If you’re looking for somewhere to take a weekend break, why not try one of the following and don’t forget to buy your lottery ticket as these are in theory the best places in the country to win.
We’re not of course guaranteeing that you’ll come back a multi millionaire, but areas of Essex, Kent or the North East England are statistically more likely to get you some winnings than anywhere else in the United Kingdom according to Yahoo.
llford in Essex is one of the luckiest places to buy your tickets with a whopping £87 million in big prizes won so far by it’s residents. Moving up the east of England, Newcastle-upon-Tyne is second on the list with apparently one in 6,207 of Newcastle residents scooping a large prize.
Medway in Kent came in third making the southern half of the country overall a good place to buy your tickets and moving back to Essex, Illford came in forth place in the league table.
If you really want to increase your chances then the North East of England is definitely the place to go with the aforementioned Newcastle, Sunderland and Durham all coming in the top 10 places to win. For the overall area, a massive £684 million has been paid out in top prizes with 407 jackpot prize winners.
In total since the lottery began back in 1994, there have been 2,500 jackpot winners of the National Lottery.
Of course you could just sit at home and do the National Lottery online
