Two lucky British ticketholders won £90m from the Euromillions lottery jackpot.
The lucky pair got £45,570,835.50 each which is the the largest lottery prizes ever paid out in
the UK.
A National Lottery spokeswoman said: “This is fantastic news. These two ticketholders have just banked the largest lottery prizes ever in the country. We have plenty of champagne on ice and are looking forward to welcoming the lucky ticketholders to the National Lottery millionaires club.”
The previous highest prize belonged to Angela Kelly a postal worker from Glasgow, who won £35.4m in August 2007.
This month The National Lottery is celebrating its 15th anniversary and from next week every Euromillions ticket will include the Millionaire Raffle game, where every week one UK player will win £1m.
