Refuse collectors help Italian woman recover binned €1m lottery ticket

Winner called waste management team after she realised stub showing she had hit the jackpot had been thrown away

A 1m lottery ticket has been recovered from the rubbish in Italy after the frantic winner called on refuse collectors to help her retrieve it, according to the waste management company.

The instant win ticket was miraculously still in one piece" after garbage workers combed through mounds of rubbish on their truck, said Roberto Nicola Toscano, the administrator of the SANB company in Italy's southern Puglia region.