Deal or No Deal Winner Caroline Banana, who pocketed £95,000 in the popular Channel 4 game show in 2011, is in court next week to answer accusations from the Department of Work and Pensions of benefit fraud.
According to The Sun, Banana Pictured right on the Deal or No Deal show)will appear at North Staffordshire Justice Centre on February 20. There's nothing to say that Banana is guilty of anything; we will have to wait for the hearing to discover what actually happened.. More Winners who fell fould of the law on our main FindmeaJackpot site
The humungous £64 million Euromillions Jackpot is still to be claimed by a Stevenage and Hitchin winner. The winning ticket was bought in the Stevenage and Hitchin area, and the ticket holder matched the five main numbers and two Lucky Star numbers to hit the jackpot.
The winning EuroMillions numbers on Friday 8th June were 5, 11, 22, 34, 40 and the Lucky Star numbers were 9 and 11. The lucky ticket-holder has until 11pm on Wednesday 5 December 2012 to make a claim.
For the latest list of unclaimed prizes click here
Unclaimed Prizes Records, Facts and Figures:
The biggest unclaimed UK National Lottery prize to date is a £9.5 million prize in 2005, bought from Doncaster City Centre.
The world record for the highest unclaimed prize is US $31 million (£19 million) unclaimed Megamillions Jackpot ticket was bought in New York in 2006 (though it expeired in January 2007).
For the National Lottery players have 180 days to claim their winnings from the draw date.
If the prize goes unclaimed, the prize money goes to good cayses via the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Interest in unclaimed prizes also goes to the National Lottery Distribution Fund for allocation to good causes.
Unclaimed prizes for the 2010 financial year amounted to 1.5% of sales (c 3% of prizes) and totalled £83.1m (2009: £78.3m).
With the Euromillions jackpot at £133 million tomorrow, I found this really interesting article from John Caudwell, who made £1.5bn when he sold Phones4U, on how to spend it.
The advice to lottery winners was originally featured in The Daily Mirror. If anybody knows the ups and downs of riches, a billionaire would. It is addressed to £148 million winners Adrian and Gillian Bayford and is interesting stuff from Mr Caudwell. To read the article click here.
Tuesday November 6th's Euromillion Lotto jackpot is an estimated £106 million. And while you are getting your ticket, pop some money on the National Lottery Rollover Jackpot for Wednesday, expected to be £9.4 million.
If you do grab the Euromillions Rollover Jackpot, you will become the fourth biggest UK Lottery Winner, eclipsing Dave and Angela Dawes (pictured right)
Dave and Angela Dawes won the top prize in October 2011 in only their third go at the Euromillions Lottery. Lucky for them and galling for all of us who play twice a week and have won a top prize of £4.10!
The first thing they did when they won was to announce themselves “officially retired” – wouldn't we all want to do that! They also promised to make 20 of their friends millionaires.
The second biggest Euromillions Jackpot winners have been revealed as couple from Suffolk. Adrian and Gillian Bayford from Haverhill have been named as the lucky winners of the massive £148,656,000 EuroMillions jackpot prize for 10 August 2012). The jackpot had rolled-over 14 times before it had to be won.
Adrian and Gillian zoom into second place in The National Lottery Rich List, just behind Colin and Chris Weir from Largs who remain at the top of the list with their jackpot of £161,653,000 won in July 2011. This latest win continues the UK’s amazing run of luck on EuroMillions; the couple are the seventh big jackpot winners so far this year.
An interview with the lucky couple can be seen below.
With nobody winning Euromillions on Tuesday 24th July, the Euromillions Jackpot for Friday 27th July will be £105 million! Plus the chance to be one of 100 National Lottery Millionaires in the Euromillions Olympic Millionaire Raffle!
The one-off National Lottery draw to create 100 millionaires as a 'thank you' to players for helping fund the London Olympics will be drawn next week - all the latest news on this will appear on this page. Click here for the TV advert!
The EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle draw will take place on the night of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 27
Fridays Euromillions draw could be a huge one - with a Euromillions Jackpot over £100 million and 100 extra millionaires on the UK streets! On 27th July the National Lottery are creating 100 UK millionaires, with the EuroMillions UK Millionaire Raffle.
When you buy a EuroMillions ticket you are automatically entered into the UK Millionaire Raffle. Why not sign up for an account and play in advance today to make sure you don't miss out on your chance to be one of the lucky 100 UK millionaires? Click on the banner below to play now!
When purchasing your EuroMillions tickets online, simply select the 'Number of weeks' on your play slip as 2 or more – then you can buy your tickets for this week's draw and for the Friday 27th July draw at the same time!
Playing in advance gives you one less thing to worry about each week and is the best way to make sure you're in this unbelievable draw.
The previous big Euromillions promotion was in May when they made 18 millioniares with the millionaire raffle, as well as a £51 million Euromillions Jackpot.
Friday 22 June 2012
The June 8th EuroMillions jackpot prize of £63,837,543.60 has yet to be claimed from a ticket bought in the Stevenage & Hitchin Area. National Lottery players are being urged to check, double-check and triple-check their tickets for the chance to claim this staggering prize in time
Tuesday November 6th's Euromillion Lotto jackpot is an estimated £106 million. And while you are getting your ticket, pop some money on the National Lottery Rollover Jackpot for Wednesday, expected to be £9.4 million.
