{"id":527906,"date":"2025-10-25T22:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/527906\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T22:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:57:12","slug":"lotto-jackpot-draw-halted-by-technical-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/527906\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto jackpot draw halted by technical glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said earlier: &#8220;We expect to complete tonight&#8217;s Lotto draw and publish the verified results on national-lottery.co.uk later this evening and apologise for the delay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stream for the draw on the National Lottery YouTube channel was unavailable on Saturday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Lottery operator changed for the first time in 30 years in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Camelot had run the lottery from its base in Watford since the game&#8217;s launch in 1994, but its licence ended in January last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 10-year licence was given to new operator Allwyn, which has continued to oversee the draw from the former Camelot offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">International operator Allwyn Entertainment is owned by Czech oil and gas tycoon Karel Komarek. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson said earlier: &#8220;We expect to complete tonight&#8217;s Lotto draw and publish the verified results on national-lottery.co.uk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-527906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115437282584564153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}