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We look at which draws give the biggest or most frequent payouts and the steps you can take to try to stack the odds in your favour

Anita Pires is a call centre operator for the National Lottery and often tells people they're millionaires as part of her job, she tells The Mirror what her unique role is really like and how they confirm a win

Lottery are on sale from most UK newsagents and supermarkets from 8am to 11pm on most days, except when there’s a draw, in which case tickets can be purchased until an hour before

The winning EuroMillions and National Lottery Thunderball numbers for Friday, January 20 have just been announced with an eye-watering £26million jackpot on offer

The results for Wednesday's UK Lotto and Thunderball are out, tonight's draw could be life-changing for one lucky winner with the Lotto jackpot sitting at a whopping £5.3million

There were over 35,000 Irish winners in last night’s EuroMillions draw, and a spokesperson for the National Lottery has called on all players to check their tickets to see if they are one of the many lucky winners.

Players could be in line to win the massive Euromillions jackpot if they can match the winning numbers, or have a go at Thunderball which carries a prize of £500,000

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But it said it is ‘concerned’ the one-year funding still leaves a ‘huge amount of uncertainty’ for the future.