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A lottery ticket holder has lost out on £10,000 a month for a year after the deadline ended to claim the prize.

The ticket was bought in Cardiff and the purchaser had six months to claim the prize worth £120,000. It has now gone into the National Lottery's good causes pot.

Lottery winners' adviser Andy Carter said it was "fairly rare" for prizes to go unclaimed.

The biggest unclaimed prize was a £56m ticket about eight years ago.

He said with more people playing online or via an app, "tickets don't go astray" as winners are notified automatically.

Mr Carter told 91Èȱ¬ Radio Wales Breakfast the exact location of where a winning ticket was purchased is not revealed in case the holder wished to remain anonymous.

And he said that if someone lost a winning ticket they could notify the organisation which would then investigate.