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Euromillions £ 105m jackpot won by UK ticket-holder – BBC News, Google News


        

                                 EuroMillions machineImage copyright                 Getty Images                                                  

A UK ticket-holder has won the full £ 105 Euromillions jackpot.

The winning numbers picked were 8, 10, 15, 30 and 42, with 4 and 6 selected for the Lucky Star numbers .

It is the sixth EuroMillions jackpot won by a UK ticket-holder this year, and coincides with the 25 th anniversary of the first National Lottery draw.

Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at the National Lottery, urged players to check their tickets to “see if they have won big “.

Another player also became a millionaire by matching the” Millionaire Maker “code ZMSF 62402.

The win comes a month aftera UK ticket-holder claimed a record £ 170 m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain’s richest ever lottery winner and earning them a place on the Sunday Times’ Rich List of the 1, 00 0 wealthiest people living in the UK or with British business links.

That followed a£ 123 m win in June, a £ 38 m win in April, a£ 71 m win in Marchand a£ 115 m win in January.

Before October’s jackpot, the biggest UK winners were a couple from from Largs in North Ayrshire, Scotland, who won £ 161 mi n July 2011.

‘It doesn’t really sink in’

                                                                                                      Image copyright                 Jamie Heavens                                                  

This week the National Lottery celebrated 25 years since the first draw on (November) .

To mark the occasion,Radio 1’s Newsbeat spoke to Jamie Heavens, a roofer from Bournemouth, who became a millionaire at the age of 22, about what it is like to win such a sum overnight.

“It doesn’t really sink in until the money hits your account. There’s a sense of relief that you can go and do what you want to

“People think I’m minted – that I’m cash rich and can just go and buy what I want every day. But it’s not like that. “

            

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