RENFREWSHIRE residents have been handed an added incentive to buy a Lottery ticket...after it was revealed the area's postcode is one of the luckiest in Scotland.

Experts at the National Lottery have revealed the PA postcode area is home to the second highest number of big money Lottery winners per head of population in Scotland over the past five years.

Not only that, it also ranks second in the whole of the UK.

In the last five years, a total of 59 top-tier prizes of at least £50,000 have been banked by players in the PA postcode, which covers towns such as Johnstone, Paisley, Renfrew, Bishopton, Bridge of Weir, Erskine, Kilmacolm and Lochwinnoch.

Of those 59 high-value prizes, 14 were enough to create Lottery millionaires.

Andy Carter, senior winners' advisor at the National Lottery, told the Gazette: “Paisley has enjoyed plenty of Lottery luck over the past five years.

"It’s not only one of the luckiest postcodes in Scotland but also in the UK, with 59 people celebrating life-changing big wins and a fantastic 14 of those becoming millionaires.

“The National Lottery makes, on average, a new millionaire every day, meaning there are big winners in every corner of the country.

"We are always ready to help celebrate and have plenty of champagne on ice.”

According to Lottery bosses, it isn’t just individuals who have been winning big, as the entire community benefits from the money raised by those who buy tickets.

Grants worth almost £3 billion have been distributed to more than 60,000 National Lottery-funded projects in Scotland.

In addition, each National Lottery player helps to raise, on average, more than £30 million for good causes every week.

This has helped to fund small projects in a number of communities across Renfrewshire.