Aberdeenshire woman wins £1 million in National Lottery after lucky dip

A LUCKY dip has won a woman from Aberdeenshire £1 million pounds in the lottery.

The woman, who has opted to remain anonymous, won the prize by matching the five main numbers plus the bonus ball in the draw on Wednesday, May 31. She plans to treat her family with the winnings.

The Aberdeenshire resident, who played a lucky dip via the National Lottery website, has become one of more than eight million players that win each week on The National Lottery’s range of games.

Interactive winners have the opportunity to release their name, remain anonymous or, like this winner, release some details through partial publicity.

Andy Carter, senior winners’ advisor at The National Lottery, said: “Huge congratulations to this woman for winning this fantastic prize.

"She has become a millionaire overnight and can look forward to making a million new memories with her windfall.”

At national-lottery.co.uk players can buy tickets for all of The National Lottery’s draw-based games including Lotto, Set For Life, EuroMillions and Thunderball.

Once they have registered and set up an account, they can also play a range of online Instant Win Games.

Thanks to National Lottery players, more than £30 million is generated each week for National Lottery-funded projects.

This money helps support everything from the local charity making a difference where you live through to helping our nations' athletes win medals at last summer’s Commonwealth Games.

To date, over £47 billion has been raised for National Lottery Good Causes, with more than 670,000 individual grants awarded.

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