Back down under in OZ, 74-year-old won an amazing $50 million lottery jackpot. BRian Caswell a keen amateur gardener said that he’d likely spend part of his jackpot prize employing a gardening expert to teach him how to grow better carrots.

Mr Caswell told reporters that for years depsite his success in many other garden vedge that he’s just always struggled with carrots. Brian spends hours every day outside at his prize-winning allotment. Together with his wife their retirement has been filled with endless enjoyable days maintaining the patch with Joan, 71 near their home in Halliwell.

“I’ve been trying to grow carrots ever since I’ve been on that allotment and I’ve never had any success,” he said. He said the couple had decided to go public with the news of their huge win in last Friday’s Euromillion draw on the advice of lottery operator Camelot.

“How could you keep that secret?” he said. “The answer is you can’t.” His wife said she was still adjusting to her sudden wealth, which saw the couple’s win splashed on the front of the Sun and the Daily Mirror newspapers.

“What I’m going to do now is bring a professional in and say, ‘Right, sort that out’.”

Over in Australia, a couple from Queensland couple shared the jackpot with man from Adelaide. Both are today $53 million better off in their bank accounts after together winning a share of Australia’s largest ever super lotto jackpot draw. Lottery entrants had a 45-1 chance of winning something after the roll-over, but still that did not prevent locals from purchasing over 10 million tickets from stores and online for this record breaking lottery draw.

The Australian lottery draw was originally planned for $90 million but was increased pushed up by a huge amount of last minute lottery ticket purchases from people hopig to win their share of the bumper payout. It meant the first prize rose to over $105 million with a complete prize pool of over $175 million.

Rebecca Payne from the South Australian Lotteries Board had the pleasure of notifiying the one of the winners - the annonymous man from Adelaide as he’s become known. All that’s know about him is that he’s in his 40s and has been a regular lottery player for over 20 years.

“He said, ‘I can’t quite believe this’ and he was in quite a state of shock as it was,” Ms Payne said. “That’s when he said to me, ’so how much have I won - $2 million, $3 million?’ “And I said to him, ‘are you sitting down?’ And that’s when I said, ‘you’ve actually won slightly more than that - you’ve won $53 million’.

Italian Ugo Verni wins £130m in Europe’s biggest ever lottery prize.

Superenalotto winningticket that was announced on Satruday has been reaching the news headlines all round the world as the search begun for the winner of the worlds biggest jackpot prize.

Whilst not officially confirmed, Ugo Verni is the man on everyone’s lips as the lucky Superenalotto jackpot winner.

Stay tuned as we learn more!

In a little town called Bagnone in Italy the population numbering a little over 2000 are sharing in the success of one man who this week won the jackpot of 146.9m euros (£128.3m; $211.8m).

Though the identity of the winner remains clouded in secrecy the Superenalotto lottery winner is said to be already inundated with requests for investment, funding and support of local community activities.

The national state news agency “Ansa” announced the winner on Saturday and claimed the the winner purchased the Superenalotto winning ticket at the Biffi coffee bar in Bagnone.   The cost of the ticket, a mere two euros !

It was the first time anyone had won the state-run Superenalotto since January. The previous biggest jackpot in its 12-year history was 100 million euros.

Reports are coming in from ANSA, the Italian news agency that the worlds largest lottery jackpot has  finally been won after weeks of roll overs.

The Superenalotto jackpot has reached over 130 million as with each draw no winner was announced.  Initial reports say the ticket was bought in a small village in Northern Italy

A lovely story straight out of America. When a free Fantasy 5 lottery ticket converted into a $1,298,332 jackpot win for a man in Georgia. Robert Patterson Jr. won the prize with a free ticket matching the required 5 winning numbers in the July 17 Fantasy 5 drawing.

“It was on a free ticket, and I think that’s probably important for everyone to know,” said Robert, who won the jackpot. By matching two of five numbers in a previous Fantasy 5 draw his prize was a free ticket for the next coming lottery draw. Robert then used a lottery checker to review the results from his free ticket and was shocked and excited to discover he’s won the jackpot.

