An unemployed mechanic who scooped the UK's biggest ever lottery jackpot has said he is lucky to be alive after beating testicular cancer.
Les Scadding believes it was fate that he scooped a £45,570,835.50 windfall after surviving a health scare several years ago.
The 58-year-old from south Wales said he had forgotten the lottery card with his regular numbers on for the Euromillions draw - so opted for two lucky dips.
Mr Scadding, who lives in Caerleon, near Newport, South Wales, with his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding, 38, said they had not slept since checking the numbers online on Saturday.
The jackpot win has not come as a complete surprise to Mr Scadding however as he always believed he would one day win the lottery.
"It is a funny thing with my family but for the last 12 years I have always said I'm going to win the lottery," said Mr Scadding, who has three grown-up children from his first marriage. "My family all laughed at me. My daughter, who lives in Abu Dhabi, always asked 'Have you won the lottery?' and I would say next time."
Meanwhile, a group of office workers dubbed the Magnificent Seven were celebrating after winning their share of the prize.
The syndicate, all based in Merseyside, scooped £45,570,835.50 in Friday's Euromillions draw, which had a whopping jackpot total of £91 million.
The winners, who all work for Hewlett Packard carrying out IT work at a BT office in Liverpool, only formed their syndicate - called the Magnificent Seven - four months ago. 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 £6.5 million.
Syndicate leader Mr 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, son and daughter so they could double check I wasn't dreaming."
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