Postalworker wins EuroMillions lottery
Postalworker wins EuroMillions lottery
Postalworker scoops £35m jackpot
Postalworker Angela Kelly said she was "still in shock" after becoming the UK’s biggest lottery winner. Ms Kelly, 40, from East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, landed £35.4m in Friday’s EuroMillions draw, but did not realise her win until Monday. The ticket was in her handbag and she only checked it when she realised the jackpot had gone unclaimed.
Ms Kelly, who lives with her 14-year-old son, said she would quit her job at a Glasgow sorting office. It would have taken Ms Kelly, who earns about £16,000 annually, about 2,000 years to earn the amount of her win.
In July 2005, mother-of-six Dolores McNamara, from Limerick, Ireland, won £77m, and in February 2006 three ticket holders won a share of £126m. The UK’s first EuroMillions jackpot winner was Marion Richardson from Gateshead who won £16.8m in April 2004. Her total was exceeded by an anonymous winner in the UK who scooped £17.8m with a single ticket.
EuroMillions is played in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Portugal, France, Luxembourg, Spain and Switzerland.