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Britainâ€™s biggest lottery winners revealed

15 February 2010 13:58 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA-Economics. A couple were tonight confirmed as the winners of Britain’s biggest-ever lottery prize of Â£56 million, mirror.co.uk reports.

The pair, from near Cirencester, Gloucester, will be formally unveiled at a press conference in Bath tomorrow, Camelot revealed.

The winning ticket shares Friday night’s overall jackpot of Â£113 million with one other which was bought in Spain.

The jackpot surpassed the Â£91 million paid out in November last year which was shared between two UK tickets.

Based on figures released when the Sunday Times Rich list was published last April, they will be wealthier than Oasis stars Noel and Liam Gallagher (Â£52 million), film director Guy Ritchie (Â£50 million) and actor Sir Michael Caine (Â£45 million).

The lucky numbers are - 05, 45, 01, 38 and 18. The Lucky Star numbers are 6 and 4, and another UK millionaire won the Raffle Selection matching ZHR 111871.

The Â£56 million jackpot pushes Les Scadding and wife Sam from south Wales and the Lucky Seven syndicate from Liverpool, who both banked a cheque for Â£45.5 million in November, into joint second place on the National Lottery’s Rich List.