Lotto Windfall

A Pensioner was banned from the Tesco store in Addlestone in the Uk for one day after taking all of his clothes off over a row about a Euromillion lottery ticket. The gentleman Norman Matthews, 68 or Weybridge went into the superstor in Station Roas last Thursday and bought two lucky dip tickets for Friday Nights Euromillions Lottery draw and a £2 scratch card.

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Mr Matthews paid with a £10 note but moments later the cashier refused to give him either his tickets or his change because she had mistakenly thought she had already handed over the tickets and the money.

The gentleman, a regular at the Tesco Extra store showed the lady his wallet to show there was no Euromillions ticket or £5 in there and she accused him of putting it in his pocket. He says he then requested to be searched by a security guard but the guard refused.
Shocked at being called a thief Mr Matthews stripped to his underwear to prove that he hadn’t stolen the tickets or the cash.
He was then banned from the store for one day until he calmed down. The next day the manager of the store apologied to Mr Matthews saying the ticket hadn’t registered on the lottery terminal.

Mr Matthews maintains that he did what he did out of principle and that the shopkeeper should have listened to what he had to say. He feels that tescos could have dealt with the situation better than they did.

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www.euromillion.com – A study into the Big Lottery Fund, the organisation that deals with cash for good causes from the UK National Lottery has shown that Labour Party constituencies in the UK get far more funding for good causes than the constituencies of any other political party.

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Labour areas in fact get four times more cash than Conservative areas and even more than that in Liberal Democrat constituencies.
The study has raised concerns on lottery cash and spending and whether the Labour party is using lottery cash to sweeten its grassroots areas.

The party strenuously deny any allegations of wrongdoing, citing the fact that Labour constituencies are just naturally more deprived areas and that would lead to a misrepresentative figure, making it look like the National Lotto Big Lottery fund is actually giving these areas preferential treatment.

It’s hard to deny the allegations though when you consider that the top five community projects funded by the national Lottery big lottery fund in 2008 were all Labour areas, every single one.

This just gives more weight to the Conservative party regards the upcoming elections and will do no good for the Labour party’s already dwindling popularity.
Conservative have now made it part of their manifesto to ensure that cash is distributed fairly if they should come to power. euromillion.com