It is 30 years ago today that The National Lottery began in Britain with nearly £100 billion paid out to lucky winners. To mark the anniversary, 30 millionaires from the last three decades came together to celebrate the big day and share their life-changing stories from boob jobs to fast cars and luxury holidays but also personal tragedy. Kind-hearted Ray Wragg, 86, from Sheffield won a £7,649,520 Lotto jackpot in January 2000 with late wife, Barbara, but has amazingly given the majority of his winnings to good causes.
Ray retired as soon as his winning numbers came up, and the couple immediately started thinking about who they could help. He said: “We gave £5.5million away to family and friends, hospitals and good causes.
” The couple once paid £12,000 for war veterans to revisit the WWII battlefield of Monte Cassino and have also taken 250 local school children on an all expenses paid trip to see Disney on Ice, among many other things. Ray very sadly lost his beloved wife, Barbara in 2018 but has since found happiness again after meeting Anne on a cruise and they’ve just jointly purchased a three-bedroom bungalow together. Sarah Cockings, 40, from Whitley Bay, won a £3,045,705 Lotto jackpot in April 2005 and decided to help her family out in other ways - by getting them boob jobs - but not before she finished uni.
She explained: “When I won, I was studying social care at Northumbria University and living at home. It was my mum’s dream to see me graduate, so I .
