National Lottery ticket-holder scoops £7.6million jackpot on Saturday

Is it you? Lucky National Lottery ticket-holder scoops £7.6 million jackpot on Saturday

• One lucky player won the £7.6 million prize with numbers 03, 05, 37, 46, 47, 57
• Players are being urged to check their tickets to find out if they are the winner 

One lucky player has scooped £7.6 million after winning the National Lottery jackpot on Saturday. 

Players have been urged to check their tickets to check if they are the winner, and claim the prize. 

Wednesday’s jackpot is now an estimated £2 million following the weekend win. 

The winning numbers were 03, 05, 37, 46, 47, 57 – and the bonus ball was 50. 

Set of balls one and draw machine Guinevere were used. 

Wednesday’s jackpot is now an estimated £2 million following the weekend win

In Saturday’s draw, two ticket-holders also scooped £1 million each after matching five numbers and the bonus ball

Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at The National Lottery, said: ‘What wonderful news, one ticket-holder has won tonight’s fantastic £7.6 million Lotto jackpot. 

‘Players are urged to check their tickets and to give us a call to claim this jackpot prize. 

‘Thanks to National Lottery players, £30 million is generated every week for Good Causes across the country. 

‘This money supports projects across the nation, with a total of more than 670,000 grants – to projects both big and small – having been made across the UK to date.’ 

In Saturday’s draw, two ticket-holders also scooped £1 million each after matching five numbers and the bonus ball. 

No-one secured the top prize in the Lotto HotPicks, which uses the same numbers as the main draw. 

The winning Thunderball numbers were 02, 04, 08, 20, and 29 – and the Thunderball was 05. 

Two players scooped £500,000 for matching five numbers plus the Thunderball, and three ticket-holders won £5,000 with five matching numbers.

Who is the biggest ever UK lottery winner? Two couples and a former car mechanic top list

Here are the ten previous UK winners of the EuroMillions draw so far

1. In July 2011, Colin and Chris Weir became Europe’s biggest lottery winners when they scooped more than £161million.

The couple, who have been married for 30 years, said they were ‘not scared’ of the wealth because they were going to have ‘so much fun’ with the money.

The pair, a retired TV cameraman and a retired psychiatric nurse, from Largs, in Ayrshire, said their children Carly, a photography student, and Jamie, a call centre worker, would be bought their own homes and cars.

The family made a £1million donation to the SNP shortly after winning.

Colin and Chris Weir became Europe’s biggest lottery winners when they scooped more than £161million in 2011

2. Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148 million in August 2012.

The marriage ended just 15 months into their new jackpot winning lives, citing the stress of the money as the reason they needed to split.

At the time, a spokesman for Mrs Bayford said: ‘Gillian Bayford confirms that her marriage to Adrian has broken down irretrievably and they have separated.’

It came after Mrs Bayford was forced to deny she had an affair with the couple’s gardener, Chris Tovey. 

Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148 million in August 2012

3. An anonymous ticket-holder took home £123m in July

4. Patrick and Frances Connolly from County Armagh scooped the entire £115million EuroMillions jackpot on New Year’s Day 2019

5. An unnamed ticket-holder claimed just over £113million in October 2010, and chose not go public. 

6. Neil Trotter, from south London, won nearly £108million, going from former car mechanic to multimillionaire in March 2014.

Neighbours in Croydon described he and partner Nicky Ottaway moved out ‘almost overnight’ after they scooped the EuroMillions jackpot last March.

Mr Trotter admitted at the time that he was like his namesake, Del Boy Trotter from Only Fools And Horses.

Neil Trotter, with partner Nicky Ottaway, won nearly £108million, going from former car mechanic to multimillionaire in March 2014

7. Steve Thomson and his wife Lenka, from West Sussex, became the UK’s biggest EuroMillions winners when they claimed a prize worth £105million in November 2019. 

8. A couple from Cambridgeshire, Dave and Angela Dawes, won more than £101million on their third go on the EuroMillions draw in October 2011.

Mr Dawes said he ‘didn’t sleep a wink’ the night of the win, as it was too late to call Camelot after the couple checked their numbers.

Last year, the couple were taken to court by his son, an Afghanistan veteran, Michael Dawes, 32, who said he was ‘ungenerous in spirit’.

But a judge ruled the millionaire father does not need to keep bailing out his son, who burnt through £1.6million in two years, and came back for more, failing to heed his stepmother’s advice to stop eating at the Ritz and go to McDonald’s instead.

Dave and Angela Dawes won more than £101million on their third go on the EuroMillions draw in October 2011

9. A UK winner got a £93 million payout in June 2015, but decided to remain anonymous.

10. The Davies from Wales family won £61million on the EuroMillions in 2016

Stephanie Davies, 23 is said to have ‘reluctantly’ purchased the ticket at the time after her mother Sonia called her from Florida begging her to go out and buy one.

Keith Reynolds, Sonia Davies, Stephanie, Courtney Davies and Steve Powell all scooped money on the jackpot and said they were the ‘luckiest people’ on the planet to have won. 

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