£113m British lotto winner: One EuroMillions ticket scoops UK's biggest-ever jackpot

One astonishingly lucky British ticketholder will be waking up today to find themselves £113million richer.
A single ticket bought in the UK scooped the entire gigantic EuroMillions jackpot last night.
It is by far the biggest ever lottery win in this country.
Last night, operator Camelot was waiting for the mystery holder of the winning ticket to come forward and claim their unimaginable riches.
But it is not yet known if the winner is an individual or a syndicate - and whether they will want to reveal their identity or remain anonymous.

The previous record for Britain’s biggest single lottery win was £84.4million - instantly becoming the 789th richest person in the country.
The EuroMillions lottery winner never identified themselves publicly, after becoming an overnight multi-millionaire in May this year.
Prior to that, Nigel Page and Justine Laycock, from Barnsley, Gloucestershire, held the record, scooping £56million in February.
After winning half of the £113million EuroMillions jackpot, Mr Page, 43, and Miss Laycock, 41, moved in to a new eco-friendly £4million mansion - leaving their existing £400,000 home nearby to their cleaner.
Operators Camelot confirmed that last night’s win is the biggest lottery prize ever won by one ticket in the UK and said it was ‘looking forward to welcoming the lucky ticket-holder to the National Lottery millionaires’ club'.
The winner was the only one of tens of millions of players to tick all seven correct numbers - claiming the prize against odds of 76,275,360 to one.

The winning EuroMillions numbers were 9, 30, 35, 39, 46, with lucky stars 6 and 8.

The £113million windfall will let the winner live the life of a rock star.

Millionaire Raffle

The Millionaire Raffle is a recent addition to the UK side of the EuroMillions Lottery game. The idea behind this exciting new addition to the EuroMillions is that the National Lottery will be creating a new UK Millionaire every week irrespective of what happens in the main euromillions draw. There is a guaranteed £1 million prize on the Millionaire Raffle every single week and there will only be one winning number drawn.
Lottery players in the UK who play the EuroMillions will see that that there is no change to the way in which they buy lottery tickets for the EuroMillions, nor in  the way that this lottery game is played. The only change that will be evident is the rise in cost to incorporate the Millionaire Raffle into the lottery game play.

The Millionaire Raffle will not change any odds or chances of winning the EuroMillions main lottery game in any way at all, so lottery players can still enjoy exactly the same experience when they play the EuroMillions as they always have, but maybe with a little more excitement with the addition of the Millionaire Raffle.
This Millionaire Raffle game is exclusive to players of the EuroMillions in the UK. People buying EuroMillions lottery tickets in any other participating EuroMillions country do not have the option to play this new game.
As with all lottery games, odds do fluctuate from time to time. This can be  for many reasons, but mainly that rollovers and multi-rollovers which can create huge jackpot prizes in any lottery. This also generates a much higher volume of lottery ticket sales and this general rule also applies to the EuroMillions. When the jackpot is high, more people will buy Euromillions lottery tickets and this will create more entries into the Millionaire Raffle, in turn decreasing the odds of winning the Millionaire Raffle.

Euromillion Double Roll Over

With £24.1 million up for grabs, ticket sales were high for Friday night’s Euromillions Lottery rollover. However, no one matched all five winning numbers and the lucky stars to win the jackpot and that means next week it’s the first Euromillions double rollover of the year with an estimated jackpot of £36 million. The winning numbers in last night’s draw were 2 – 3 – 15 – 45 – 49, lucky stars 5 and 9 so check those lottery tickets now as there were a few big prizes given away.

Clearly the above numbers were not lucky for players; as well as the rollover, just six players matched all the main numbers and one lucky star and just one of those was from the UK, collecting £360,605! However, this does mean a monster Euromillions jackpot to play for next week, it’s already estimated at £36 million and as it’s the first double rollover of 2011 it may get even higher than that.

Grimsby Couple celbrate life changing win

Grimsby Couple Sue and Lee Mullen are celebrating a life changing £4.8 Million win on last weeks EuroMillions (4th February 2011). The couple only started playing the national lottery Six weeks ago after Sue had a dream they were going to win. At the press conference Lee explained how they used to play the national lottery but gave up some years ago when they missed out winning the jackpot because they couldn’t afford a ticket to play their usual line of numbers.
Disillusioned by seeing their six numbers drawn but not having bought the ticket they said they would never play again, that is until Sues dream. The couple began to play the Monday and Wednesday National Lottery draws and the Friday EuroMillions Draw it was Saturday morning when Sue checked the laptop to see if they had won.

“I thought hang on a minute, my ticket looks exactly the same as that! I dragged my husband out of the bathroom to take a look and then dragged my eldest son out of bed too! We just couldn’t believe it! we jigged around the living-room together for about an hour before I could call Camelot. we have been on cloud nine ever since!” said Sue.
Sue who is registered disabled and Lee who was medically discharged from the Royal Navy and are both unable to work told how “money has always been tight” but Lee said they will not be cavalier with their win. He said of his old 1999 T registered Mondeo
“I will keep the car and when I feel I need to I will go and take a look it, It will remind me of how things used to be and keep my feet on the ground”