Pittsfield Man Wins 2nd Million Dollar Jackpot in 20 Years
How in the world does this happen and is it okay for me to be happy for this Pittsfield man, but not
too happy? I mean, we all know someone who s pretty lucky, but this is off the charts stuff here.
According to WHDH.com a man in Pittsfield recently claimed a 1 million dollar jackpot from a Massachusetts lottery and incredibly it wasn t the first time he s won that giant amount.
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21 years ago, back in May of 2000, Mike Rocca won the $1 million prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s $1,000,000 Draw instant ticket game.
A new company will advise parents and grandparents on remortgaging homes to help children onto the housing ladder.
Tembo, which describes itself as a family lending platform, enables first-time buyers to get on the housing ladder by brokering a small interest-only mortgage on their parents - or another family member or friend s - home.
The money from the benefactor - which Tembo refers to as the homebooster - is then put towards the child s mortgage deposit, allowing them to buy their first property.
However, this route to homeownership comes with risks, as we explain below.
On the ladder: First-time buyers Jim Labisko, 49, and Sophie Gardner, 33, are using Tembo to help them buy their first properties with assistance from their parents
It recorded a pre-tax loss of nearly £300million for the six months ending March compared to £34.3million the previous year as trade across the world remained severely depressed.
Its net sales rose by more than €1.6billion to €4.9billion from February to the end of April, with digital purchases climbing 67 per cent, while net cash jumped by a quarter to €7.2billion.
British Airways and Ryanair are being investigated for potentially breaching consumer law by failing to offer refunds for flights that customers could not legally take due to Covid lockdowns.
The Competition and Markets Authority said the investigation relates to flights that were not cancelled but that customers could not take because it was unlawful for people in the UK to travel for non-essential reasons - for example during the second lockdown in England in November.
The CMA s chief executive, Andrea Coscelli, said: Customers booked these flights in good faith and were legally unable to take them due to circumstances entirely outside of their control.