Lottery winner forced to sift through mountains of rubbish after binning €1million prize by mistake

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Lottery winner forced to sift through mountains of rubbish after binning €1million prize by mistake

A woman in Italy who mistakenly binned a lottery ticket worth €1million (£850,000) managed to retrieve it after spending two days rummaging through heaps of foul-smelling rubbish. The unnamed winner had checked her numbers at a shop in Bitonto, Puglia, where the machine displayed a "non-payable" message. She assumed the ticket was a dud and discarded it. The error message actually indicated her prize was too large …