Here’s the latest UK Thunderball Lottery results for Wednesday the 19th of March 2008 — a free lotto-syndicates.co.uk service.
The main numbers are listed in numerical order and the thunderball is number 12!
We hope Lady Luck has smiled on you this time…
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The main numbers are listed in numerical order and the bonus ball is number 14!
If you’re playing the game normally on your o‘wn, we hope Lady Luck has smiled on you this time…
LOTTERY cash will be used to improve a church’s crumbling fabric.
St Mary’s in the centre of Elland is to get £36,000.
It will pay for repairs to north and south aisle and north-east chapel roofs, masonry and drainage.
Grade I listed St Mary’s dates from 1180 and was most probably built by the masons who a decade earlier had completed Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds.
Extensive alterations were carried out during the 15th century, when the tower was built.
Some £1.6m of lottery money will be used to repair St Mary’s and some of Yorkshire’s other historic places of worship.
English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund offered the support for urgent repairs to 17 listed churches in Yorkshire and Humberside as part of national grants worth £15m targeting 160 churches.
Some date back to Anglo-Saxon times.
Humberside is to get £650,000, West Yorkshire £260,000, South Yorkshire £253,000 and North Yorkshire £500,000.
Community groups across England are all set to spring clean their neighbourhoods with the launch of a £50 million lottery-funded grants programme today.
The Community Spaces programme will provide grants and support to community groups wanting to make their neighbourhoods cleaner and greener.
Community Spaces will help local people improve and create play areas, community gardens, parks, wildlife areas, ponds, courts and village greens.
Gardening guru Charlie Dimmock, who officially launched the programme at a project in London, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for people of England to pick up their gardening tools and rejuvenate their local public spaces.
“I hope people will be inspired by the hard work of community groups and the wonderful spaces they can create for their communities.”
Community Spaces is being managed by Groundwork UK on behalf of a consortium of environmental organisations and is funded through the Big Lottery Fund.
The programme will make grants of between £10,000 and £49,999 and some limited grants of up to £450,000 to community groups that want to create and improve public spaces in their neighbourhoods.
Tony Hawkhead, Groundwork UK Chief Executive, said: “The launch of the Community Spaces programme has given Groundwork a wonderful opportunity to work with local organisations across the country and make a real and lasting difference to thousands of people from all walks of life.
“One thing we’ve learned over many years is that local people are best placed to decide how to make their area a better place to live.
“Community Spaces will give people the tools to turn their passion into action, to make those improvements happen and, crucially, to make them last.”
A lot of people have good ideas but need a little help to get started so, in addition to funding, Community Spaces is providing a network of trained facilitators to help groups turn ideas into reality.
Facilitators will advise successful groups on a host of issues from biodiversity to budgets to ensure their projects are a real success.
Peter Wanless, Big Lottery Fund Chief Executive, said: “Pleasant, accessible, open spaces can make a vital contribution to the quality of life. The Big Lottery Fund knows from previous successes that sustainable, happy communities are those which feel empowered to preserve the things they value and make positive changes to their surroundings.
“Enabling communities to have a say in designing, planning and running projects tailored to meet their needs is the real strength of ‘Community Spaces’ and I’m very excited to be supporting Groundwork in encouraging people to get involved.”
For further information about Community Spaces and to find out how to apply visit: http://www.community-spaces.org.uk or telephone 0845 3671 671.
Source: Jon Land www.24dash.com
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded a grant of £640,000 to the Bristol-based ss Great Britain Trust. The money will allow the trust to open the Brunel Institute Conservation Learning Centre, including a national archive devoted to Brunel.
It will house several collections of rare and historic photographs, books and papers relating to maritime history and archaeology.
It will also include personal letters and diaries, which belonged to Brunel.
New centre
Julie Cooper, of HLF, said: “The creation of the Brunel Institute will offer the general public the chance to explore these extensive collections and understand Brunel and the ss Great Britain in a broader social and historical context.
“At the same time, future generations of engineers and scientists from across the city will have the space and support to pursue their careers.”
The grant follows five previous HLF awards to the trust amounting to some £10m. The new centre will be situated in the Great Western Dockyard, home to the ss Great Britain.
Director of the ss Great Britain Trust, Matthew Tanner said: “We are delighted with this announcement.
“This grant will enable the trust and our partners, including the University of Bristol, City Museum and Art Gallery and the Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust, to forge ahead with the Brunel Institute.”
Source: bbc.co.uk
If you thought you’d just won a fortune, would you go to work the next day? Eight women who toil in a tax office in Morgantown, West Virginia did just that on Monday, as they anxiously await confirmation that they hold the winning ticket in a $276.3 million lottery jackpot.
But whether they’ll be back again this week is another matter. The women claim to be the sole big winners in the Powerball lottery, and if they’re right, each stands to be transformed from ordinary civil servants into multi-millionaires.
Sheriff’s Deputy Roger Magro is married to one of them. When one of the other ticket holders came pounding on his door at 2am Saturday, just hours after the draw, he thought something terrible had happened. He was wrong.
