as one winning ticket took the first prize of a record-breaking tax free £161 million lottery jackpot, a National Lottery spokesman said: ‘this is amazing news, we are absolutely delighted that a UK ticket holder has scooped the entire €185million jackpot, which at the current exchange rate is a massive £161 million, the exact amount to be claimed by the winner is £161,653,000 while two other UK-based lottery players won £1.7 million after matching five numbers and one Lucky Star,'
to put the win into perspective, the top prize would earn £9,323 per day in interest, which equates to £3.4 million per year, if £161 million was stacked in £50 notes, it would be almost 365 metres tall - almost four times the height of Big Ben, last night’s providential numbers were 19, 17, 42, 45, 38 and the Lucky Stars were 09 and 10, the winner would be wealthier than Beatles legend Ringo Starr, who has a £150million fortune, Welsh singer Tom Jones, worth £140million, and nearly as well off as the Beckhams, who are worth £165million, please some one in the UK tell me they bought a ticket for me and it was mine! I would give you the bus fare to pick the winnings up for me, really.
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