Residents are quids in today after striking it lucky on the People’s Postcode Lottery. Those with the M28 7GU – Whitewood Road, Walkden – and who are signed up to the lottery have today won £1,000 in the daily prize draws. Prize winning postcodes from May’s draws are announced daily throughout the month.

Read more of our top stories here: Talkin' Tables bringing the people of Bolton together Market Place Shopping Centre officially opens Changing Places facility Sacred Heart RC Primary School, Westhoughton visited by Ofsted Subscriptions to the postcode lottery support a range of charities across the UK and a minimum of 33 per cent of the ticket price goes to charity. The People's Postcode Lottery manages lotteries for 20 charities, with each one having one draw a month. The lottery is hugely popular nationally and supports "a wide range of charities and good causes across Britain and around the world".

To date, they’ve provided more than £1.1 Billion in funding which is helping thousands of organisations and projects. If you have a story or something you would like to highlight in the community, please email me at chloe.

wilson@newsquest.co.uk or DM me on X @chloewjourno.

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