Tickets cost £50 and the winner will receive their house on Wilton Street, which has five bedrooms and a staff flat, and is one of only three freehold properties ... Austria who had 'sold' her house through a lottery,” said Mrs Forster. “

This has just paid off – the Big Lottery Fund has decided to back them to the tune of £50,000. It means they can now afford the £170,000 needed to purchase the freehold of empty retail premises which many decades ago used to be the Midgley Co-op ...