STAFF arrived to work at National Lottery’s kiosk in The Brunel Shopping Centre this morning, to find it would not be opening and they had lost their jobs.

The shopping centre confirmed Rieves UK Limited, the UK’s retail lottery specialist which operates 35 kiosks across the nation’s shopping centres, had closed its unit.

Customers said staff had turned up to work at the centre today, but found the kiosk would not be opening.

A spokesman for Camelot, the licensed operator of National Lottery, said: "Rieves has gone into administration, we understand.

"Normally, if a retailer goes into administration we remove its right to sell tickets and re-site the machines elsewhere as soon as possible.

"Their machines have been suspended, though we use the term suppressed, which means their terminals no longer work."

Rieves is yet to comment on the developments, but it is thought all of its kiosks are affected.