Couple from Scottish Borders named as £33million lottery winners

David and Carol Martin, a husband and wife from Hawick in the Scottish Borders, have won the lottery — David and Carol Martin, a husband and wife from Hawick in the Scottish Borders, celebrate winning half of the historic £66 million Lotto jackpot (Andrew Milligan / PA Wire)

David and Carol Martin, both 54, from Hawick in the Scottish Borders, are celebrating scooping the lottery prize money after matching six correct numbers in Saturday’s record draw.

The couple had been relaxing at home, “completely unaware” that the lottery ticket on their mantelpiece held the winning numbers until a visit from a friend who urged them to check it.

Mr Martin, who works for Borders Care and Repair which helps elderly and disabled fit equipment in their homes, said: “My mate Keith had popped over for a chat on Sunday morning when he mentioned that there had been two Lotto winners in the big rollover the night before.

“I hadn’t checked my ticket, so I removed it from the mantelpiece and thought I’d take a quick look but for some reason we couldn’t find the results in the paper.

“After Keith had left, Carol and I were tucking into bacon and black pudding rolls when we decided to check the ticket against the results on her phone.

“I had three lines, all Lucky Dip tickets, and as Carol called out the numbers, I realised that the first line matched up one by one. We must have checked it another ten times or more.

David and Carol Martin won the lottery (Andrew Milligan / PA Wire) — The lucky couple, David and Carol Martin (Andrew Milligan / PA Wire)

He added: “I’ve dreamt of this moment many times but when it actually came, it was a just total shock.

“We were both stunned into silence. We kept re-checking the numbers as we thought there must be a mistake.

“Then we called Camelot to see if it could possibly be true. The lady at the end of the phone was really nice and told us we were right, we were winners.

“All we could do was drink lots of hot tea and try and make sense of it all. The information just wasn’t going in.”

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The massive jackpot of just over £66 million was the result of 14 rollovers.

New rules stipulated that once the amount went over £50 million it would have been shared between the next tier down of winners if no one matched all six numbers.

The other ticket remains unclaimed.