Get ready to say nanu-nanu to the end this festive season

The final season of Mork and Mindy is coming out on DVD in less than three weeks time. But right now, it's the twentieth anniversary of the first UK National Lottery draw. The first draw took place on 19 November 1994 with a television programme presented by Noel Edmonds. This was an hour long special, in which 49 contestants competed to become the first person to start the draw, the winner being 18-year-old Deborah Walsh. The first number to be drawn was 30. The next numbers drawn were 3, 5, 44, 14, and 22; the bonus number was 10; and seven jackpot winners shared a prize of £5,874,778 (£839,254 each). But enough about that because a new generation of New Zealand banknotes will be revealed tomorrow afternoon, when the new banknote designs will be unveiled during a media lock up at the Reserve Bank before being added to circulation late next year. While the designs will be updated, the themes of the notes will remain the same, with the same New Zealanders (or old British woman in the case of the $20 note), flora, and fauna remaining. The notes will have a more modern look, feature larger print stating note denominations, and greater colour contrast between notes. The process will cost the Reserve Bank an estimated $80 million and is the first change to New Zealand banknotes since 1999 when banknotes went from being printed on paper made from cotton to polymer.