Residents on a Bolton street are quids in after striking it lucky on the People’s Postcode Lottery on Friday.

Those with the BL3 4HA postcode – Pengwern Avenue, Deane – and are signed up to the lottery won £1,000 on Friday, May 24, in the daily prize draws.

Prize winning postcodes from May’s draws are announced daily throughout the month.

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Subscriptions to the postcode lottery support a range of charities across the UK and a minimum of 33 per cent of the ticket price goes to charity.

The People's Postcode Lottery manages lotteries for 20 charities, with each one having one draw a month.

The lottery is hugely popular nationally and supports "a wide range of charities and good causes across Britain and around the world".

To date, they have provided more than £1.1 Billion in funding which is helping thousands of organisations and projects.


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