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BT staff share £45m Euro lottery jackpot

Jonathan Prynn, Consumer Business Editor
10 Nov 2009


A group of BT call centre workers from Liverpool have won Britain's biggest lottery prize, a £45.5 million share of the Euromillions jackpot.

The Liverpool Echo reported that the seven or eight workers, who will each be roughly £5.5million better off, were unaware of their windfall until they arrived at work this morning. One worker told the Echo: "You can only imagine what it was like when it dawned on them. I've heard they just went mad - screaming and shouting."

The identity of the other winner of half the £91 million total jackpot has not yet been revealed.

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This sort of money should not go to Liverpool. It will be spent on shell suits, Elizabeth Duke jewellry, Bacardi breezers and drugs.

It should be confiscated from them and redistributed around worthy causes in Richmond and Kingston.

- Anthony, Esher, Surrey, 10/11/2009 13:02
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excellent. It's nice that a group can share. I hope they all enjoy their new wealth.

- Squiz, Islington, 09/11/2009 20:05
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When is it my turn !!!

- Brian, Wiltshire, 09/11/2009 18:33
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Good for them. Hope they enjoy it :o)

- S-M Hearmon, London, UK, 09/11/2009 17:48
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Well done to our fella BT Colleagues for being lotto winners....... what great news!!

- Adeeba Hamid, B'Ham, 09/11/2009 17:34
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So that is seven or eight call centre job vacancies in Liverpool then?

- David Moon, East Sussex, UK, 09/11/2009 17:16
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I assume there will be some jobs available in the BT Liverpool call centre now !!!

- Paxton, N17, 09/11/2009 17:13
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You mean BT still has call centres in Britain???

- Nowan, London, 09/11/2009 16:35
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WoW!!! Well done...Er, couldn't lend us a fiver could you...:-)

- Mark H, London, England, 09/11/2009 16:30
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