Residents on a borough road are the lucky recipients of a generous prize from the People's Postcode Lottery.

Those with a lottery ticket and a M25 2GN postcode were awarded a £1,000 win in one of the fundraising lottery's daily prize draws. 

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The winning postcode belongs to the People's Postcode Lottery players, who live on Polefield Road, Prestwich. 

A minimum of 33 per cent of the ticket prices goes to charity.

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The People's Postcode Lottery manages lotteries for 20 charities, with each one having one draw a month.

The lottery is hugely popular nationally and supports "a wide range of charities and good causes across Britain and around the world".

To date, they’ve generously provided more than £1.1bn in funding which is helping thousands of organisations and projects.