A street full of shops and market stalls has won the People's Postcode Lottery this week- and bagged up to £3,000 per player in the process.
The lucky postcode winners of LS21 3AE were announced as the People's Postcode Lottery winners of the day on the lottery website on Tuesday 10 May 2022.
New Market, Otley was the street named in Leeds this week as Postcode Lottery winners.
The high street is home to nineteen different shops and plenty of market stalls, including pubs, local shops, a vaping store, a pizza shop and additional properties specialising in land projects, transport and property development.
The winners were part of the £1,000 daily prizes winners where every ticket in twenty postcodes wins £1,000 every day of the week- the idea is that the more tickets that a particular postcode has, the more winnings it will receive.
Individual players can also purchase multiple tickets and if their postcode comes up as a winner, they can win £1,000 per ticket, with the expected ceiling values of £3,000.
Giving back to the community and the people of the UK, the People's Postcode Lottery says that a minimum of 33% of ticket sales goes to charity- amounting to an incredible sum of £900 million to date.
The lottery has given award hundreds of thousand of pounds in winnings. / Image: People's Postcode Lottery
At present, it is unclear how much has been won by the residents of New Market, Otley- or whether anyone has purchased a ticket eligible for the £1,000 prize but its expected that if any winners come forwards, they are likely to share the good news.
After closing for the entire second day, The Warehouse stage at Leeds Festival has once again been forced to evacuate.
One of the most anticipated dance acts of the day has been cancelled due to health and safety concerns just moments before the set.
Sheffield DJ Silva Bumpa was due to take to The Warehouse stage today at 1:30pm, but the set was cancelled due to overcrowding.
It's not the first time this has happened at Leeds Festival 2026, as yesterday Omar+'s set was cancelled due to the same issue and the stage was subsequently closed for the rest of the day.
The Warehouse stage is completely new for this year, and supposedly is designed specifically for dance music...which is quite ironic.
Announcing the news to Instagram, Silva Bumpa said: "So so sorry Leeds Fest but due to over crowding my set was cancelled last min I was just behind the stage and got told right before such a massive shame."
Prospa, another prominent DJ who's set was cancelled at Reading on Friday afternoon, spoke up on the situation: "We are disappointed in The Warehouse stage closure at Reading Festival. We were told it wasn't possible to play whilst on the way. This was due to too many people outside the stage.
"We have seen this happen before at larger festivals in the UK. It's time to double the capacity of tents or put dance music on the main stage."
It comes after another dance stage, LS23, was closed mid-set last night due to a health and safety hazard when all the lights suddenly switched off and ravers were forced to evacuate.
If yesterday is anything to go by, we wouldn't be surprised if The Warehouse was closed for the rest of the day which means anticipated sets from Rossi and Mall Grab will also be cancelled.
‘Actually lost for words’ – huge artist speaks out as Leeds Festival set is cancelled due to overcrowding
Clementine Hall
For the second day in a row, a huge set has been cancelled due to overcrowding at Reading and Leeds Festival.
Day two of the festival and there's some pretty disappointed ravers hanging their head as one of the biggest dance music sets of the day is cancelled.
Omar+, a rising British electronic DJ and producer, was due to play on the brand-new Warehouse stage at Reading yesterday and Leeds today.
Yesterday's set was cancelled last minute due to overcrowding, and low and behold the same has happened here in Leeds.
Announcing the sad news to his story, Omar+ said "Actually lost for words. My Leeds set has been cancelled due to overcrowding."
He then went on to show a screenshot of a text message, reading: "I've never seen something like this in my entire life where two shows back to back are cancelled due to overcrowding."
The Warehouse stage is completely new for this year, and supposedly is designed specifically for dance music...which is quite ironic.
Prospa, another prominent DJ who's set was cancelled at Reading yesterday, spoke up on the situation: "We are disappointed in The Warehouse stage closure at Reading Festival. We were told it wasn't possible to play whilst on the way. This was due to too many people outside the stage.
"We have seen this happen before at larger festivals in the UK. It's time to double the capacity of tents or put dance music on the main stage."
It comes after another dance stage, LS23, was closed mid-set last night due to a health and safety hazard when all the lights suddenly switched off and ravers were forced to evacuate.
Sophie Smith -
11th May 2022 
