Birmingham named the luckiest place for Lottery players
Celeste Coles, from Birmingham , won £3.6m on the lottery and was presented with her winnings by Kathy Garrett Birmingham has been named the luckiest place to live in the UK by the National Lottery.
It said 205 millionaires had been created in the city since the lottery began in 1994, an equivalent of one every seven weeks.Kathy Garrett, who hands over prizes to the winners, said the distribution across the nation was "quite even", but Birmingham just came out on top. One of the most recent Birmingham winners, Celeste Coles, said she had taken her family to Barbados after receiving £3.6m in the summer.She said: "My mum hadn't been back to Barbados, where she was born, for nearly 60 years.
"My sister, my nieces, nephew, they had never been to Barbados, so it was a fantastic [time] for them."Ms Garrett said one of her favourite winner stories was a young couple who had a six-month-old baby with some disabilities. She said: "The mum was due to go back to work because she couldn't afford to take time out and stay at home.The couple were able to buy a new home with a sensory room for the child and the mum could at stay home and look after her and give her all the care she needed.
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