Birmingham the luckiest place for Lottery players

Birmingham has been named the luckiest spot to unrecorded successful the UK by the National Lottery.

It said 205 millionaires had been created successful the metropolis since the lottery began successful 1994, an equivalent of 1 each 7 weeks.

There person been 35 millionaires made successful the metropolis successful the past 3 years.

Kathy Garrett, who hands implicit prizes to the winners, said the organisation crossed the federation was "quite even", but Birmingham conscionable came retired connected top.

One of the astir caller Birmingham winners, Celeste Coles, said she had taken her household to Barbados aft receiving £3.6m successful the summer.

She said: "My mum hadn't been backmost to Barbados, wherever she was born, for astir 60 years.

"My sister, my nieces, nephew, they had ne'er been to Barbados, truthful it was a fantastic [time] for them."

She besides bought a spot successful Spain and said it was a "dream travel true".

Ms Garrett said 1 of her favourite victor stories was a young mates who had a six-month-old babe with immoderate disabilities.

She said: "The mum was owed to spell backmost to enactment due to the fact that she couldn't spend to instrumentality clip retired and enactment astatine home.

"And suddenly, they won £1m connected the lottery, and it genuinely was life-changing for them."

The mates were capable to bargain a caller location with a sensory country for the kid and the mum could astatine enactment location and look aft her and springiness her each the attraction she needed.