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    How to spend lottery winnings

    Oct 17, 2019 3 minutes

    THE boy and I played a new game during a car journey up north this season: how to spend your Euro Lottery winnings. Why Euro? Well, we decided the bog-standard Lottery wasn’t for us, firstly because we’re confused – what exactly is a Thunderball? – and, secondly, the pot isn’t really big enough.

    Yes, a couple of million would be awfully handy – the hedges could be trimmed regularly, the 25-year-old brogues replaced – but the sum isn’t utterly life changing, whereas the £134,122,039 on offer in the September draw would definitely perk up one’s

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