£2.2m Lottery jackpot unclaimed

Winning tickets date back to July

National Lottery players in London are being urged to check their tickets as a prize worth more than £2.2m remains unclaimed after three months.

Lotto organiser Camelot said the ticket worth £2,214,747 was bought for the Lotto draw in Ealing on 29 August and matched numbers 4, 6, 11, 17, 31, 41.

More than £2.6m in Lottery prize money has gone unclaimed in London in the past six months.

Winning players have 180 days from the day of the draw to claim their prize.

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If no-one comes forward with the winning ticket in time the prize money, and the interest it has generated, goes to National Lottery good causes.

The spokesman for Camelot said: "Across the UK there is a total of £12,858,684.70 in unclaimed prizes at present, and Londoners seem to be among the most forgetful.

"It's amazing that at this time of year lottery players are not checking their tickets."

A ticket bought in Islington that matched five numbers plus the bonus ball in the Lotto draw on 21 July 2007 stands to earn its owner almost £100,000.

Meanwhile £250,000 in prize money is outstanding on a ticket bought for the Thunderball jackpot in Kensington and Chelsea on 14 November.