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A guy in my local had 5 and the bonus ball. He won about £140k. Paid his and his mums mortgage off and that was it all gone!

 

A woman who lives in my mate's road won £10M. She gave her two chav sons 1m each.

One of them spent the lot in 6 months and was back begging her for more. Mind you, he had a nice car and stunning looking girlfriend. Strange really because his GFs before he had a million were all munters. Odd that.

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A bloke in redruth about 40 mins from where I live won £450k twice

 

 

Here is the article.

 

Derek Ladner £958,284

A bowling fanatic from Redruth has literally doubled his money after winning two £479,142 shares of the jackpot - £958,284 in total - in the Lotto draw on Wednesday 11th July. This makes him the first ever single publicity jackpot winner to have won twice in the same Lotto draw.

 

This fantastic double helping of lottery luck happened as a result of a fortuitous mistake, after delivery driver, Derek Ladner, forgot that he already had bought his ticket that week and bought another one using his regular numbers. By another quirk of fate both tickets were bought at Tesco stores, one in Redruth the other in Penzance.

 

Derek commented: "It has really not sunk in yet. To win the jackpot once is amazing but to win it twice is unbelievable. Especially as I picked up my first prize and had forgotten about the other ticket. It was only a day or two after I remembered I had it."

 

Derek and his wife, Dawn, who are both avid bowlers and play for Bickford Smiths Bowling Club in Tuckingmill, cannot believe the timing of their windfall as Derek is due to retire on Friday. The couple are now making plans for the future - as well as modernising their house in Redruth, they are planning a luxury holiday to Tenerife. They will also be spending some time enjoying their hobbies of bowling and supporting Redruth Rugby Club.

 

Derek said: "The two wins could not have come at a better time! We had already made a lot of plans for our retirement together. This win means we can now really enjoy ourselves a lot more and treat our friends and family."

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A guy in my local had 5 and the bonus ball. He won about £140k. Paid his and his mums mortgage off and that was it all gone!.

 

Ive always thought whats the point. your morgage aint the a hardship just something everyone pays. he might have well solded up and used the 140K as a deposist of a new amazing house.

 

One of them spent the lot in 6 months and was back begging her for more.[/QOUTE]

 

Idiot! really pisses me off that, £1million is enough to sort you out for life. set up your own business of get onto that high ends of the housing market debt free. buy a really nice car and still have money left..

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One of them spent the lot in 6 months and was back begging her for more.[/QOUTE]

 

Idiot! really pisses me off that, £1million is enough to sort you out for life. set up your own business of get onto that high ends of the housing market debt free. buy a really nice car and still have money left..

 

 

I think you need around £3million nowadays to live the life of a millionaire so I've heard. So £1million is small change really, especially if you're inherently an idiot as you say ;)

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I don't win on the lottery but win around £300 a month on the premium bonds :D

 

 

You lucky git! We have a yet another 11 member syndicate going at work here for Premium Bonds, and in the 19 months we've invested (£10 each per month), we've won absolutely bugger all! At least our investment is still there, unlike wasting money on the lottery.

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You lucky git! We have a yet another 11 member syndicate going at work here for Premium Bonds, and in the 19 months we've invested (£10 each per month), we've won absolutely bugger all! At least our investment is still there, unlike wasting money on the lottery.
Yeah but you'd need about 90k in PBs to win £300 per month. (3x people investing the 30k maximum)

I don't suppose your work syndicate has anywhere near that much in it, d they?

 

My in-laws both have the max amount of PBs but they don't do as well as Col does.

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Yeah but you'd need about 90k in PBs to win £300 per month. (3x people investing the 30k maximum)

I don't suppose your work syndicate has anywhere near that much in it, d they?

 

My in-laws both have the max amount of PBs but they don't do as well as Col does.

 

I should add this is my first 3 months of investment :D so there is plenty of time for it to not pay out. but at the moment it is giving a 10% return which is very good.

Fingers crossed it remains as good :D

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I've never won a bean cos I don't play it except for the odd scratch card.

A fella I from a different depot in my company who used to show his face in our office every now and again won £100k about six months ago though. Think he's still working as well even though he's 60-odd! :blink:

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Yeah but you'd need about 90k in PBs to win £300 per month. (3x people investing the 30k maximum)

I don't suppose your work syndicate has anywhere near that much in it, d they?

 

My in-laws both have the max amount of PBs but they don't do as well as Col does.

 

 

Well actually no we don't anywhere near that amount, more like £2,000! We haven't even won a £50 bonus in that time, and supposedly its comparable to Building Society interest. Pah!

 

My fellow syndicate members think I bought the Supra with the money, and haven't owned up to any wins! Gits. ;)

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here is my lucky streak from playing the lottory online, won a 10ner on the lotto and 30 on daily play!

 

Internet 05/08/07 - 04:00 Win payment to Account 644361877 Lotto + Dream Number

View Ticket 479288704 +£10.00 £40.00

Internet 05/08/07 - 04:00 Win payment to Account 644361865 Daily Play

View Ticket 479140594 +£30.00 £30.00

 

and the 2nd week after i won £5

 

Internet 19/08/07 - 04:07 Win payment to Account 654255634 Daily Play

View Ticket 485956722 +£5.00 £5.00

 

best luck with winnings i've ever had shame it wasnt enought to retire early :(

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My best mate got 5 numbers and the bonus ball - he was in a 3 way syndicate with his Mom and Dad so didn't get it all. Not quite £140k for him though! Loads of winners that week so it was £55k - split 3 ways.

 

So he had about £18k at 21 years old! As you can imagine it didn't last long. Paid off his exsiting debts then went out and bought an Impreza (not so chavy at the time - about 7 years ago), a Raptor quad, KX250, huge TV, DVD, stereo etc etc

 

Blew the lot!

 

I should put a roll eyes smiley after that but as his best mate it felt like I'd won too! I did tell him to save some but couldn't help but want him to buy the Raptor!! I was sooo excited!:D

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