By Gillian Ellison

Last updated 11:47, Thursday, 20 November 2008

THE Cleator house raffle has attracted ticket sales from as far as Singapore, New Zealand and Switzerland.

So far 750 tickets have been sold in just three weeks and people are showing a lot of interest.

Sue Wickwar laun-ched the competition in The Whitehaven News to sell her house by raffle to beat the credit crunch. The house, at 26 Kiln Brow, is valued at £105,000.

Ten thousand tickets, priced at £12.50 each, are on sale by logging onto the website www.houserafflecumbria.co.uk and answering three questions.

And to make the competition more accessible there is now a leaflet/entry form available. Sue will be giving the forms out this Saturday in Whitehaven’s King Street and is hoping to do the same in Morrisons and Tesco during the run up to Christmas.

“We wanted to give more people access to the competition,” said Sue, a driving instructor, of Moor Row.

“We have had tickets sold as far as Singapore and New Zealand but it has been predominantly local interest from the Whitehaven, Egremont, Cleator Moor and Carlisle areas.”