Lucky WorldEuroMillions Winners Made Public

Lucky winners of the £45 million fortune

Jackpot of £45,570,835 shared between lucky winners

After a nail-biting wait we now know who are the lucky winners of the massive £90.

Les Scadding and his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding, from Caerleon in South Wales, have jumped into joint first place in The National Lottery Rich List, after winning a staggering £45,570,835.50. They banked half of the jackpot in the EuroMillions draw last Friday, 6 November 2009.

Mr Scadding, 58, said that he was convinced he would win the lottery one day but he added: “I’m a lucky man, lucky to be here today even without my winnings.”

Les went to Tesco on Spytty Road in Newport, where he bought his Lucky Dip ticket, and decided to check his EuroMillions ticket. He recalled, "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.

As he drove home Mr Scadding began to suspect that he could be a big winner. He said: “I had the figure of £50,000 in my head and I would have been very happy with that.” Les got back to the house, where Samantha was doing some work at her computer. She immediately went online to check their numbers, where it was revealed that two winners in the UK had shared over £90 million. As she read them out one-by-one Mr Scadding said: “Got that”, “Got that” a total of seven times. By the last one Mrs Peachey-Scadding was shaking so much that she dropped the laptop.

Some lottery millionaires say that their big win will never change them. Mrs Peachey-Scadding is more realistic. “There is no way you can’t be changed by something like that, but it will be change for the better. There is so much we can do for people we love,” she said.

Les, who has 3 grown-up children from his first marriage, is a qualified mechanic, but has worked for many years as a driver for various haulage companies. He is currently out of work, and had been looking for temporary driving contracts until Friday's incredible win. Samantha runs her own marketing company, and works from home. She said: "There is quite a lot of pressure involved in running your own business, and I've been working 12 hour days recently. This win means I can take my foot off the pedal and relax a bit."

Les says his first purchase will probably be replacing his Citroen C5 with a Range Rover Sport. The couple also plan to move to a bigger house, but say they will probably stay in South Wales, as well as buying a holiday home, maybe in Barbados.

Les and Samantha have now reached the joint first in The National Lottery Rich List ahead of two other EuroMillions winners; Glasgow postal worker Angela Kelly who won £35.4m on 10th August 2007 and Brian and Joan Caswell from Bolton who won £24.9million in June.

Sharing the jackpot were syndicate winners ‘The Magnificent Seven’ who work for Hewlett Packard. The syndicate includes John Walsh (57), James Bennett (28), Sean Connor (32), Alex Parry (19), Emma Cartwright (23), Ceri Scullion (35) and Donna Rhodes (39) who have each banked £6.5million.

Syndicate leader John Walsh said: "I couldn't sleep on Sunday morning so ended up checking the numbers on Teletext at 3am. I couldn't believe it when all our numbers came up. I had to wake up my wife and son and daughter so they could double check I wasn't dreaming. I had left the ticket in my drawer at work, so I went in on Sunday morning to make sure it was still there and then called the rest of the syndicate to tell them the good news.