SEVEN people in Murdishaw have each scooped a cash prize of £1,000 thanks to their postcode.

The Exmouth Crescent neighbours landed the windfall when their postcode was announced as a People’s Postcode Lottery Daily Prize winner on Friday.

People’s Postcode Lottery ambassador Judie McCourt sent her well wishes and said: “A big congratulations to all those who have picked up a prize today in Murdishaw. I hope the win will help lift their spirits and I hope they are able to treat themselves to something special with the cash.”

A minimum of 32% of ticket sales goes directly to charities and players of People’s Postcode Lottery have raised over £500 million to date for thousands of good causes in Britain and beyond.

This draw was promoted by NSPCC, which has received more than £3.9 million in funding to help support its mission to end child abuse and neglect.

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