Lotto player finds £850k winning ticket after two-day search through rubbish

A punter who binned her €1m (£850,000) winning lottery ticket after a shop terminal flashed “non-payable” hit the jackpot twice when refuse crews miraculously traced the slip

Someone who bought a lottery ticket in Scarborough woke up a multimillionaire Thursday morning—they may just not know it yet.

Teams of rubbish collectors spent two days sifting through waste and rubbish in a bid to find the winning ticket - the administrator leading the effort later revealed he won on a scratch card after rubbing the winning ticket