Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Shock of £45m lottery win couple

Happy Couple

A couple from south Wales have been revealed as winners of £45.5m on the Euromillions lottery.

Les Scadding, 58, and Samantha Peachey-Scadding, 38, from Caerleon near Newport, shared the £91m jackpot with a syndicate of IT workers from Liverpool.

They celebrated with lunch washed down with £127-a-bottle champagne at their favourite restaurant on Sunday.

When he bought his ticket, Mr Scadding, who survived cancer five years ago, was £68 overdrawn at the bank.

Mr Scadding, a grandfather of six, has been out of work as a mechanic and haulage driver since Christmas.

He bought the winning ticket - one of two lucky dip lines - at the Tesco store in Spytty Road, Newport, while doing his grocery shopping last Friday.

Les Scadding: "I have always said I was going to win the lottery"

When he went back to the supermarket the next night he decided to check his Euromillions tickets.

"When I asked the people behind the counter to check the numbers the machine just printed out a pink slip telling me to contact Camelot.

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