The National Lottery app and website are currently offline, with hundreds of Lotto players reporting issues - however, the outage has been planned for a while ...

Hundreds of people went online this morning to report they were experiencing issues with the National Lottery app.

The National Lottery confirmed 'we're back' in a message shared on social media on Monday afternoon ...

The national-lottery.co.uk site, as well as the iOS and Android apps, was out of service between 11pm on Saturday until the end of Sunday.