Lottery down live: National Lottery app hit as players can’t buy tickets ahead of EuroMillions

The outage comes ahead of a £114 million EuroMillions draw, which is due to start at 8:45pm.

As of 7:10pm, National Lottery say they are still “working hard to resolve this”.

“We would recommend that players try again, as both do remain up and running. We’re really sorry for the inconvenience, and thank players for their patience,” the company added.