We try to find the Sevenoaks lottery winner with a week left to claim their millions

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If they don't realise and find the winning ticket before the 22nd of April, the money will go to National Lottery funded projects instead.  Finn Macdiarmid reports.

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00:00What would you do if you had £10,000 straight into your bank account every month for 30

00:05years?

00:06Well for one Sevenoaks local the dream is a reality but the catch is they don't even

00:11know it and if they don't realise and produce a winning ticket by the 22nd of April then

00:15the money will go to national lottery funded projects across the country instead of their

00:19wallet.

00:20But there's another catch.

00:22The ticket was bought all the way back in October last year and time is running out.

00:26If the Sevenoaks secret millionaire doesn't come forward in the next week then they wouldn't

00:30be entitled to a penny of that life changing money.

00:33But I was on a mission to find our missing money bags with the help of the people of Sevenoaks.

00:38Of the 120,000 people here in Sevenoaks, just one person has the winning ticket and we're

00:43going to see if we can find them today.

00:44Let's go.

00:45Excuse me madam, do you use the lottery at all?

00:48No, I don't.

00:49You don't?

00:50OK.

00:51Well if you did win, what would you do with the Set for Live campaign so it's £10,000 every

00:55month for 30 years.

00:56Yeah.

00:57Total of £3.6 million.

00:58What would you do if you ended up winning?

00:59Gosh.

01:00So someone's won that locally, have they?

01:02Yes.

01:03Do you know, £10,000 a month is an awful lot so I think I'd probably, I've got children

01:09that would really welcome a bit of money every month so I think I'd probably do that, kind

01:13of support everyone.

01:14A little car, lovely little house, stay in the area and give the rest to my daughter for

01:20her life, you know, the rest of her life.

01:22I would disappear from England and travel the world possibly and go everywhere where

01:28the weather is hot.

01:29Travelling to see our family abroad in either Australia or in Canada or in Eastern Southern

01:36Africa.

01:37Some advice experts have given includes remembering back to autumn when the ticket was bought,

01:42checking coat pockets, scouring through their vehicles and even in places you might not

01:46expect.

01:47People have kept tickets in dictionaries under L for the lottery.

01:53People have kept them under the front door mat as a place where it won't move from.

02:00A million and one places, I'm sure, anything you can probably think of has possibly happened

02:06in terms of where people have kept their tickets safe.

02:09Now it has happened before where people would find their tickets right before the deadline.

02:12And as I was speaking to people, quite a few had heard of the missing winner.

02:16But we were no closer to finding them.

02:18But this isn't the end.

02:19Like I say, there's one more week.

02:21So, we've been mainly operating around this area.

02:24But now, I want you to go out and see if you can find the set for life winner anywhere

02:27here or in the rest of Sevenoaks.

02:29Family members, co-workers, your dog's groomers, the person serving you in a shop, the winner

02:34could be anyone up until that deadline day of Tuesday, April 22nd.

02:38And while it will certainly be a mission to find them, it's far from impossible.

02:42Finn McDermid for KMTV in Sevenoaks.

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