Lottery Winners

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The UK winners now has a fortune of those outshone the singer Sir Tom Jones , Adele and Ed Sheeran

A UK ticket-holder has won the full £170m Euro millions jackpot, make the UK the most to the richest ever lottery winner.

National Lottery operator Camelot said the £170,221,000. 00-jackpot won by a single ticket holder on Tuesday.

The ticket-holder is not named and it is unknown whether there is a single person, A Family or a syndicate.

The winning numbers 7, 10, 15, 44 and 49 were picked up, with 3 and 12 selected numbers for the Lucky Star .

If The Winner is an individual, their new-found wealth would earn them a place in the Sunday Times list of the 1,000 richest people in Britain-Rich, or with the British business Links .

The Winner is wealth eclipses that of the singer Sir Tom Jones , Ed Sheeran and Adele, who is Worth £165m, £160m and £150m respectively.

PA media previous UK winner

£161mColin and Chris Weir from North Ayrshire, Scotland, in the Year 2011.

£148mAdrian and Gillian Bayford from Suffolk in 2012 .

£123mAnonymous UK ticket-holder in June .

£121. 3mAnonymous UK ticket-holder in April of last Year .

£114. 9mPatrick and Frances Connolly, of NI, in January.

source: BBC

The lucky ticket-holder has also beaten the previous record, held by Colin and Chris Weir, they Claimed the UK was the richest lottery winner, £161m in 2011.

Andy Carter, a senior winners, " a consultant for the National Lottery said: "An incredibly lucky ticket-holder scooped tonight's enormous £170m Euro millions jackpot.

"you are now the UK's biggest winner. Players across the country are urged to check their tickets as soon as possible. "

The Euro millions jackpot has 22 rolled over consecutive times since the 19th century. In July, The First to reach the maximum prize money in the amount of € 170 (€190m) on 24 September.

Under the jackpot cap rules, The Top prize can roll over four times in a row, once the cap is reached, before it must be won in the fifth and Final Draw , which happened on Tuesday.

If nobody had won the main prize by matching five numbers plus two Lucky Stars, the entire jackpot would have rolled down to the next level, and most likely, where you have five numbers and a Lucky Star matched.

It is the First Time that a jackpot went and the draw has To Be Won on his cap and only for the second time, drawing you ever been held; The First was on November 17, 2006.

Tickets for the EuroMillions are sold in nine countries - the UK, France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Republic of Ireland, Portugal and Switzerland - with ticket-holders in all those countries, to try and win a part of the same jackpot each week.

Ade Goodchild won £71m in the Euro millions lottery in March

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Source of news: bbc.com