saw this on the news last night when i got in so im probably behind with the times a bit
lucky lucky people.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14161661A couple from Largs in Ayrshire have been named as the winners of the £161m Euromillions jackpot.
Chris Weir said she and her husband Colin were "tickled pink" when they realised they had scooped Tuesday's jackpot.
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"I even had a glass of white wine which is something I normally only do at Christmas!" laughed Chris.
The prize was Europe's biggest ever and was capped after a series of rollovers.
On the night of the draw Chris was checking their numbers about midnight on the television in their bedroom.
"I started circling the numbers I had matched but wasn't doing very well. Then on the fifth line, all the circles seemed to join up."
The telephone line run by Camelot for claims was closed. Chris and husband Colin sat up all night they were so excited.
"When we first realised we had won, it felt like a dream," Colin said. "Everything went into slow motion."
Life changing
When asked at a media conference in Falkirk what they will do with the money, Chris said: "We're not flashy people."
"The next steps are going to be the most difficult... with great wealth comes great responsibility," added Colin.
The Weirs have both had serious health conditions in recent years and have not been able to work.
Colin, 64, had previously worked as a television cameraman and Chris, 55, is a fully-trained psychiatric nurse.
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Winning numbers: 12 July 2011
7, 19, 38, 42 and 45
Lucky Stars 9 and 10
The most exciting aspect of their windfall is the opportunity to travel.
"We have both always wanted to see the Great Wall of China and Colin would love to stand at the foot of Ayres Rock in Australia," said Chris.
"We also love art galleries, so this gives us the chance to visit those in Paris and in Russia. These are all things we thought we would never see."
They have also already decided to buy homes for their two children, Carly and Jamie (both in their 20s).
UK winning streak
Before Tuesday's draw, the largest lottery winner in the UK was the player who claimed £113m in the Euromillions last October and chose to remain anonymous.
The couple have displaced former postal worker Angela Kelly from East Kilbride, who became Scotland's biggest winner in August 2007 when she scooped £35,425,411.80 in the Euromillions jackpot.
Britons have banked the Euromillions jackpot more than 14 times in the last two years.
Last year, two anonymous UK winners scooped £113m and £84m.
And Nigel and Justine Page, from Gloucestershire, won the £56m jackpot prize on EuroMillions in February 2010.
National Lottery operator Camelot runs the Euromillions draw in the UK and has also had the same role for the weekly Lotto draw since it was launched in 1994.
The firm says that its draws have created about 2,400 lottery millionaires in the UK in the intervening 17 years.
If the winner of Tuesday's draw had been a single player, he or she would instantly have been placed 430th in this year's Sunday Times Rich List just above Scottish businessman Sir Angus Grossart and Irina Abramovich, the former wife of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
Two other UK-based lottery players won £1.7m after they successfully matched five numbers and one Lucky Star.
you could never spend all that money and would certainly have enough to set your family for life and do some good with the money as well charity wise
ME?? what would i do with it?
id buy myself, mum and step dad a bungalow each.. kids a home each too ...help out my kids so they didnt have to struggle to get buy generally help out those i thought deserved it ... buy some houses to rent out
( just in case it all goes) and more than likely put a lot of money into the care agency that i work for...
guessing you would soon work out who are there for you just cos you got money and they would soon be weeded out i can tell you.. then of course as well you will suddenly get family and friends coming back into the fold /social circles for the same reason. i would also put a lot into cancer and chldrens charities ( kingfisher pre-school for 1, make up for that thieving scum who nicked 10 grand and doesnt have to pay it back)
and the air ambulance would get a substantial amount too ( never forgotten the banger racing meetin we went to taking my young children a month or 2 after their brother died for a normaility family day out, a car rolled over, needed air ambulance but died a few days later of his burns,,,, it was bloody horrific, i can still hear his blood curdling screams even now...and my kids remember it too even thought he youngest was only 3)
of course new car and holidays would be in the picture too...i want to go to france germany and norway to start with.... omg have i made dent in it yet???
would you like to win that sort of money?? if so what would you do with it?
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