A number of homes across the North East won big on the postcode lottery this week and one of them was in Darlington.

Vine Street, near Darlington Memorial Hospital, was one of the lucky six streets in the region to get the £1,000 jackpot.

The People’s Postcode Lottery is a subscription lottery which aims to raise money for charities while also bringing cash prizes to homes across the UK.

The People’s Postcode Lottery unveils daily prizes for postcodes across the UK including £30,000 jackpots for every winning ticket in a postcode on weekends, and £1,000 prizes for 20 different postcodes every day.

A minimum of 33 per cent from each ticket goes to charity and players have raised more than £950 million for over 9,000 charities and good causes since 2005.

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Find out where the other six winning streets are below:

NE1 3AJ - Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE39 1HD - Rowlands Gill

NE63 9BA - Ashington

SR5 3DS - Sunderland

DH9 6EW - Stanley

DL3 6HP - Darlington