I thought I'd won £50,000, says £45m Lotto winner

The English couple who scooped £45.5m (€50.7m) in the Euromillions jackpot today told how they celebrated with a traditional Sunday lunch washed down with a couple of bottles of champagne at their local restaurant.

Les Scadding, 58, and his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding, 38, from Caerleon, South Wales, could hardly believe their luck and had to double check their winning ticket.

Mr Scadding said: “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 (€55,700) and I rushed home to tell Samantha.”

After frantic double-checking online, he 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.”

They are thought to be the seventh set of lottery millionaires to come from Gwent in the last three years.

A group of IT workers from Liverpool were also celebrating their share of Friday’s night whopping £91m (€101m) jackpot.