jueves, 30 de junio de 2011

Race on for biggest jackpot - The Sun

TOMORROW'S EuroMillions jackpot is a bank-busting 136MILLION - the biggest ever in the UK.

If one lucky punter scoops the prize, it will smash the 113million record set by an anonymous British ticketholder last October.

The winner will shoot straight into 513th place on the Rich List with more cash than film stars including Gwyneth Paltrow, musicians and Premier League footballers.

Camelot are expecting ticket sales to exceed two million per hour tomorrow as players try to get their hands on the impressive windfall.

The staggering jackpot also breaks the previous record of a 126million for a EuroMillions draw in February 2006, which was won by one Portuguese and two French ticket holders.

A National Lottery spokesman said: "This is amazing news. If a single ticket-holder were to win they would soar to the top of the exclusive National Lottery Rich List."

The jackpot is so big because no one guessed the EuroMillions' five main numbers and two Lucky Star numbers yesterday.

So the prize has now rolled over to tomorrow, with an estimated 136million up for grabs.

The spokesman added: "Needless to say the champagne is on ice and we hope to be creating lots more UK winners in the draw."

The winner would be placed in the Rich List between Eric Clapton (125million) and Tom Jones (140million).

They would also be worth more than Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow (48million), Daniel Radcliffe (48million) and Ricky Gervais (32million) put together.

A jackpot winner wanting to splash the cash could buy a 250ft super yacht, just like the one owned by Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, which has its own sauna and helipad and costs around 78million.

The money could also buy 27 Diamond Rose iPhone 4s, which are made with rose gold and set with 500 diamonds and cost 5million.

Car fans could snap up every one of the 77 Aston Martin One-77s ever made - at 1.2million the most expensive cars in the world that can reach 200mph.

Alternatively, they could buy 4,184 houses in Burnley, Lancs, which is one of the cheapest places to buy property in the UK. We told this week how a two-up two-down there recently sold for just 10,000.

The jackpot would enable you to buy 1,133 bottles of the priciest bottle of bubbly in history. The 120,000 'Midas' of Armand De Brignac was sprayed in a London club earlier this week by mega-rich gambler Don Johnson.

It could even buy you all the tickets for this and next year's men's final at Wimbledon and you would still have 34million change.

If no one matches all five main numbers and two Lucky Star numbers to win the jackpot, then it will roll to the next draw on Tuesday 5 July.

News of the mega-prize comes after another lottery player came forward to claim winnings of 1,158,038.

The ticket for the Saturday June 11 draw was bought in the Barnsley area of South Yorkshire.

A National Lottery spokesman said: "It would have been awful if the ticket-holder had missed out on this substantial and life-changing amount of money. We would like to remind all National Lottery players to check their tickets every time they play".

Two more 1million prizes have gone unclaimed from the draw on June 7, when 15 millionaires were created in the EuroMillions Millionaire Super Raffle.

One ticket was bought in Stockport, Cheshire, and the other in Cannock Chase, Staffs.

There is also another seven-figure prize outstanding for a winner who bought a ticket in Plymouth, Devon, in January.

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