London’s lottery winners not claiming prizes

Its easy to do, buy a lottery ticket, shove it in your pocket and forget about it, never remembering to see if your numbers came up. Some people who bought tickets in London this year could have an extra special Christmas if they fish out their old tickets and check their numbers as lottery operator Camelot says some big prizes have still gone unclaimed and there’s a 180 day limit from the date of the draw or the prize is lost.

A ticket bought in Ealing in August is worth £2,214,747 and the ticket holder has until 25 February 2008 to claim it, the numbers are 4, 6, 11, 17, 31, 41. Somebody else bought a Thunderball ticket in Kensington in November and its now worth £250,000, the numbers being 8, 10, 20, 29, 30, Thunderball 10, while someone up in Islington is leaving it late to pick up £98,381 after 3, 10, 21, 25, 29, 49 came up. The deadline for that ticketholder is 17 January 2008.

Elsewhere in Britain there’s someone in Devon blissfully unaware they’re sitting on a ticket worth £6,989,367 from a draw in September and have until 26 March 2008 to come forward. So if you play the lottery and have old tickets lying around its worth checking the numbers before binning them.