“I just looked at it and said, ‘I’m going to travel,’ ” he explained. “I don’t know where yet but probably Europe and some islands. It is exciting, the possibilities.”

William Morris, Jr. walked into the Fruitland Exxon one July morning with just $10 in his pocket. He walked out with a $50,000 winning scratch-off. “I hesitated to buy the ticket for the lotto. It was the funniest feeling going in with all I had.”

The 54-year-old from Salisbury said he plays scratch-offs every chance he gets. He came to Lottery Headquarters Monday afternoon, still shaking. “I am still jittery,” he said. “I’ve worked for many years and have never seen a check like that!”

William plans to share his winnings with family and friends. “My goal in life is to help people,” he said. “I’ve needed help, so I know what it is like to be in need.”

You to can have a chance of scoring all the California lottery winning numbers just by buying a lottery ticket online.

This is the kind of lottery winner story we love to hear and love to share with our readers. Often the kind of story you read of in America, but every now and again a great one pops up over the Atlantic. In the UK you can had to a McDonald’s fast food outlet in Cardiff, Wales, UK and meet you’re very own lotto jackpot millionaire. Luke Pittard won 1.3 million pounds and celebrated in the usual fashion; he bought a new home and spent a fortune on a dream wedding and honeymoon holiday in the Canary Islands.

After the thrill of winning and novelty of the cash wore off Luke realized that he really missed the lifestyle and simplicity of his old job. So he asked to go back and couldn’t be happier, getting up at the crack of dawn to flip burgers for £5.85 an hour. “They all think I’m a bit mad but I tell them there’s more to life than money,” he said. “I loved working at McDonald’s before I became a millionaire and I’m really enjoying being back there again.”

But 18 months later, the novelty of early retirement wore off. “Lots of my old McDonald’s workmates came to our wedding and I had kept in touch with them all the time, so I just thought: ‘Why not go back?’” said Mr Pittard.

In Canada Lottery life it was a case of good and bad news for Barry Shell. The good news was when he discovered that he’d won over $4 million in the lotto, the bad news was that by the end of the day he’d ended up arrested and placed in jail. Barry Shell, from Brampton, Ontario in Canada chose to pick up his winning check for $4,377,298, which was the jackpot prize in the July 18 draw for the Lotto 6/49.

“I went to the store and checked my ticket on the self-serve ticket checker,” Shell was quoted as saying in a news release from the Ontario Loterie and Gaming Corporation. “As soon as I saw how much I had won, I grabbed a pen and signed my ticket.”

On Monday afternoon, a happy and joyous Barry Shell was published in a photo holding up his winning check outside the OLG headquarters on Dundas Street West in Toronto. After the photo was taken he walked away from the building and straight into the waiting arms of the local Peel Police officers. Shell was apparantly wanted by police on a six-year-old charge for failing to appear in court in relation to a theft of $5,000 and being in possession of property obtained through crime.

According to a spokesman for the OLG, every lottery winner undergoes a security check, and if anything is turned up during the course of the investigation the matter is turned over to the Ontario Provincial Police. Shell, 45, was held overnight and appeared in court on Tuesday. He has been charged and released.

The news release said Shell “has no immediate plans for the windfall.”

Back in the USA on May 9, 2000, Larry and Nancy Ross of Shelby Township, Michigan, won part of the $363 million Big Game lottery jackpot, to date this payout is the biggest in the history of the lottery in North America.

The Big Game which is now known as the Mega Millions, is a multi-state lottery game which can be entered in the states of; Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey and Virginia. Tickets for the lotto cost $1. On top of that there are an additional 8 ways to win a jackpot including a range of cash prizes ranging from $1 to $150,000.

“We still can’t believe we won!” said Larry of his family’s unbelievable good fortune as they claimed the prize on May 12, 2000. “The whole thing is overwhelming and we are still adjusting to the shock. We saw the clerk who had sold us the ticket on TV. We re-checked the ticket and found we had the winner!”

After using the lottery checker The Ross family decided to cash in their $181.5 million share of the jackpot prize in a single lump-sum payment which worked out as approximately $90 million (after taxes have been deducted).