Residents across County Durham and the North East are celebrating a surprise boost to their bank balances after their postcodes came out on the Postcode Lottery.
Just two postcodes scooped prizes this week, with residents in neighbourhoods in Crook and Stamfordham winning £1,000.
In County Durham, residents living in DL15 0GE in Crook, each earned a £1,000 prize per ticket.
Players on NE18 0AB in Stamfordham, Northumberland, also received £1,000 each.
Five neighbours on Cornforth Grove in Billingham also won a share of £1m on Saturday when TS23 3PR came out in the draw.
One winner, Barry Cook, was meant to be under the knife for a hip replacement surgery until it was cancelled by doctors - meaning he was at home when the Postcode Lottery came knocking.
Barry and wife Dot, both 81, won £200,000 - a share of a £1m pot with four other neighbours on Cornforth Grove on Saturday (July 5) when TS23 3PR came out in the draw.
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The People’s Postcode Lottery is a subscription lottery which aims to raise money for charities while also bringing cash prizes to homes across the UK.
The People’s Postcode Lottery unveils daily prizes for postcodes across the UK including £30,000 jackpots for every winning ticket in a postcode on weekends and £1,000 prizes for 20 different postcodes every day.
A minimum of 33 per cent from each ticket goes to charity and players have raised more than £950 million for over 9,000 charities and good causes since 2005.
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