Biggest lottery winner to be unveiled

LONDON, Aug 15 (Reuters) Britain's biggest lottery winner will be unveiled today amid intense speculation over how he or she will spend the record 35,425,411.80 pounds jackpot.

The lucky ticket-holder has been named in newspapers as Royal Mail worker Angie Cunningham, 40, who lives in a modest flat with her teenage son in East Kilbride, near Glasgow.

She spent 1.50 pounds on a lucky dip ticket for Friday's EuroMillions game, a draw held across Europe, papers said.

Colleagues said she only realised she had won three days after the draw when she checked her ticket at work, according to the Daily Mirror.

''She didn't even jump up and down. She put on the kettle then popped to the loo,'' an unnamed workmate said.

The winner automatically becomes one of the richest people in the country, overtaking Wayne Rooney and even Princes William and Harry on the Sunday Times Rich List.

Lottery operator Camelot said the winner will attend a news conference later on Wednesday at a Scottish hotel.

Questions are bound to focus on how the jackpot will be spent. It would buy 70,000 cases of vintage Dom Perignon champagne for example or 150 top-of-the-range Rolls Royce Phantoms.

One report said Cunningham may leave Scotland for a new life in Italy.

The winner matched all five main numbers and both lucky star numbers, 23, 40, 42, 43, 49, plus 2 and 6 to claim the jackpot.

The amount dwarfs the previous biggest British EuroMillions win by Marion Richardson, from Gateshead, northeast England, who netted 16.8 million in April 2004.

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