A group of friends from Merthyr Tydfil won £1 million after creating their National Lottery syndicate at college. The Apprentices syndicate - which includes Alex Gwynne, 28, Dan Phillips, 25 and Kyle Bowen, 25 - started playing six years ago when a group in the year above them at Coleg y Cymoedd won £5,000.
At the time, a lecturer joked that the lads should start their own syndicate which they promptly did, and they have been playing ever since. The three friends are now celebrating a National Lottery windfall of £1 million from the special EuroMillions European Millionaire Maker draw on February 3.
Alex said: “We’ve all got good careers thanks to our apprenticeships through the college, but looking at my bank account now, it does feel that our lecturer’s advice to create a National Lottery syndicate might have been some of the soundest.”
