Lucky residents near Whitchurch could have won big in today's People's Postcode Lottery draw.

The People's Postcode Lottery runs a daily draw where those with a ticket can win up to £1,000.

And in today's (July 17) lottery a winning Whitchurch postcode came up - SY13 4LP in Marbury.

The lottery works with players signing up with their postcode and paying £12 per month to be entered into various draws.

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These include the Monday to Friday daily £1,000 draws, a weekly £30,000 draw on a Sunday, a monthly draw that sees one postcode share £3.2 million, and a new draw that sees one postcode share £1 million every Saturday.

Thirty three per cent of the ticket price goes to charities which help "amazing causes every single day".

The lottery is hugely popular nationally and supports "a wide range of charities and good causes across Britain and around the world" - providing more than £1.1 billion in funding which is helping thousands of organisations and projects.