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Swindon retailer wins £10k in Camelot quarterly prize draw

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National Lottery retailer Narendra Patel, who owns Sherborne News in Swindon, has taken home the huge £10k prize in Camelot’s latest Site, Stock, Sell online quarterly prize draw. Narendra maintained high in-store standards for the sale of National Lottery products across all three months of the quarter, giving him automatic entry into the big draw …

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