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Alison and Richard Hillier, who own Heytesbury Stores in Warminster, took home the £10,000 top prize – as did Devinder Singh, the proprietor of Seven Days in Dunoon.
Alison Hillier
“Finding out I’d won was a bit of a shock,” said Alison Hillier. “It’s not every day that someone phones you to tell you that you’ve won ten thousand pounds!”
Devinder commented: “I’m delighted to have won this huge prize, as I never win anything. The money will enable us to pay for holidays to India and will go a long way during the current financial climate.”
In addition to the two top prizes of £10,000, a further 20 prizes of £1,000 were also awarded to National Lottery retailers for maintaining high in-store standards as part of the rewards programme.
The £1,000 winners are:
- Neil Calvert of One Stop in Durham
- Shakir Shakoor of Weaver Row Newsagents in Stirling
- Mehul & Asha Patel of Best One in Leeds
- Basharat Rafiq of Haji News in Rotherham
- Shourya Kundra of Askern Stores in Pontefract
- Paresh Amin of News Centre in Basingstoke
- Hiralbahen Patel of Rahi News in Upton Park
- Shehzad Aslam of Nisa in Dunfermline
- Bipin Patel of MACE in Northampton
- Mark Hurst of The Cash Stores in Rugeley
- Somasundaram Sivagnanasundaram of Maswell Park Newsagent in Hounslow
- Sakina & Saleem Masih of Midton Street News and Grocers in Springburn
- National Lottery retailers in Bristol, Huddersfield, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Oldham, Stratford-Upon-Avon and Wigston
This is the second time that Paresh Amin has scooped the £1,000 prize in a Camelot Site, Stock, Sell online prize draw. He said: “I was extremely surprised and excited to get the call telling me I’d won £1,000 again. Site, Stock, Sell online offers great incentives, and rewards me for keeping my in-store standards high.”
Camelot’s retail director, Jenny Blogg, said: “I’d like to say a huge congratulations to every single one of our winners – they’ve worked hard to keep their in-store standards high and they thoroughly deserve their prizes. By doing such a great job in keeping things like POS up-to-date and well sited, they’re maximising National Lottery ticket sales opportunities for their stores – which goes a long way in helping to raise over £30 million every week for Good Causes.”
National Lottery retailers who are not signed up to the National Lottery Retailer Hub and would like to get involved with Camelot’s rewards programmes, including Site, Stock, Sell online, can sign up at www.tnlretailerhub.co.uk.
