All the stars really were out in force last night for the national lottery Awards 2010. With Tess Daley presenting and a whole host of A list stars the event was one of the biggest of the year but for many of us it’s the actual lottery results we’re interested in. Last night may have been about charity but the lotto draw was the highlight of the night and one single winner walked away with the ?4.6 million jackpot.

Often we hear about unclaimed lottery prizes, players begged to step forward before the time runs out. But imagine hearing the numbers from the draw and finding they are your regular numbers, worse you can’t find the lottery ticket and it’s the biggest unclaimed lottery prize of all time. That’s what happened to Martyn Tott and his wife Kay in 2001 and now Mr Tott has written a book about his experience.

lottery rollovers may have been thin on the ground lately but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t still lots of lottery jackpots to play for this weekend. It’s Friday and that of course means the euromillions Lottery draw and then tomorrow there’s the uk lotto to look forward to. Neither draws are lottery rollovers but there is still an estimated ?16 million up for grabs to uk lottery players.

It’s almost time for the Annual national lottery Awards 2010, a star-studded party broadcast live on BBC1 this Saturday night. For months lottery players have been voting for their favourite charities and now the winners and lottery hero’s will be announced in the live show, as part of the live Saturday lotto show hosted by John Barrowman. It’s a way of thanking the unsung hero’s who do so much work for lottery good causes and you can be part of it.

Many of us are now regularly buying lottery tickets and playing instant win games online. A recent survey has even shown that 5% of Internet usage is by people buying lottery tickets and using other forms of gambling online. But when you’re buying your lottery tickets online, do you so much as glance around the national lottery website? If not they you may not know that currently the National Lottery is giving players the chance to win one of two laptops.

Just today, a national lottery prize worth ?117,944 went into the fund for good causes after the winner failed to step forward and there are even more lottery prizes to expire this September, one of them a National Lottery jackpot. There are three substantial lottery prizes to expire this month at the National Lottery so it’s our usual month’s end call to hunt out all those old lottery tickets and check they aren’t on the unclaimed lottery prizes list.

It’s been revealed this week that several businesses are still using the old Thunderball Lottery tickets and that winners playing using the out of date lotto slips are missing out on a huge chance to win. The Thunderball lottery was revamped earlier this year and extra numbers were added to the draw but an investigation has shown that several shops are using the out of date lottery slips and this could breach national lottery rules.

Looking back on the past few weeks lottery results makes it easy to see just how long it’s been since a uk lotto jackpot went to a single winner. Now last night’s results are in and the national lottery is shared again, this time between two lucky players who each collect over ?2 million. Are you a UK lotto jackpot winner? Check those lottery numbers now to find out.

Those hoping for the first euromillions rollover from last night’s lottery results may be disappointed but the Euromillions Lottery has been won at base jackpot yet again as two Euromillionaires are created. This week didn’t yield a UK Euromillions winner but two players shared the jackpot. It’s not known which of the nine European countries the winners came from but they win equal shares of last night’s ?12.3 million jackpot.

The whole country celebrated last week as a single uk lottery player won the ?12 million euromillions lottery jackpot. Tonight it’s the turn of the Euromillions Lottery draw again but will the UK see another Euromillions winner? Who knows, 2010 has certainly been a very lucky year for UK lottery players but will that luck continue for another draw? Make sure you buy your lottery tickets, you have to be in it to win it!