The people of Cornwall have recently had the opportunity to become members of the Gold Bond Weekly Draw in aid of the Cornish Pirates.

Membership costs as little as £1 per week, with there already a good number of members who have won various amounts since the draw was introduced - and some on more than one occasion! However, the real good news last week is that there has been a first winner who has won the weekly jackpot of £2,000.

The lucky recipient is Andrew Stacey from Newlyn, who pays his membership through Woots News in Causewayhead, Penzance, where he also buys his weekly copy of 'Rugby Times'. Trevor and Mandy Wootton, the newsagent proprietors, also have good reason to be happy, for being the agency from where the winning weekly membership is collected, entitles them also to a more than satisfactory sum of £200.

Besides the weekly Gold Bond prize for £2,000, there are also numerous other prizes ranging from £5 to £500, and there also an Annual Jackpot Prize for the magnificent sum of £10,000. Members receive a full list of winners after each draw directly to their supplied email address, but as all winners are paid automatically there is no need for them to worry if they don't manage to check the winning numbers each week.

Andrew, Trevor and Mandy will now be guests of the Pirates when they play Bedford at Camborne this coming Sunday 8th March, which is a day when the Cornish team will present their first St. Piran's Festival in partnership with Coastline Housing. The gates open at 11am, and the game starts at 3pm.

Gold Bond Weekly Draw Details

Promoter: G Steele in conjunction with Blackpool FC Development Association