. Every
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| | their cash!
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| week, an estimated 750,000 ticket holders
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| | Claim that UK lottery money!
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| win prizes in the UK lottery, yet it's
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| | The UK lottery web site reveals that
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| always the big winner who attract the
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| | between March and July 2006, an
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| most attention.
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| | astounding £5,313,852.50 of prize money
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| UK Lottery Biggest Individual Win
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| | was unclaimed. What's more, unless the
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| The largest individual ticket win on the
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| | ticket owners get their skates on, by
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| UK lottery was back in June 1995, when
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| | January 2007 they will have relinquished
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| Paul Maddison and Mark Gardiner from
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| | their claims, and all that prize money
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| Brighton shared £22,590,829. The
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| | they won in the UK National Lottery will
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| winner's right to anonymity if they wish
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| | have passed on to the lottery's Good
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| it, was instated after the identity of a
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| | Causes.
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| single £17.44 million winner was leaked
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| | Recent National Lottery unclaimed prizes
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| to the press in December 1994. The shy
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| | The unclaimed cash include two cool
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| ticket holder, an Asian factory worker
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| | £250,000 prizes, one for a EuroMillions
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| from Blackburn, was easily tracked down
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| | draw (who said we never get anything out
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| by the media.
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| | of Europe?) and one for a Thunderball
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| UK National Lottery Biggest Jackpot Win
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| | draw. Perhaps the most amazing unclaimed
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| The largest UK National Lottery jackpot
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| | amounts are the TWO jackpot wins of
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| was £42,008,610, shared by three ticket
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| | £1,666,667 for the same date, Saturday
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| holders back in January 1996. The largest
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| | 29 April 2006. What tremendous event
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| European individual winner was on the
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| | could have caused two lucky winners to
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| Irish lottery, where a Limerick woman won
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| | not check their tickets, one in
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| £77million, whilst in Spain an entire
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| | Warwickshire and one in Glasgow? Why,
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| town won a life-changing US$263 on the El
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| | footballer Wayne Rooney breaking his
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| Gordo lottery.
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| | metatarsal bone just six weeks before the
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| The Biggest Lottery Win in the World
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| | opening match of the World Cup of course!
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| Yet all these lottery wins pale into
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| | The biggest National Lottery unclaimed
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| insignificance beside the largest win of
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| | prize?
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| all, $365 million, (£210 million) won by
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| | Back in August 2006, the Doncaster Town
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| a lucky Powerball ticket holder in the US
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| | Crier was employed to try and jog the
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| state of Nebraska. Alain Maboussou, an
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| | memory of one winner, whose enormous
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| immigrant from the Republic of Congo
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| | £9,476,995 jackpot from a Wednesday draw
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| working at a meatpacking plant, caused a
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| | was still languishing in the uk lottery
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| massive stir by not claiming his money
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| | bank account a month later. Again, the
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| straight away. Needless to say, he quit
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| | winning date is significant, as it was
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| his job after winning!
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| | the day that London won the right to
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| The National Lottery: Unclaimed prizes
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| | stage to 2012 Olympics. Perhaps the
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| and sports!
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| | winner was another forgetful sports fan!
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