“I just thought, ‘You’re full of baloney,’” he recalls. “But she was adamant about it.”
Until everything is squared away, the women decided to go back to work just in case, as sheriff’s deputies kept watch on them. But not everyone is quite so cautious. At least one of their husbands has already quit his job.
If their win is confirmed, they will receive a lump sum payout of $140 million before taxes. (Lottery winnings aren’t taxable in Canada, but the U.S. has no such rule.) After the government gets its hands on its share, they’d be left with about $95.5 million - or roughly $12 million a piece.
The Powerball lottery regularly boasts some of the biggest jackpots in the world. The all-time win came in February 2006, when eight workers at a meatpacking plant collected $365 million in the take-a-chance contest. This latest win - if it’s confirmed - is the seventh biggest ever.
The winners in this case have yet to say what their plans are - but just don’t expect them to report for duty on Wednesday.
Source: www.citynews.ca
Shandong province will be the first province to sell tickets for a new kind of sports lottery, the instant lottery, beginning on March 23.
The lottery will then go nationwide in May and June, China’s Sports Lottery Administration Center announced last week.
The Olympic-themed instant lottery has five varieties and features different themes such as “To be No 1″ and “Good luck to China”.
The lottery tickets display the Fuwas (the five Beijing Olympic mascots), Olympic game introductions and the Olympic torch relay route and other designs.
The face value of the tickets will range from 5 to 10 yuan.
Different from other sports lotteries, which give players a 50 percent chance of winning, the instant lottery will have a 65 percent prize-winning rate, with the top prize totalling 250,000 yuan ($34,965).
Buyers will have to go to designated places to cash in tickets worth more than 5,000 yuan.
Online operation will ensure the lottery selling remains open and fair, officials say.
In 2007, China’s total lottery sales exceeded 100 billion yuan, an increase of 18 billion yuan or 20 percent over 2006, setting a 20-year record in China’s lottery history.
China launched its first lottery in June 1987. Lottery ticket sales are one of the main sources of funding for building community sports facilities and financing the country’s social welfare programs. Lottery bylaws stipulate that a minimum of 35 percent of receipts must go to the welfare sector.
The sports lottery public welfare fund contributed 2.75 billion yuan to the Beijing Olympic Games.
Source: www.chinadaily.com
A UNIQUE hobby group for radio enthusiasts has secured a grant of more than £5,000.
The Worcester Radio Amateurs Association (WRAA), established in October 2006, is celebrating after being given £5,320 from the National Lottery Awards for All scheme. The group, the only amateur radio enthusiast organisation in the Worcestershire area, will use the cash to spread its wings into neighbouring towns.
“We are keen to promote amateur radio as a life-long hobby,” said club chairman Pete Badham, adding that all members were “absolutely chuffed” with the grant. “We want to show everyone just what radio means in today’s world, where many technical advances are taken for granted. The money means we can move forward. We are now solvent enough to take it to the next stage - we can offer the training to people outside the club and go out into more schools.”
As well as regular meetings at their radio shack’ in Hallow, the club works closely with the Scouts and Guides, teaching youngsters how to use radio communication while camping.
In 2007, the club took part in the Scouting movement’s centenary celebrations. Members set up a radio station which enabled several hundred Scouts to take the Scout promise whilst the whole world listened.
To find out more about the club visit www.wraa.co.uk or call Mr Badham on 01905 330113.
Source: www.bromsgroveadvertiser.co.uk
A SALES manager from a Redditch forklift truck firm and his wife are celebrating are scooping up £28,178 by matching five balls and the bonus ball in the Lotto draw on March 8.
Paul Berrow, 33, from Solihull, sales manager at Translift Bendi, has played Lotto online for the last two years and received his all important email last Sunday morning suggesting he should check his account to receive some exciting news.
But as he had to take his son and daughter to swimming and tennis lessons, it was 2pm before he could check what the news was.
Paul said: “As soon as I saw the news I just looked at the email and went straight into denial. I must have spent five minutes just staring at the computer.
“My wife Emma wondered what was going on but I just said we’d won a few quid and had to ring Camelot.
“I spoke to Camelot and was going through the procedures and by this time Emma had worked out how much we’d won and was screaming and dancing around the living room.”
But it was not until Camelot rang Paul back to confirm everything that it finally hit home for him just how much they had won.
The family plan to us the money to pay off their mortgage, for extra spending money during their holiday in Disney World and Paul plans to treat himself to a hot tub.
Money will aid move to June.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has just announced a significant boost to its funding over the next three years.
As part of the UK Film Council’s Film Festival Strategy, the EIFF will receive £1.88m of Lottery money between now and 2010.
EIFF artistic director Hannah McGill said: ‘The UKFC’s Film Festival Strategy has recognised EIFF’s national and international significance and our potential to grow.’
The EIFF is expected to use the funding for education, audience development and training.
The money will also aid the festival as it seeks to establish itself in a new slot in the calendar, away from the rest of the Edinburgh Festivals. As announced last year, 2008 will be the first time the EIFF takes place in June rather than August.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival will run from Wed 18–Sun 29 June 2008.
Source: www.list.co.uk
