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23:35 GMT, Saturday, 27 December 2008

Lucky winner scoops £3.4m jackpot

Lottery balls One lucky ticketholder has won the £3.4m jackpot in Saturday's Lotto.

The winning numbers were 7, 10, 24, 39, 40 and 42. The bonus number was 5.

The machine used was Sapphire and the set of balls was number seven.

Eleven ticketholders matched five numbers plus the bonus to take home £95,963 while 372 won £1,773 for five numbers.

No-one won the top prize of £130,000 in the Lotto HotPicks draw.

The winning numbers in the Lotto Dream Number game, which have to be matched in order, were 4, 4, 9, 6, 9, 9, 7.

No-one won the £500,000 prize for matching all seven numbers.

In the Thunderball game, the winning numbers were 8, 10, 20, 29 and 31. The Thunderball was 4.

No-one won the £250,000 top prize.

Lottery glitch

Earlier on Saturday, a technical problem with the National Lottery computer network left customers across the country unable to buy tickets.

Operator Camelot apologised for the glitch, which affected both in-store sales and those via the lottery website for about four hours.

National Lottery presenter Carole Machin also said sorry for the problems during the live draw show.



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