A GLASGOW lottery winner has just one week left to claim a prize of #102,601. Camelot yesterday launched an appeal to find the owner of the winning ticket before the prize becomes the largest ever to go unclaimed in Scotland.
''We'd love to pay it out,'' said lottery spokesman Alan Twigg. ''If the winner doesn't come forward the money goes to the five good causes. Someone benefits, but it seems a shame that the winner doesn't get the money.''
Camelot knows exactly when and where the winning ticket was bought, but lottery rules prevent it from saying more than that. It was bought in Glasgow for the December 6 draw. All prizes have to be claimed within 180 days.
The winning numbers were 5, 9, 19, 21, 30, and 49, and the bonus ball was 43. The lottery draw show on television that week was presented by Ronnie Corbett and featured Mariah Carey and the cast of Bugsy Malone.
The largest unclaimed sum to date is #2,054,754, from a ticket bought in Hull in May, 1996.
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