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National Lottery

  • Outgoing lottery operator Camelot faced with falling ticket sales and Brits ‘tightening their belts’

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    Falling sales of tickets and instant win games amid signs that players had “tightened their belts” in the face of soaring costs are hitting outgoing UK National Lottery operator Camelot hard. Camelot, which recently launched legal action against the Gambling Commission after losing the lottery’s next licence to rival Allwyn, saw sales drop 3 per [...]

  • National Lottery faces possible suspension as Camelot legal battle drags on

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    The UK gambling regulator has warned that the National Lottery could be suspended for the first time ever.

  • UK’s biggest-ever National Lottery winners go public with £184m jackpot from lucky dip

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    The country’s biggest-ever National Lottery winners have gone public with their £184m win. The lucky pair banked the giant EuroMillions jackpot in the draw on Tuesday May 10, 2022 and are now celebrating with an astonishing £184,262,899.10. The Gloucester based Joe and Jess Thwaite bought their EuroMillions Lucky Dip ticket for the massive draw on [...]

  • UK ticket holder richer than Adele after £184m lottery jackpot

    May 11, 2022

    One lucky winner in the UK has bagged the country’s biggest-ever National Lottery prize, with a £184m jackpot. The winning main EuroMillions numbers are: 03, 25, 27, 28, 29 while the winning Lucky Star numbers are 04, 09. The EuroMillions winner is now richer than celebrities including boxer Anthony Joshua, who is recorded as having [...]

  • Camelot’s National Lottery legal battle could drain £500m from good causes

    May 8, 2022

    The former boss of lottery operator Camelot has urged the gambling commission to delay the transfer of the firm’s licence to new operator Allwyn, as the costly legal battle could cut resources for good causes. Dame Dianne Thompson has written in a letter to the commission first reported by the Mail on Sunday that a legal [...]

  • Italian lottery operator Sisal mulls joining Camelot’s High Court challenge

    April 10, 2022

    Italian lottery operator Sisal is considering teaming up with Camelot to challenge the Gambling Commission’s decision to pick Czech firm Allwyn to run the UK’s National Lottery. Sisal is weighing up plans to back Camelot’s High Court bid to overturn the Gambling Commission’s decision, after Camelot lodged a legal challenge against the government agency earlier [...]

  • Czech billionaire set to get $750m windfall after listing lottery operator in New York

    April 3, 2022

    Czech billionaire Karel Komárek is set to a receive a payout worth $750m (£572m), after floating the gambling company, that is set to take over from Camelot in running the UK’s National Lottery, on the New York stock exchange. Komárek is set to be the main beneficiary of a $750m cash windfall, after he lists [...]

  • A good Monday for two pandemic NHS workers as they hit the jackpot with £1m win

    March 28, 2022

    Two friends from Northampton are waking up as rich Brits this morning after winning a half share of a £1m Lotto prize, which they originally thought was £1000.  NHS workers Marion Wood, 60, and Michael Williams, 67, matched five main numbers plus the Bonus Ball in The National Lottery Lotto. Wood, who works at Northampton [...]

  • Camelot challenges Gambling Commission over National Lottery’s contract

    March 26, 2022

    Camelot is expected to challenge the Gambling Commission over the regulator’s decision to award the National Lottery contract to multinational Allwyn. The group will take the gambling regulator to court, accusing the Gambling Commission of breaking the law when it discarded Camelot’s score in the system that measures the bids, the Telegraph reported. According to [...]

  • Bad luck again: Camelot UK hit with £3.15m fine for mobile app failings

    March 22, 2022

    To add to its bout of recent bad luck, National Lottery operator Camelot UK has been whacked with a £3.15m fine by the gambling watchdog for failures linked to its mobile app.

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