The couple who scooped £45.5 million in the Euromillions jackpot have told how they celebrated with a traditional Sunday lunch washed down with a couple of bottles of champagne at their local restaurant.

Les Scadding, 58, and his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding, 38, from Caerleon, south Wales, could hardly believe their luck and had to double check their winning ticket.

Mr Scadding said: "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.

"I thought I might have won around £50,000 and I rushed home to tell Samantha."

After frantic double checking online, he said: "It was a very funny couple of minutes. We just looked at each other while it sunk in before we got on the phone to Camelot."

They are thought to be the seventh set of lottery millionaires to come from Gwent in the last three years.

A group of IT workers from Liverpool were also celebrating their share of Friday's night whopping £91 million jackpot.

The workers were unaware of their staggering win when they turned up for their shift at BT's Royal House centre in Wood Street on Monday.

A company source said: "The lucky people do work in our Wood Street centre in Liverpool. They are employed by Hewlett Packard or by Manpower to do internal IT work, computer support. Some of them went to work not actually knowing anything about it. Someone from Camelot turned up and whisked them away."

Their ticket will bestow upon them wealth at the level of celebrities such as DJ Chris Evans, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and film star Sir Michael Caine, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.