Bradford's lottery punters - and the district's jackpot winners - are crossing their fingers for tonight's £30m double rollover draw.

The National Lottery's biggest ever jackpot for a mid-week draw is up for grabs.

And multi-millionaire lottery winner Elaine Taylor has bought an extra lucky dip ticket for the bumper rollover.

"I need the money," she joked.

Elaine, 55, and husband Tony, of Queensbury, won £9.4m in August 1997.

"I've bought three tickets every week since we won but seriously I wouldn't like to win the jackpot again," added Elaine.

"I would like to see a group of people win it - £30m is far too much for one person."

Millionaire lottery winner Louise Hall will also be watching to see if her numbers come up.

"I still buy £10-worth of tickets every week and of course it would be nice to win again, but to be honest I don't know what I would do with the money," said the 22-year-old who won £1,029,331 in 1997.

Camelot spokeswoman Caro-lyn Fitzgerald said Bradfordians had a good chance of scooping the jackpot.

"Yorkshire is a lucky region. Of the 200 or so winners who have gone public 30 of them were from Yorkshire," she said.

"We are expecting demand to be high and we would advise people to buy their tickets early to avoid the queues."

The jackpot is so big because no ticket holders won the £3.3m jackpot from last Wednesday, causing it to roll on top of Saturday's already guaranteed Superdraw of £20m.

On Saturday no-one scooped the guaranteed £23m prize and this has rolled over to tonight's draw.

The draw will be screened live during the National Lottery Third Degree programme on BBC1 at 8.50pm.

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