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Delay over raising minimum age for buying National Lottery tickets is branded ‘farcical’ by MPs Children can spend up to £350 a week gambling on fixed odds games online In July a group of peers issued a report calling for the age limit to be raised to 18 Camelot said it will take nine months … Read more
A woman desperate to see her mother face-to-face for the first time since March has been offered a Christmas Day Zoom call instead as councils and care home managers were today accused of acting like ‘dictators’ by refusing to let Covid-tested visitors in. The woman from southern England has been in contact with pressure group Rights for Residents who … Read more
‘Rigged’ national lottery claim after 20 players share jackpot with numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 in South Africa The six consecutive digits left 20 players with 5.7million rand (£279,000) each While no less likely than any other combination, it is unusual for 20 people to win Perplexed South Africans took to social … Read more
A cruel postcode lottery means heartbroken relatives face bans on seeing loved ones in care homes over Christmas. Families are being banned from visiting care homes over the festive season, despite a Government pledge that mass visitor testing will allow all residents to hold hands and hug once again. Some care providers say they are … Read more
Gregg Wallace has sweetly said that he ‘won the lottery’ wife Anne-Marie walked into his life. The MasterChef star, 56, first met his 34-year-old wife on Twitter back in 2013 and they have since welcomed a son called Sid, 18 months. Talking about their romance, Gregg said that love is an ‘absolute game of chance’ and … Read more
Families face a heartbreaking postcode lottery over Christmas visits to their loved ones in care homes, with the elderly still facing council bans in parts of Britain. Despite ministers saying last week that residents should be allowed to have visitors, an audit by the Mail has revealed at least eight areas of the country where … Read more
Three men are accused of fleecing National Lottery out of £10,000 after ‘claiming they were children’s charity workers to get a grant’ Men appear in court charged with getting grant after claiming to work for charity Allegedly said cash would fund project called ‘Community Learning for Children’ Atanu Bhattacharjee, Anisur Rahman Khan and Kabir Chowdhury all deny … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of people still on breaks from their mortgages and unsecured debts face a potential ‘lender lottery’ from next month as blanket protections are removed. Banking body UK Finance said financially vulnerable people benefiting from 323,700 payment holidays across mortgages, credit cards and personal loans will be offered help ‘tailored to their individual … Read more
‘Rollover Romeo’ lottery winner who scooped £11m jackpot in 1996 and is now worth £22m divorces his childhood-sweetheart wife – who is set to get half his fortune Karl Crompton took home his enourmous £11million win aged just 23 in 1996 He was formerly dubbed Britain’s most eligible bachelor and ‘Rollover Romeo’ But he married Nicole Roach … Read more
Britain’s largest building society has launched another savings lottery, giving those who lock at least £100 away for 18 months a one-time shot at winning £10,000. Launched a week after National Savings & Investments announced it would slash the number of non-£1million Premium Bond payouts from December as part of a range of cuts to … Read more