Queue This Way

[Bazile]

I'm off to Scotland to knock on the door of this couple .

I want to be the first in the queue


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35242525

[jno]

lol, haven't you got up here yet? The line already stretches to Aberdeen.

[Prudie]

How wonderful for them - if it were me there's no way I'd opt for the publicity though.

[jno]

quite so, Prudie, there are some ABers I don't want knocking on my door. So I've kept my mouth shut about winning the other half of the prize.

[Mamyalynne]

They seem lovely and already planning how to help others - well done to them!!

[Cloverjo]

I almost feel sorry for them in a way. They'll have loads of distant relatives and old friends coming from nowhere, and be expected to sort out everyone's financial woes.
I would definitely opt for no publicity. Not that I do the Lottery anyway.

[stuey]

Prudie, the winners don't have a choice regarding the initial publicity created by the Lottery Corporation: it's part off the "fine print" concerning winning.

[stuey]

Obviously, they have a choice regarding secondary publicity such as newspaper or radio/TV interviews.

[jno]

are you sure, stuey?

http://www.camelotgroup.co.uk/business/our-uk-national-lottery-operation/responsibility-winners/

[Baldric]

http://www.camelotgroup.co.uk/business/our-uk-national-lottery-operation/responsibility-winners/

///If they have requested to remain anonymous, Camelot takes its obligations and duty of care to protect winners’ privacy very seriously. Unless a winner agrees to take full publicity and signs an agreement to that effect, no information about them can be released by Camelot into the public domain.///

[stuey]

Well, jno I guess it's different over there. We don't have that option here; if we did, I'd certainly forgo the publicity if I won. Thanks.

[Baldric]

Oops, Snap!!, you weren't there when I C & P'd jno

[Bazile]

It doesn't matter whether you opt for privacy or not .

With that size of winnings , the press would certainly be on the case and someone eventually would definitely ' grass u up '

[Bazile]

Cloverjo

//I almost feel sorry for them in a way. They'll have loads of distant relatives and old friends coming from nowhere,...//

Indeed so .
Cousin Gertrude , 999th removed

[viv41]

How lovely to win all that money and to be able to help out all your favourite charities.

[Hopkirk]

I love it when they say "it won't change me".

If I win big, it'll certainly change me!