Ticketholder loses out on lottery fortune

Buyer of winning ticket has run out of time to claim prize

A not-so-lucky punter in Dundee has seemingly lost out on £1m as a winning lottery ticket expired last night.

A winning ticket was bought in Dundee on November 14 2017 and the deadline to claim the prize expired at midnight last night.

The winning Euromillions tickets had the UK Millionaire Maker code TZFN 99040.

A last-ditch attempt to find the winner was launched last week with Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser for the National Lottery, urging players to check and double-check their tickets one last time.

However, the appeal looks to have been futile as nobody came forward to claim the prize.

EuroMillions UK Millionaire Maker creates two millionaires in the UK during every draw.

For every EuroMillion line played, UK players automatically receive a Millionaire Maker code printed on their ticket.

Any unclaimed winnings, plus any interest generated, go to help National Lottery-funded projects across the UK.

In Dundee, more than 1,500 individual National Lottery grants have been awarded to help projects across the arts, sports, heritage, health, education, environment, charity and voluntary sectors.

With all draws, players have 180 days from the day of the draw to claim their prize if they possess the winning ticket.

Last year it was revealed that people living in Perthshire were the luckiest lottery players in the UK, with the PH postcode being home to the most big money lottery winners per head of population in the previous five years.

A total of 34 prizes of at least £50,000 were banked by players in that area, including the creation of five millionaires.

And the preceding year Dundee was found to be the third luckiest city in Scotland.

The postcode area DD had the third highest ratio of big money winners, anything over £50,000, in Scotland in 2014 and 2015.

That will likely be little solace for whoever failed to claim the latest big winning prize in the city, however.

The postcode area DD had the third highest ratio of big money winners, anything over £50,000, in Scotland in 2014 and 2015