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Tuesday, June 30, 1998 Published at 10:05 GMT 11:05 UK
UK
Winners are losers
Charity is doing well out of the Lottery
The amount of lottery winnings that have gone unclaimed in Britain has topped �150m - including one �2.1m jackpot win.
The 180-day deadline to pick up the cash has expired, meaning Camelot to donate the cash pool to its Good Causes Fund.
The lottery operator said there was a further �36 million still within the deadline, but that would be added to the fund unless winners staked their claim soon.
Camelot believes that most of the prizes which go unclaimed are �10 wins which are lost when people do not check their tickets carefully enough.
"Then again people could have lost them or just forgotten where they are. Whatever the reasons, �150 million worth of prizes could have made a lot of people happy," a Camelot spokesperson said.
The jackpot winning ticket was bought in Hull for a draw in May 1996 but despite a massive hunt for the winner, no one came forward.
The second biggest prize which could go unclaimed was also won by a ticket bought in Hull.
The �182,400 win will go to the Good Causes Fund unless someone comes forward within a fortnight.
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