During the sporting lockdown, replays, throwbacks and charity auctions have taken on unprecedented importance as fans look to fill the void left by live action. 

England are hopeful of returning to international action on July 8 for a three-Test series against West Indies behind closed doors following the coronavirus pandemic.

The Premier League had already warned their 20 clubs last month that they were budgeting for a £1.1bn loss because of refunds to broadcasters, ticket-holders and commercial partners.

ANDREW PIERCE: Sir John Major is not often considered the most influential prime minister of the 20th century. But we shouldn't forget one achievement: the creation of the National Lottery.

Dean Weymes from Peterborough didn't realise he'd won his first ever game of Set for Life until he checked his phone at work the next day and immediately told his bosses that he was sick.

A British holiday resort is due to reopen as it completes the 10-month £2.7million restoration. Great Yarmouth's Waterways was a big hit in the 1950s and people say it is 'magnificent'.

The Venetian Waterways reopened today after a 10-month £2.7million restoration. The mayor cut the red ribbon at the celebratory gala as boats and pedalos once again took to the water.

Sam Lawton, 19, won £120,000 in the National Lottery's newest game, Set For Life. The father-of-one data analyst, from Leamington Spa, won £10,000 a month after matching five numbers.

Vicky Mitchell, from Halifax, (pictured with her partner, Adam Fry) used the last £1.50 left in her online account from a previous win to buy a line for the August 12 draw.

Giles Knibbs (pictured) who worked at Camelot in Watford, told his ex-partner John Coleyshaw that Edward Putman had not paid him his agreed share of the fraudulent winnings.

Edward Putman, 54, of Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, is accused of working with an insider to con the lottery operator Camelot into handing over an unclaimed jackpot.

Ticket holders around the UK are anxiously checking their numbers as the balls for one of the largest ever prizes is revealed. The numbers are: 40, 18, 11, 02, 46, and the Lucky Stars are: 04, 01

The excitement has been building so much for the blockbuster jackpot that lottery players managed to crash the website earlier this evening in the scramble to get a ticket.

One UK ticket holder has won the EuroMillions jackpot to become the country's biggest ever winner. The life-changing haul will make the winner richer than pop star Ed Sheeran.

The former Made In Chelsea star, 29, and the singer, 38, attended the National Lottery Awards 2019 at London's BBC Television Centre on Tuesday evening.

Twenty-five winners who hit the jackpot over 25 consecutive years of The National Lottery. The National Lottery celebrates its first ever draw on November 19, 1994.

National Lottery operator Camelot said the prize will be paid out at a ticket validation appointment before the winner decides whether to go public. A UK ticket-holder won a £170 million jackpot in October.

NHS Digital data released today showed more than half (53 per cent) of adults spent money on betting in the last year in England. One in 10 men and one in 20 women admitted to drinking nearly every day.

John and Allison McDonald, of Stockton on Tees, County Durham, matched all six numbers on a Lucky Dip ticket then found out three days later that their son Ewan, 15, was cancer free.

Ron and Joan Brumhill from Waterlooville in Hampshire scooped the life-changing prize after matching five main numbers and the bonus ball in the Lotto draw on December 21 last year.

Sofina Sarwar, 34, of Leicester, denies knowing anything about the money Haroon Cassim, 36, took from Camelot and Yopa Property while he worked for both firms between 2010 and 2018.

Liz Nicholl is stepping down as the chief executive of UK Sport after 19 years at the agency... during which she helped Team GB go from 36th to second in the Olympic medals table

Ryan Hoyle, a 38-year-old joiner from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, has been revealed as the EuroMillions winner of £58million, seeing him rank ninth on the National Lottery millionaires' list.

Yahya Al-Saud (pictured), who is notorious for praising terrorism in Palestine, was greeted at Portcullis House by Labour frontbencher Fabian Hamilton.

Prof. Simon Schama has hit out after it was revealed Ash Sarkar will feature in the BBC documentary The Rise of The Nazis despite defending someone who graffited the Warsaw Ghetto.

Barbara Greaves, from Ohio, reported her female Beagle, Trouble, missing from her East Palestine yard on January 3. Two days later, the dog's detached head was found on the owner's property.

A new featurelength set to air on Good Friday, stars Game of Thrones' Essie Davis as Miss Phryne Fisher. The heroine swings between the Middle East and England, as she battles crime in the 1920s.

KIIS FM staffers have revealed what it's like working for Kyle Sandilands and Jackie 'O' Henderson during an eye-opening segment on The Kyle & Jackie O Show. 

The frail former First Lady, 90, was being escorted to her seat in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, in Simi Valley, California, by Senator Marco Rubio when she lost her balance.

Michael Brennan, a regional director for Florida Senator Marco Rubio, resigned following the battery arrest after allegedly beating his wife on Friday night.

As Marco Rubio's autobiography hit shelves it was revealed he is not being considered as Mitt Romney’s vice president in November’s US elections, according to reports.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has been criticised for describing the age of the earth as a 'great mystery' even though almost all scientists agree that it is 4.54 billion years old.

IRS demanded lists of all donors, in Q&As that would have been made 'open to public inspection'; Florida senator wants heads to roll; Obama calls it 'outrageous'

Democratic state senator Tick Segerblom says overseas odds makers are horning in on Sin City's action, so he's ready to open the door to congressional crap shoots and presidential parlays.

In an interview with ABC's This Week, 43-year-old Rubio added fuel to the speculation that he's planning a run for president by telling host Jonathan Karl that he has plenty of experience to hold the country's highest office.

Paul has placed himself at odds with several possible Republican presidential challengers, including Rubio, whose parents immigrated from Cuba, by aligning himself with the president on this issue.

The pair have been political allies for more than a decade but those close to Bush have started quietly spreading negative information about Rubio's record.

Jeanette Rubio is responsible for 13 of the citations, and four belong to the Republican presidential candidate. The Florida couple has agreed to attend remedial driving school four different times.

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida on Friday embraced the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act and called for expanding it through tax credits to businesses that offer paid leave.

'You have this clown, Marco Rubio. I've been so nice to him!' Trump said, as boos swallowed the room. He also hammered the truant lawmaker for his record of absences in the Senate.

'He is a very sensitive person. He doesn't like to be criticized. He responds to criticism very poorly,' Rubio told NPR, after Trump hammered him as 'a kid' who 'shouldn't even be running in this race.'

As Marco Rubio's stock rises among Republican primary voters, the Florida senator is trying to show that his finances are clean as a whistle. Yesterday Rubio released two years of American Express bills.

U.S. senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky went into a head-to-head skirmish halfway through Tuesday night's Republican debate over military spending.

Orlando Cicilia was arrested for his part in the illicit operation in 1987 during Miami's narcotics heyday when Republican presidential hopeful Rubio was just 16.

While serving in the Florida House of Representatives in 2002, Rubio wrote to regulators on statehouse stationary recommending brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia for a real estate licence.

Surging Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie attacked top-tier rival Marco Rubio on Wednesday over his fitness to challenge likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

The Republican presidential hopeful applauded Mexican marines for detaining the fugitive cartel leader, but he mocked Penn's involvement in the bizarre stitch-up.

Chris Christie didn't find a joke Marco Rubio made about this weekend's snowstorm to be very funny. Rubio said the upside of this snowstorm was that it would freeze Obama's veto pen.

Some have called it boot-gate, others boot-ghazi, but Marco Rubio thinks the brouhaha over a pair of heeled boots he sported on Sunday is just silly. Though he finally revealed the retailer.

Presidential hopeful Marco Rubio donned a pair of fashion-forward black boots in New Hampshire Sunday and they made the Florida senator look well-heeled in more ways than one.