Showing posts with label euro millions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label euro millions. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 May 2009

Lotto Winner Feared For Her Job

euro millions lotto ticketEuro Million's biggest lottery winner didn't know she had won €126 million (US$170 million) because she was in bed with flu.

The lucky but ill woman was the only jackpot winner of Friday's Euro Millions drawing.

She failed to realize her numbers had come up until she dragged herself to work on Monday to save herself from being fired in recession-hit Spain.

I love stories like this. I feel so happy for her to win so much money. I hope she has the strength of character to not let it ruin her life as it can so easily do. I also hope she does a lot of good with it. Many, many people can be helped with such wealth without it even affecting the amount of cash she has at her disposal right now.

Sunday, 3 May 2009

Euro Millions

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IT still could be EU! A – whopping £110million jackpot is now up for grabs after another lottery rollover.

Despite a huge clamour for tickets across Europe last week, no one claimed Friday’s – £89million – cash bonanza.

And the sixth rollover has sent ticket sales rocketing as Brits bid to scoop the world’s biggest ever jackpot.

The staggering sum dwarfs the –current British record held by Glasgow postal worker Angela Kelly, who landed – £35.4million in August 2007.

It also beats the £77million EuroMillions record jackpot won on a ticket bought by 45-year-old Dolores McNamara in – Limerick, Ireland, in July 2005.

The odds of striking gold – and becoming richer than mega-bucks celebs Wayne and Coleen Rooney and Katie Price combined – are 76,000,000-1.

But it hasn’t stopped punters flocking to local agents to snap up a £1.50 ticket.

Sales hit a peak of one million an hour in the run-up to Friday’s draw.

A spokesman said: “This could be our –biggest ever sales week.”

On Friday 16 players won £211,152.20 for matching five numbers and one lucky star.

I think it's a bit obscene having a jackpot of this size. Why on earth would anybody ever want that much money, above and beyond greed of course.

I'd make so many charities happy if I won it. I'd be rather happy myself to be honest. Butwhat would you do with such a huge amount of cash? Is it right that one person can scoop the lot?