House lottery ticket success
Published on 3rd May 2007 in News
There are just a few tickets left for the £650,000 house lottery in Reedness.
The Old Parsonage has attracted attention from as far away as Australia, America and Taiwan after the owners decided to sell their house via a raffle.
Online entry costs £60 and participants have to guess where the end of shadow from the telephone pole outside the house would fall.
The owners, Alf and Kath Overy, decided to set up the lottery after they were unable to sell their 17-room house for £650,000.
They plan to use the money to pay their debts, retire in style and make a large donation for the International League for the Protection of Horses.
Within four days of the launch, the couple had cleared their expenses and a spokesperson for the couple said: "There's a few tickets left.
"It's all going well and Alf's happy with it."
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