Britain's biggest ever lottery jackpot winners are now a staggering £184m better off and richer than Adele after scooping the EuroMillions jackpot.
Gloucester couple Joe and Jess Thwaite were revealed as the lucky winners yesterday (Thursday), thanks to a £2.50 lucky dip. Here on Merseyside, a 2016 study showed 14 people with a Liverpool postcode had been turned into millionaires over the previous two years - making it one of the luckiest places in the UK to play the lottery.
Here are 10 jackpot winners from Merseyside for whom this fantasy became a reality:
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Ben Woods
Ben Woods, from Rock Ferry, scooped £2,485,736, with a lucky dip ticket his mum bought him in 2004 aged just 23.
After a few years spent travelling abroad, the former Merseyrail worker settled down "to a normal life" just three miles up the road from his family home.
The Magnificent Seven
In 2009, a seven-person syndicate scooped £45,570,835.50.
The winners, dubbed the Magnificent Seven, all worked for Hewlett Packard carrying out IT work at a BT office in Liverpool.
The syndicate included John Walsh, 57, James Bennett, 28, Sean Connor, 32, Alex Parry, 19, Emma Cartwright, 23, Ceri Scullion, 35 and Donna Rhodes, 39, who pocketed £6.5 million each.
Mr A
A Mystery Lotto winner, known only as Mr A from Merseyside, became a millionaire without ever touching a ticket. The lucky winner was one of two jackpot winners in the draw and banked a staggering £1,942,659.
Tony Dodd
Tony Dodd from Wirral won the £2.4m Lotto jackpot when he was 67 year's old. He celebrated by getting a knee replacement operation.
George and Beryl Keates
George and Beryl Keates from Southport has scooped a National Lottery jackpot of more than £3.5m on their 10th attempt at the lucky draw back in 2012.
Kirkby workers
A group of ten A4e workers in Kirkby scooped £28m between them in a EuroMillions draw in July 2013.
Bosses then had to frantically try and find replacements afterwards as they all quit their jobs immediately.
Brian McTigue
Brian McTigue from West Derby was left stunned when he collected more than £2.8m in the National Lottery draw in 2013.
David Ashcroft
Mossley Hill carpenter David Ashcroft is the region’s biggest winner, having scooped a £12.3m jackpot back in 1997.
Freddy Powell
Freddy Powell, from Crosby, was the first winner from Merseyside when he scooped £1.35m in April 1995.
Mark English
In April 1996, Mark English from West Derby won £4.2m. He gave up his jobs as a part-time steward at Liverpool FC and factory worker at Stoves in Prescot.
