Waste workers trawl through rubbish mountain to find binned €1,000,000 lottery ticket

Nicola Roberto Toscano (pictured) led a team of waste workers who trawled through a mountain of rubbish to find a discarded winning lottery ticket (Picture: Nicola Roberto Toscano/Facebook)

A lottery player was lucky twice after throwing away a €1 million winning ticket and finding it again.

The lucky winner had discarded their ticket, believing it to be worthless, after buying it at a shop in Bitonto in the southern Italian region of Puglia.

In reality, it had hit the jackpot with the €1 million (£857,158) win, but due to a misunderstanding, the player threw it away.

But the anonymous player had second thoughts...