The nearby town rumoured to have sold record-breaking £195 million jackpot winning Euromillions ticket

27.07.2022 - 15:19 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk

People in one nearby town are convinced that the £195 million jackpot-winning Euromillions ticket was sold there last week. One lucky UK player bagged the record-breaking jackpot, with many people from one particular town in Merseyside believing the winning ticket was sold in their area.

The Liverpool ECHO visited a number of shops in Formby and almost every shop worker had heard the rumour that the ticket was handed over the counter somewhere in the daytripper hotspot. The Euromillions draw that saw almost £200m handed out, the biggest National Lottery win of all time, took place last Tuesday, during a heatwave that saw thousands flock to the coast, with shopworkers throughout the town adamant they sold the winning ticket.

One worker from Bargain Booze told the ECHO: "I'm sure I sold [the winning ticket]. I remember serving one lad, I looked at the ticket and the numbers just looked right. Our boss is on holiday and we haven't heard anything from Camelot about whether we were the ones to sell it."

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The owner of one newsagent in the town told the ECHO that she heard the rumours and is waiting to see whether it was her shop that sold the golden ticket. She said: "If you're the one that sells it I'm sure they come down with a banner and make an event of it. I've not heard anything but people have been saying it was sold in Formby. I don't know if the person is actually from Formby though."

One worker told the ECHO that she heard that the person who won it was from Leeds and had visited the town for the day during the heatwave. She said: "I heard the person who won it was from Leeds and they were here on Monday or Tuesday for