Sir John Major decided ministers should be seen buying tickets to publicise the launch of the prize in November 1994.

Simon Jones, 40, from Cardiff, appears grinning in the new wedding-themed commercial alongside other guests that was aired on Monday to advertise the £69million Euromillions jackpot.

A British holiday resort is due to reopen as it completes the 10-month £2.7million restoration. Great Yarmouth's Waterways was a big hit in the 1950s and people say it is 'magnificent'.

Vicky Mitchell, from Halifax, (pictured with her partner, Adam Fry) used the last £1.50 left in her online account from a previous win to buy a line for the August 12 draw.

Kashaf Ali Khan later admitted money laundering by using criminal money to buy the house in his father's name in Solihull. He's now sold the property to pay off the confiscation order.

The move follows a study showing chain stores are closing outlets at a record rate of 16 a day, ripping the heart out of communities and creating ghost towns.

Edward Putman, (pictured filming members of the press outside court today) 54, of Hertfordshire, claimed the jackpot on 28 August 2009 - just 10 days before his ticket from 11 March was due to expire.

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.

Ticket holders around the UK are anxiously checking their numbers as the balls for one of the largest ever prizes is revealed. The numbers are: 40, 18, 11, 02, 46, and the Lucky Stars are: 04, 01

Neil Casson, 52, of Galgate, Lancashire, cheated lovers, financiers and businesses out of more than £300,000 claiming he had won £1.25million on the National Lottery.

The excitement has been building so much for the blockbuster jackpot that lottery players managed to crash the website earlier this evening in the scramble to get a ticket.

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.

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.

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.

Rebecca McGoff, 37, from Manchester, told FEMAIL she came up with the concept for Buump Active after she felt lonely and isolated after both her pregnancies.

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.

Ryan Hoyle, a 38-year-old joiner from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, has been revealed as the EuroMillions winner of £58million, seeing him rank ninth on the National Lottery millionaires' list.

Self-employed joiner Ryan Hoyle, 38, of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, whose mother works as a school cleaner and father works in a factory, won £58,366,487 in a EuroMillions jackpot.

Anti-Trump protests including a 'baby Trump' balloon took place in Dublin today in the President's absence, while Mr Trump returned from France to Doonbeg.

Richard Millett, 50, launched libel action after Mr Corbyn made comments about him on television that he viewed as defamatory, MailOnline revealed last year.

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.

The controversial writer and broadcaster announced her decision to leave Australia for the UK during September 2017 after receiving an onslaught of criticism for a controversial post.

He is busy promoting his new television series This Time Next Year, taking part in dozens of radio, TV and newspaper interviews. 

David Clennon, 76, says he did not submit an audition tape for Netflix project Sycamore/Hit and Run, produced by Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz, because of his solidarity with people of Palestine.

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.

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.

Barbara Greaves, from Ohio, reported her female Beagle, Trouble, missing from her East Palestine yard on January 3. Two days later, the dog's detached head was found on the owner's property.

Jnaid Salama, 30, also John D. Calvin, was arrested after his check for $10,995 surgery to change the shape and size of his nose was rejected. He gave it to a clinic in Seattle, Washington.

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.

While she is known for her down to earth personality, rumours have started to swirl that radio host Jackie 'O' Henderson can also be quite the diva. 

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.

Michael Brennan, a regional director for Florida Senator Marco Rubio, resigned following the battery arrest after allegedly beating his wife on Friday night.

Viewed by many as a likely- and popular- vice presidential candidate in the upcoming elections, the admission that Florida Senator Marco Rubio was a Mormon may hinder his chances at the seat.

As Marco Rubio's autobiography hit shelves it was revealed he is not being considered as Mitt Romney’s vice president in November’s US elections, according to reports.

Grassroots Republicans were livid that Rubio, 40, one of his party’s rising stars and its most prominent Latino voice, was being passed over without a serious look.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has been criticised for describing the age of the earth as a 'great mystery' even though almost all scientists agree that it is 4.54 billion years old.

The 2016 hopeful won't say whether or not he's smoked the substance because he feels no good will come from answering the question.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is considering a possible presidential run. The incident took place at a 'Team Marco 2016' summit where he was speaking to 300 donors at the Delano Hotel in South Beach.

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.

Jeanette Rubio is responsible for 13 of the citations, and four belong to the Republican presidential candidate. The Florida couple has agreed to attend remedial driving school four different times.

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida on Friday embraced the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act and called for expanding it through tax credits to businesses that offer paid leave.

GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Friday blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin as 'a gangster and a thug,' and vowed to take a hard line against him if he reaches the Oval Office.

Marco Rubio effectively swatted down questions about his personal finances during last week's presidential debate. His bookkeeping is now the subject of a new review, though.

Marco Rubio is purposely smacking around Ted Cruz, as the two U.S. senators are rising above the other traditional politicos in the crowded Republican pack, which Donald Trump still leads.

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.