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£45m lottery couple are revealed Jobless man's £45m lottery ticket
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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. An unemployed mechanic and his wife have been revealed as winners of £45.5m on the Euromillions lottery.
The couple, from Caerleon near Newport, shared the £91m jackpot with a syndicate of IT workers from Liverpool. Les Scadding, 58, and Samantha Peachey-Scadding, 38, from Caerleon near Newport, shared the £91m jackpot with a syndicate of IT workers from Liverpool.
Mr Scadding, 58, and Samantha, 38, celebrated their mammoth win with a Sunday lunch washed down with champagne at their favourite restaurant. They celebrated their mammoth win with a Sunday lunch washed down with champagne at their favourite restaurant.
The couple said they had to double-check their winning ticket. When he bought his ticket, Mr Scadding was £68 overdrawn at the bank.
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, an unemployed mechanic and haulage driver, has been out of work since Christmas.
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. He bought the winning ticket - one of two lucky dip lines - at the Tesco store in Spytty Road, Newport, while doing his grocery shopping last Friday.
Biggest single win We were in total shock. We were just looking and pinching ourselves. It was unreal. The feeling was unbelievable Samantha Peachey-Scadding
When he went back to the supermarket the next night he decided to check his Euromillions tickets.
"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.""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. 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."
Mrs Peachey-Scadding, who has her own marketing business from home, said they rang Camelot and got the winning numbers and then checked them off against her husband's and realised they all matched.
She said: "We were in total shock. We were just looking and pinching ourselves. It was unreal. The feeling was unbelievable.
Range Rover
Mr Scadding has survived cancer five years ago, and has three grown-up children, whom he said he has always told he would win the lottery one day.
He said his daughter in Abu Dhabi was always ringing saying "Have you won the lottery yet?" and now he has.
He said it was too early to say what they would spend their millions on but his dream car was a Range Rover sport - black with an ivory interior.
The couple plan to move to a bigger house, but say they will probably stay in south Wales, although they may also buy a holiday home.
They also intend to splash out on holidays in Barbados.
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.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.
The winning ticket was bought from the same story from which another lottery winner - Jenny Southall - won more than £8m in 2007
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. A group of Hewlett Packard IT workers from Liverpool scooped the other half of last Friday's Euromillions jackpot.
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.