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No-one won the record £166 million jackpot prize in Friday’s EuroMillions draw.
The top prize is now frozen and will stay in place for the next draw on Tuesday.
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The biggest lottery jackpot in British history is up for grabs after no-one won the EuroMillions draw on Friday.
A massive £154 million jackpot is now on offer as the top prize rolls over yet again.
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It was a case of second-time lucky for British couple Sue and Lee Mullen, after winning a £4.8 million EuroMillions jackpot .
Six years ago, when they were desperately short of cash and had a newborn baby to look after, the couple decided to forgo their weekly £1 lottery entry and put the money towards nappies instead.
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When Nigel Page and Justine Laycock became Britain’s biggest lottery winners, they vowed to look after their family and friends.
And just a fortnight after scooping half of the £113 million Euromillions jackpot, they made good on their promise.
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Britain’s biggest-ever lottery winners, Nigel Page, 43, and his partner Justine Laycock, 41, talk about their £56m EuroMillions jackpot windfall from last Friday’s EuroMillions draw.
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Pensioner George Sturt, who still drives cabs for a living at the age of 76, along with his family of builders, have been named as the winners of a £26.1 million EuroMillions jackpot.
Hailing from Dorking in the UK, the widower plans to give the majority of his fortune away to charity and cancer research after the death of his wife to cancer six months ago.
Mr Sturt, who has eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren, is to share the win with three other members of his family syndicate – his daughter Teresa, 44, and sons Colin, 53, and Gary, 51.
After learning the news of his windfall, Mr Sturt walked into the offices of his local newspaper at lunchtime on Monday, announcing he had won the lottery.
“I couldn’t believe it when I found out,” Mr Sturt said.
“I don’t care about having a lot of money – I am just glad that my children will be looked after.”
The former builder said the jackpot, believed to be the fourth-biggest Euromillions won by a British ticketholder, would not translate into his retirement because he enjoyed driving cabs so much.
“I wouldn’t give it up,” he told the Dorking Advertiser.
“I have met too many nice people through it.”
His son Colin said to The Sun: “We had a bit of a drink-up to celebrate but the big knees up will come when the cheque is in the bank.”
“I am honestly still in a state of shock.
“This sort of thing happens to other people and not people like us – it is absolutely crazy.
“We put £4 each into a syndicate each week, but you don’t in your wildest dreams ever think you are going to hit it big like this. I mean it is over six million quid each.”
He continued: “It will be difficult to go back to building houses when you can afford to buy any house that you want.”
The winning ticket included the numbers 11, 26, 29, 49, and 50, with the lucky star numbers 4 and 7.
Mr Sturt was described as a “lovely bloke” and that he lived a humble life working as a taxi driver to make ends meet on his pensioner’s income.
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What would you do with a £95 million EuroMillions lottery win? A top banker gives his expert advice.
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Les Scadding and his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding, from Caerleon in South Wales, have jumped into joint first place in The National Lottery Rich List, after winning a staggering £45,570,835.50 jackpot in a EuroMillions draw which took place earlier this month.
Les, 58, and Samantha, 38, quietly celebrated their win with a Sunday lunch in their favourite restaurant, after learning of the win on a Saturday evening. Les went to Tesco on Spytty Road in Newport, where he bought his Lucky Dip ticket, to buy some groceries on Saturday evening, and decided to check his EuroMillions ticket on the way out.
“When I asked the people behind the counter to check the numbers, the machine just printed out a pink slip, telling me to contact Camelot. I thought I might have won around £50,000, and I rushed home to tell Samantha,” he recalled.
Les got back to the house, where Samantha was doing some work at her computer. She immediately went online to check their numbers, where it was revealed that two winners in the UK had shared over £90 million.
Les said: “It was a very funny couple of minutes. We just looked at each other while it sunk in, before we got on the phone to Camelot.”
However, despite their windfall, the couple took the staggering news in their stride, and on Sunday went for lunch at their favourite restaurant, The Priory, in Caerleon, with Samantha’s mother.
Les said: “We always go to The Priory, as I know the owner really well, so we wouldn’t have gone anywhere different. We ordered a couple of bottles of Champagne and just had a quiet chat about it all, and tried to let it all sink in.”
Les, who has three grown-up children from his first marriage, is a qualified mechanic, but has worked for many years as a driver for various haulage companies. He is currently out of work, and had been looking for temporary driving contracts until Friday’s incredible win. Samantha runs her own marketing company, and works from home.
She said: “There is quite a lot of pressure involved in running your own business, and I’ve been working 12 hour days recently. This win means I can take my foot off the pedal and relax a bit.”
Les says his first purchase will probably be replacing his Citroen C5 with a Range Rover Sport. The couple also plan to move to a bigger house, but say they will probably stay in South Wales, and will also possibly purchase a holiday home.
Les and Samantha are now joint first in The National Lottery Rich List ahead of two other EuroMillions winners; Glasgow postal worker Angela Kelly who won £35.4m on 10th August 2007 and Brian and Joan Caswell from Bolton who won £24.9million in June this year.
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The winner of Europe’s largest-ever lottery prize won by a single ticket holder, an unnamed 25-year-old Spanish woman, was finally found yesterday after realising she had won the 126 million euro jackpot.
Lottery officials across Europe had been searching since last Friday’s EuroMillions draw for the winner, who was unaware of her record windfall because she was struck down with the flu.
The woman, from Majorca, only discovered she had become a multi-millionaire when she returned to work on Monday.
Still ill with the flu, the winner returned to work after fearing she might lose her job because of the recession, only to switch on her mobile phone and receive a phone call informing her she won the jackpot.
Since the record jackpot win was revealed on Friday, Spain has been abuzz trying to discover the identity of the lucky winner, who is travelling to Madrid today to collect her winnings.
The winning seven-number combination in Friday’s EuroMillions draw was 4, 23, 24, 29, 31 and Lucky Stars 9 and 8.
The previous biggest EuroMillions winner was Dolores McNamara, from Ireland, who scooped €115 million in 2005.
EuroMillions tickets are sold in the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg.
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Irish mother-of-six, Dolores McNamara, became the biggest individual winner in EuroMillions history when she won her €115 million jackpot prize on July 31.
McNamara, 46, went into hiding at a hotel in Cork for four days before claiming her prize cheque at the Irish National Lottery’s Dublin offices.
The surprise windfall came as a welcome stroke of luck for struggling mother McNamara, who works part-time as a cleaner while her husband Adrian recovers from coronary artery bypass surgery.
After claiming her prize, McNamara issued a statement through her solicitor, David Sweeney, saying: “Dolores is absolutely thrilled with her win but realises that it will take some time for the implications of her win to sink in.
“Up to now, Dolores has lived a very happy and contented life among her family, friends and neighbours and it is her sincere desire that she and her family will return to normality as soon as possible.”
He added: “She is absolutely determined that her feet and the feet of her family will remain firmly on the ground.”
McNamara also appealed to the media to afford her “space and privacy to get her life back to normal.”
McNamara’s €2 quick-pick ticket, purchased at a convenience store near her home in the Limerick suburb of Garryowen, matched the EuroMillion draw’s five winning numbers 3, 19, 26, 49, and 50, as well as the two “lucky stars” 4 and 5.
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