HOW unlucky can you be? The unfortunate Scott Kenyon of Lancaster pulled off a 14 million-to-one shot on the National Lottery but isn't a penny richer.

The luckless youth picked his numbers for one lottery ticket and went for a 'lucky dip' - where the computer picks - on another.

He couldn't believe his eyes when both lines of numbers, for the £20 million draw, were exactly the same. Even the sequence was identical.

Supermarket worker Scott, 19, remembered: "I took the ticket home and looked again and again - I just couldn't believe it. It's weird. The chances of that happening are the same chances of winning the lottery - that's what's so annoying.

"I don't know if other people will go out now and pick the same numbers but it certainly didn't bring me any luck.

"I told my mum about it and she couldn't get over it either. What do you think the chances are of these same numbers matching the ones on the draw this week? As it stands I've actually thrown away a quid.

A Camelot spokesman confirmed that it was a 14 million-to-one chance and that this is the first time the lottery company had ever had this recorded.

Checks on the machine at the Lancaster city centre store where Scott works did not reveal any faults.

Scott plans to keep taking his chances on the lotto in the hope that fate can be a bit kinder to him than it has been so far.

The unlucky numbers were: 7, 22, 26, 39, 41 and 43.

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