A teenage dad scooped £120,000 on the lottery an hour after buying his first ticket in the bath. Data analyst Sam Lawton, who was 19 at the time, scored a £120,000 prize on the National Lottery. The dad-of-one, from Leamington Spa, Warwickshire,
A woman has confessed to a clever trick she played on her ex-boyfriend to make him rethink their breakup, which she said revolved around a sign from the universe. Gabby Colvin, now 20, revealed a prank she pulled when she was 17
James Briggs, 42, and wife Sally, 40, waited a month to open the messages from Camelot before eventually learning they had banked their amazing windfall. James said it was only after a fourth email from the lottery asking him to contact them
The Earl would later renounce his hereditary title and be known as Sir Alec Douglas-Home. He was in power for less than a year before losing the election to Labour under Harold Wilson, who relentlessly attacked him as an aristocrat. 46 years
64 years ago (1959) We revealed Harold Macmillan’s Conservatives had won the general election, gaining 365 seats to Labour’s 258 and the Liberals’ six. Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell said the party would have to do some “rethinking” and change its “presentation” rather
Ghislaine Maxwell earned the respect of fellow inmates at a jail in New York because she “didn’t crack” after being placed “in the worst part”. According to inmates, she refused to sell out to federal authorities at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn
Colombia won its opening match of the Women’s World Cup 2-0 over South Korea as Las Cafeteras head coach Nelson Abadía served the first of a two-game suspension. Colombia’s manager since 2017, Abadía received a red card at the end of the
British tennis sensation Emma Raducanu burst into the global spotlight in 2021 when she became the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam tournament in the Open Era with a victory at the U.S. Open. Raducanu was only 18 when she reached
A student who thought she won a life-changing £182million on EuroMillions was devastated to learn she wouldn’t receive a penny because the direct debit for the ticket had not left her account. Rachel Kennedy, then just 19, had a regular combination of
Jim Turner, a star kicker who made two Pro Bowls and helped the New York Jets win Super Bowl III in a historic upset over the Baltimore Colts, has died, the Denver Broncos announced Monday. He was 82. Turner played for the