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November 11, 2009, Wednesday
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SEVEN call center workers who will share Britain's biggest lottery prize with a couple from south Wales said yesterday they have already told their bosses they are leaving.
The seven, who worked for computer company Hewlett Packard in Liverpool, won 45.5 million pounds (US$20.6 million) in a syndicate they formed only four months ago.
The winners said they worked out it would have taken 150 years for their combined wages to match that sum.
"We have all handed in our notice," said James Bennett, one of the members of the group, who will each pocket 6.5 million pounds.
Syndicate leader John Walsh, 57, said he found out they had won at 3am on Sunday morning when he checked the EuroMillions numbers on Teletext after he couldn't sleep.
"I had to wake my wife, son and daughter so that they could double-check I was not dreaming," he said.
Walsh rang other members of the group to say they had "won a few thousand pounds," before he went into the office and revealed the true amount.
Houses, cars and holiday homes topped their shopping lists.
However, the youngest winner, Alex Parry, 19, said she now hopes to go to university to study business. "I never wanted to go to uni because I didn't want all the debts afterwards, so now I think I might go," she said.
Lottery operator Camelot said the 91 million pounds jackpot was Britain's biggest ever lottery payout.
It will be shared with unemployed mechanic Les Scadding, 53, and his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding, 38.
The seven, who worked for computer company Hewlett Packard in Liverpool, won 45.5 million pounds (US$20.6 million) in a syndicate they formed only four months ago.
The winners said they worked out it would have taken 150 years for their combined wages to match that sum.
"We have all handed in our notice," said James Bennett, one of the members of the group, who will each pocket 6.5 million pounds.
Syndicate leader John Walsh, 57, said he found out they had won at 3am on Sunday morning when he checked the EuroMillions numbers on Teletext after he couldn't sleep.
"I had to wake my wife, son and daughter so that they could double-check I was not dreaming," he said.
Walsh rang other members of the group to say they had "won a few thousand pounds," before he went into the office and revealed the true amount.
Houses, cars and holiday homes topped their shopping lists.
However, the youngest winner, Alex Parry, 19, said she now hopes to go to university to study business. "I never wanted to go to uni because I didn't want all the debts afterwards, so now I think I might go," she said.
Lottery operator Camelot said the 91 million pounds jackpot was Britain's biggest ever lottery payout.
It will be shared with unemployed mechanic Les Scadding, 53, and his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding, 38.
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