Husband and wife David and Carol martin have been revealed as the couple who who have won an eye-watering £33million in Saturday's massive Lottery roll over draw.
The couple, from the Scottish Borders, bought their ticket in Morrisons supermarket and only found out they had won on Sunday when they checked their numbers.
They do plan on giving up work and the first thing on their shopping list is a holiday "somewhere hot".
The couple, who have been married for 28 years, are planning to retire as soon as possible and said they would love a new home in the country, local to where they live now, and a holiday home in the sun.
Mr Martin said: “It’s everyone’s dream to win the lottery. I’ve talked about winning and what I would do so many times. But now it’s actually here my mind’s gone blank.
“We don’t have all the answers yet but we’d like to help our closest friends and family, and there are charities which are important to us too.
“Parts of our community have also been hit by flooding and we know lots of people who have struggled in recent times, so there’s a lot for us to work out but it’s a nice problem to have.”
Mr Martin described the moment the couple told their 26-year-old daughter Lisa, who lives in Australia.
He said: “We caught Lisa on the telephone as she was driving to work and told her to pull over.
“She thought something bad had happened as we normally only Skype or WhatsApp her to keep the costs down. So, when we telephoned she was really worried.
“Then we told her we’ve just won 68 million in Australian dollars. She couldn’t believe it and thought we were pulling her leg.”
The family have not been together for more than a year but the couple have offered to pay the plane fare home as soon as Lisa can arrange it.
The family said they hoped to be reunited at the weekend so that they can begin planning their futures.
Mrs Martin, who works in a local chemist, said: “Lisa loves it out in Australia and has been trying to gain residency over there.
“She’s been in Australia for more than five years and we last saw her at Christmas 2014. We can’t wait to see her again. With all this going on, it doesn’t seem right not to be together.”
The couple had been relaxing at home, “completely unaware” that the Lotto 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.
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.”
The couple say the first person they told was their daughter, who is currently in Australia.
After being asked what is the first thing they would buy, they said it would be a first-class ticket for their daughter to come home.
The happy couple say they have been calling in sick to work since winning.
However, they spoke to their employers this morning and told them of the win.
UK Mirror
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