<P> From July 2015 Barclays included a function in their Pingit app to allow the purchase of Lottery tickets, both for the National Lottery and Euromillions . Only lucky dip lottery tickets can be purchased currently . For smaller winnings, these are paid directly into the Pingit account within 1 day . </P> <P> Following the success of London's bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, Olympic Lottery Scratchcards were launched on 27 July 2005 under the brand name "Go for Gold". 28% of the price of £ 1 went to the Olympic Lottery Distribution Fund, and the scratchcards were intended to raise £ 750,000,000 towards the cost of staging the games . </P> <P> The majority of National Lottery draws take place on live television . The first National Lottery show (entitled The National Lottery Live: The First Draw) was at 7pm on Saturday 19 November 1994 . Presented by Noel Edmonds, this was an hour long special, in which 49 contestants competed to become the first person to start the draw, the first person being 18 - year - old Deborah Walsh . The first number to be drawn was 30 . For its first few years, the TV show took the title The National Lottery Live, and was presented mainly by Anthea Turner or Bob Monkhouse . Other notable presenters during this period included Dale Winton, Carol Smillie, Terry Wogan and Ulrika Jonsson . On 30 November 1996, live on BBC One, the draw machine failed to start . </P> <P> During the 2000 Today broadcast on 31 December 1999, a special Big Draw 2000 drawing was held to ring in the new millennium (despite it having a few problems) This special Big Draw returned again on 31 December 2002 as Big Draw 2003 (with no problems with the draw compared to last time). </P>

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