Lucky South Yorkshire Postcode Lottery winners announced in latest round of prizes

One South Yorkshire postcode landed a £1,000 prize in the latest run of Postcode Lottery winners.

A Doncaster postcode was pulled out as winner earlier in the week.

Doncaster postcode DN17 2RY came out as lucky winners on Friday, October 9. The Balby residents bagged themselves £1,000 for each winning ticket.

Postcode Lottery is a subscription-based lottery in which players use their postcode as their ticket and are automatically entered into prize draws.

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A monthly subscription costs £12.50, with prizes including daily £1,000 awards, weekly Millionaire Street prizes and larger monthly prizes.

The lottery says players have raised more than £1.8 billion for thousands of good causes in Britain and internationally.

Charities to have benefited include Maggie's, the Alzheimer's Society, Dogs Trust, Mind and the NSPCC, as well as thousands of smaller community projects.

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