Taxi driver missed Lotto jackpot by one number TWICE – and says he’s ‘Britain’s second unluckiest man’

A TAXI driver missed out on a Lotto jackpot by one number TWICE.

Gregor Ross came tantalisingly close to scooping on £10,000 a month for 30 years in the Set For Life game.

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But instead he won £250.

It happened nearly a year after he missed out on the the £500,000 Thunderball jackpot by the same margin.

And he says he's "Britain's second unluckiest man" after an engineer jackpot by ONE number.

We told you how Aidan Murray, 24, revealed he was left "shaking" after coming agonisingly close to scooping the life-changing sum after buying two lucky dips.

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Now the reports that Gregor has twice come within one number of pocketing a fortune.

Gregor, of Tayside, Scotland, said: “On November 16 last year, I picked the numbers 6, 17, 21, 38 and 39 and life ball number 6.

“If I’d picked 13 instead of 6, I’d have won £10,000 a month for 30 years.

“The November before that I was in the taxi and a customer got in.

"I told him I was just picking my lottery numbers and he told me to put on 18, 19, 22, 26, 28 and Thunderball 1.

“If I’d picked 38 instead of 26, I’d have won the jackpot.”

We told you last week how Aidan, from Clydebank, correctly matched four number and both lucky stars, but only won £666.50.

He told the Scottish Sun: "I couldn't believe it. I was gutted."

He shared his losing ticket on Twitter, showing he correctly matched four of the five main numbers on his line, as well as the two lucky stars.

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