Search launched for three lottery winners all in the same area of the country
The National Lottery has launched a deperate search to find three winners who have scooped massive prizes.
Set For Life players have been urged to check their tickets as three are unknowingly sitting on life-changing sums.
The deadline to claim the prize worth £360,000 is on July 8.
The winning tickets were all bought on January 9 in County Durham.
Camelot told The Mirror: ‘It is a most unusual situation.
‘We don’t know if one person has bought three tickets with the same numbers. Perhaps the ticket belongs to a syndicate.
‘It is possible that a husband bought one without knowing his wife had got one as well with the same numbers, and maybe a third came from another family member.’
Three men even posed as miners from the 1900s at Beamish, The Living Museum of the North to try and raise awareness.
Money raised by National Lottery players meant £10.9 million was given to the Remaking Beamish project by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in 2016.
A builder who won the Set For Life draw in March treated his workers to bacon butties.
Paul Bevans, 50, matched all five main numbers and was rewarded by receiving £10,000 every month for a year.
‘I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,’ said Paul. ‘In fact I was so unsure that I scanned the ticket about five times – this time with my eyes firmly open – and each time there was the same winning message.’
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