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Virus grants are postcode lottery for small firms with some councils paying just one in ten eligible companies By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 22 April 2020 Desperate firms scrambling for emergency grants to survive the pandemic face a ‘postcode lottery’, with some councils … Read more
Apprentice life guard, 17, currently furloughed from her job wins set for life National Lottery draw and will pocket £10,000 every month for a year Harmony Dawes, from Brighton, won the prize on Lottery’s Set for Life game Her father burst into her room in the middle of the night to break the news Assuming … Read more
The National Lottery will divert £300m to support Britain’s most vulnerable amid coronavirus crisis in biggest UK non-government contribution since outbreak began By Danny Gallagher For Mailonline Published: 12:21 GMT, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 12:23 GMT, 28 March 2020 The National Lottery is set to join the fight against coronavirus by distributing up to … Read more
The cousin of a millionaire lottery winner has been locked up for raiding his relative’s home at knife point and snatching £55,000 in cash A man who burgled and robbed his cousin of £55,000 at knifepoint after he discovered she had won £1m on a scratchcard has been jailed. Gary Westcott, 40, from Rochdale, along … Read more
‘It’s cruelty’: Cystic fibrosis patient blasts postcode lottery after she is denied ‘miracle’ drug by her local hospital Megan Kellett-Jones, 28, hoped she would be given the drug Trikafta to help Her hospital is waiting for the treatment to be approved by drugs regulator NICE Drugs on the NHS – Orkambi and Symkevi – work … Read more
Amazon held talks on bid to takeover the National Lottery By Harriet Dennys For Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 23:47 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 23:47 GMT, 14 March 2020 Amazon held talks about bidding to run the National Lottery, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The discussions fizzled out, but the US tech … Read more
Asian cricket club of the year’s future is at risk because it refuses to take Lottery funding that is not acceptable for its mainly Muslim members Mount Cricket Club in Batley, West Yorkshire, needs £2m to improve its facilities Sports England, which gives donations to club, is funded by the National Lottery But most of … Read more
Petrol pump pirates! Motorists face ‘forecourt lottery’ with cost of filling up an average car varying by £18 at garages just two miles apart Analysis by The Mail on Sunday suggests cheapest unleaded petrol in country – at Costco warehouse in Manchester – is 115.7p per litre Most expensive, at motorway service station on M4 … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: The care cost lottery that leave thousands being forced to sell their homes By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:22 BST, 6 August 2019 | Updated: 10:06 BST, 7 August 2019 If you need any more proof that our care system is deeply flawed, then look no further than a type … Read more