Residents of an East Lancashire street have bagged a generous prize in the People's Postcode Lottery earlier this week.

Those with a lottery ticket and a BB3 3DF postcode were awarded a £1,000 win in one of the fundraising lottery's daily prize draws on Friday, November 10.

The winning postcode belongs to the People's Postcode Lottery players who live in London Terrace, Darwen.

Subscriptions to the postcode lottery supports a range of charities across the UK.

A minimum of 33 per cent of the ticket prices goes to charity.

The People's Postcode Lottery manages lotteries for 20 charities, with each one having one draw a month.

The lottery is hugely popular nationally and supports "a wide range of charities and good causes across Britain and around the world".

To date, they’ve generously provided more than £1.1bn in funding which is helping thousands of organisations and projects.