Sales pick up for £1m. lottery but delay still on cards

Thursday 24th September 2009, 2:29PM BST.

Jack Honeybill IT IS likely the million pound lottery draw will be delayed.

Earlier this month, Friends of Les Bourgs Hospice chairman Jack Honeybill encouraged islanders to buy tickets so that the draw could be held as soon as the last ticket was sold.

‘There is still a strong possibility [that it will be delayed] but I’m encouraged that the public are starting to buy more tickets.

‘If the momentum continues, we will make an announcement about when the draw will take place,’ he said.

It is due to happen on 10 October.

The 5,000 £300 tickets for the last draw, which happened in March, sold out in five weeks.

Deputy Honeybill thought that was due to novelty value and the public thinking tickets would sell out.

Sales for the second lottery started in June.

There are 1,508 tickets left.

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Paul Le P

September 24, 2009 at 10:25 pm

I definitely think the lack of novelty factor has a lot to do with the slower sales this time.

When the first million pound lottery came out it was the talk of the office – this time I didn’t even realise they were doing another one.

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