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EuroMillions lottery £120m
Saturday, November 11, 2006 posted 05:50 AM EST
THE EuroMillions lottery jackpot will soar to a massive £120MILLION next Friday after last night’s draw rolled over again
— for the ELEVENTH time.
Millions of Britons swamped shops yesterday dreaming of bagging the £103million top prize up for grabs.
Sales around Britain soared by 450 per cent to two million an hour — 530 a second — in the run-up to last night’s 7.30pm
cut-off.
The late boost pushed the jackpot up by £3million. But at 9.45pm the news came through that the jackpot had not been won.
A spokesman for Camelot said: “The UK and Europe have been gripped with EuroMillions fever this week, and with the jackpot
rolling this is set to continue.”
The huge prize MUST be paid out next week — one way or another.
If no punter matches all seven winning numbers, the pot will be shared between those next in line.
An outright winner would be guaranteed a place in the Sunday Times Rich List. If a single ticketholder takes the mega-prize
they will share 554th position with Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne.
Shopkeeper Jeanette Barnes at Budgens in St Ives, Cambs, said yesterday: “One man came in and bought 50 tickets in one
go. Then someone bought another 30."
Even Lotto lout Michael Carroll, who won £9.7million in 2002, bought a ticket at his newsagent’s in Downham Market, Norfolk.
The biggest jackpot offered to date in the UK was £125million in February. But it went to two punters in France and one
in Portugal.
The jackpot had previously rolled over ten times since August.
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