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£45m lottery couple are revealed £45m lottery couple are revealed
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A couple from south Wales who have won £45.5m on the Euromillions lottery have been named as Les Scadding, and his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding. A couple from south Wales who have won £45.5m on the Euromillions lottery have been named as Les Scadding and his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding.
The couple, from Caerleon near Newport, shared the £91m jackpot with a syndicate of IT workers from Liverpool.The couple, from Caerleon near Newport, shared the £91m jackpot with a syndicate of IT workers from Liverpool.
Mr Scadding, 58, and his wife Samantha, 38, celebrated their mammoth win with a Sunday lunch at their favourite restaurant. Mr Scadding, 58, and Samantha, 38, celebrated their mammoth win with a Sunday lunch washed down with champagne at their favourite restaurant.
They are talking about the win at St David's Hotel in Cardiff. The couple said they had to double-check their winning ticket.
Mr Scadding bought the winning ticket as a lucky dip at the Tesco store in Spytty Road, Newport while doing his grocery shopping. Mr Scadding bought the winning ticket as a lucky dip at the Tesco store in Spytty Road, Newport, while doing his grocery shopping.
It is the UK's largest-ever lottery prize and the couple are picking up their £45,570,835.50 cheque for half of the jackpot. He 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.
Biggest single win
"I thought I might have won around £50,000 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.
It is the UK's largest-ever lottery prize and the couple are picking up their £45,570,835.50 cheque for half the jackpot.
Until now, the biggest single win was by Angela Kelly, from South Lanarkshire, who won more than £35m (39m euros) in August 2007.Until now, the biggest single win was by Angela Kelly, from South Lanarkshire, who won more than £35m (39m euros) in August 2007.
The winning numbers on the Euromillions draw last Friday were 19, 43, 45, 34, 11 and the Lucky Star numbers were 5 and 9.The winning numbers on the Euromillions draw last Friday were 19, 43, 45, 34, 11 and the Lucky Star numbers were 5 and 9.
The couple are thought to be the seventh set of lottery millionaires to come from the same area of south Wales in the last three years.
They are celebrating their win with a group of Hewlett Packard IT workers from Liverpool who scooped the other half of last Friday's Euromillions jackpot.