Edward Putman, 54, of Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, is accused of working with an insider to con the lottery operator Camelot into handing over an unclaimed jackpot.

The National Lottery website has crashed as punters try to make last-minute bids to grab a record £169m EuroMilions jackpot that must go tonight.

Andy Carter, from The National Lottery, said, 'This is the biggest win ever on The National Lottery and we look forward to helping the ticket-holder start to enjoy their new found wealth.'

The former model, 47, urned heads ahead of her dance stint as she attended the National Lottery Awards 2019 at London 's BBC Television Centre on Tuesday evening.

The former Made In Chelsea star, 29, and the singer, 38, attended the National Lottery Awards 2019 at London's BBC Television Centre on Tuesday evening.

As the National Lottery celebrates its 25th anniversary this month on November 19, here are a list of questions to keep your brain ticking.

Buying one ticket every week over the life of Britain's National Lottery would have cost £1,625. The same amount, used to buy shares, would have generated £4,000, an investment firm found.

Twenty-five winners who hit the jackpot over 25 consecutive years of The National Lottery. The National Lottery celebrates its first ever draw on November 19, 1994.

Sarah Cockings (pictured), 36, who lives in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, with her partner and three children, won £3,045,705 on April 30, 2005, when she was just 21.

National Lottery is giving ticket holders free entry to more than 500 UK venues, which have received funding, for its 25th birthday and to say thanks to players who contribute £40billion to good causes.

Keith Butterley, 43, from Sheffield, threatened to jump from the building with the toddler, before making on a bike with the child balanced on the handle bars.

Despite winning the £1 million jackpot on Saturday, Didzis Pirags who works as a chef in Broughton, Preston, still worked all the way through Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

John and Allison McDonald, of Stockton on Tees, County Durham, matched all six numbers on a Lucky Dip ticket then found out three days later that their son Ewan, 15, was cancer free.

Anwar Batson has been jailed for nine months after pleading guilty to four offences under the Computer Misuse Act, at Southwark Crown Court today. He used 'Sentry MBA' programme.

Ron and Joan Brumhill from Waterlooville in Hampshire scooped the life-changing prize after matching five main numbers and the bonus ball in the Lotto draw on December 21 last year.

Sofina Sarwar, 34, of Leicester, denies knowing anything about the money Haroon Cassim, 36, took from Camelot and Yopa Property while he worked for both firms between 2010 and 2018.

Liz Nicholl is stepping down as the chief executive of UK Sport after 19 years at the agency... during which she helped Team GB go from 36th to second in the Olympic medals table

Father-of-two Mark Goodram, 36, from Bolton, claims to have bought the winning scratchcard from a Waitrose supermarket in Clapham, south London, in April last year.

A UK winner of a £57million EuroMillions jackpot is yet to claim the huge prize more than a week after winning - and may not know they are a multi-millionaire (pictured, The National Lottery sign).

The National Lottery is set to join the fight against coronavirus by distributing up to £300million in funds to support the most vulnerable across the UK during the crisis.

The National Lottery has announced a slew of campaigns for organisations all over the UK hit by the coronavirus outbreak, with a £600 million fund set-up to help.

The National Lottery website and app are back up and running ahead of tonight's £5million draw after being down for nine hours today due to a power failure.

Ancient DNA suggests the Philistines descended from migrants who crossed the Mediterranean and reached the shores of modern-day Israel, Palestine and Jordan more than 3,000 years ago.

Yahya Al-Saud (pictured), who is notorious for praising terrorism in Palestine, was greeted at Portcullis House by Labour frontbencher Fabian Hamilton.

Dunkirk veteran Doug Jones has finally received his medals on his 100th birthday after refusing to collect them because he wanted to avoid 'glorifying' the conflict. He was evacuated on a ferry.

Incoming Harvard University freshman Ismail B. Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian refugee living in Lebanon, had his visa revoked hours after landing in the U.S. on Friday evening.

A 17-year-old Palestinian and Harvard freshman who was denied entry to the US last month has been allowed into the country to start classes at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

Prof. Simon Schama has hit out after it was revealed Ash Sarkar will feature in the BBC documentary The Rise of The Nazis despite defending someone who graffited the Warsaw Ghetto.

Daniel Lyons (pictured) from the Isle of Wight who was one of the last surviving Normandy landing veterans, passed away at the age of 94.

Lyn Boyd, who was elected to Durham County Council by 919 votes in 2017, was reported to the Labour Party on February 2 over a whole host of material allegedly shared on her Facebook timeline.

Brian Stanley William Fortune, 95, fought in Palestine in 1944-45 as a member of the Durham Light Infantry, but nothing else is known about his service.

A new featurelength set to air on Good Friday, stars Game of Thrones' Essie Davis as Miss Phryne Fisher. The heroine swings between the Middle East and England, as she battles crime in the 1920s.

Ms Abdel-Magied left Australia in 2017 after being heavily criticised over an April 25 tweet where she used the phrase 'lest we forget' to make a political point.

Marco Rubio couldn't have planned to cause a viral sensation around his water bottle when he gave last week's response to the State of the Union, but now that it's happening he's capitalizing on the moment.

The Republican senator for Florida (pictured) took to Twitter to issue a condemnation of Mr Obama's climbdown, saying 'we do need more degrees that lead to #jobs'.

Obama didn't notify members of Congress about the trade until it was happening, but the deal, involving the U.S., Qatar and the Taliban, likely took weeks to engineer.

The Florida senator used a word-association game to turn his fire on the Democrat, who is expected to run for the White House, as he spoke at the CPAC convention in Maryland.

Monday's site is where the US processed Cuban exiles who fled Castro's communist regime. Rubio was accused of embellishing his parents' story to make it seem like they were among them.

At Miami's Freedom Tower, known as the 'Ellis Island of the South,' the 43-year-old Floridian proclaimed that he's all-in for 2016, joining fellow Republicans Ted Cruz and Rand Paul in the contest.

In a speech on foreign policy in South Carolina on Friday, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio questioned the totalitarian regimes around the world.

Sen. Marco Rubio, who has the worst attendance record in the US Senate, proposed a bill on Tuesday to authorize the firing of delinquent Veterans Administration employees

Odds makers are giving both Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush better odds to win the Republican nomination than the current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.

'These aren’t disgruntled or dis-empowered people,' he says of the murderers who killed nearly 130 in Paris and allegedly brought down a Russian plane in October. 'These are radical terrorists who want to kill us.'

Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio on Thursday said he has considered life as a presidential father - and likes the idea of the Secret Service watching over his two teenage daughters

Orlando Cicilia was arrested for his part in the illicit operation in 1987 during Miami's narcotics heyday when Republican presidential hopeful Rubio was just 16.

The Florida Senator and presidential hopeful looked heavy-eyed and sleepy as he listened to President Barack Obama as he delivered his final State of the Union address to Congress.

President Donald Trump took a sip from Sen. Marco Rudio's playbook and guzzled bottled water in the middle of a televised speech.

After Marco Rubio pointed out several misspelled tweets from Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner went back and deleted the tweets, later posting them with the correct spelling.

Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh on Saturday, rebuked liberals for 'stirring rage' and 'gloating' of an anticipated voter backlash.

Marco Rubio is being criticized for a number of tweets he has posted over the past few days about the increasingly fraught situation in Venezuela, including one in which eh confused a dam.