Punters fury at lottery glitch instructing winners to discard tickets

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Another said: “I’ve checked tickets using your app and threw them away after you’ve gave a ‘no win’ message. I don’t know the numbers. Disgrace.”  The bungle emerged amid reports that the


former boss of lottery operator Camelot, Dame Dianne Thompson, 65, was paid £800,000 last year despite no longer working for the company.  Thompson, who ran the business for 14 years before


retiring in 2014, received her jackpot as part of a bonus plan that could be worth up to £1m a year until 2019. Now a non-executive director at the retailer Next, she is eligible for the


payments for work that she completed in her final years in charge of Camelot, according to accounts filed at Companies House.  Camelot said the payments would be made by Ontario Teachers’


Pension Plan, the owner of the lottery operator.