Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/15/lottery-winners-56m-prize
A smiling, slightly awkward, but inescapably normal West Country
couple sat perched on a pair of golden thrones in the damp grounds of a
Bath hotel this afternoon, clutching an enormous oblong of paper on
which were inscribed 13 small but life-changing words.
Neither
Nigel Page nor his partner, Justine Laycock, needed to look at the
piece of paper they were holding up for the cameras. They both knew
what it said: "Fifty-six million, eight thousand, one hundred and
thirteen pounds and twenty pence."
Whatever shrieks and whoops
the couple and their children may have emitted on Saturday morning when
they discovered they had become the UK's biggest ever lottery winners
had long since fallen silent and the only extraordinary thing about
Page and Laycock as they emerged from anonymity to meet the press, sip
reasonably priced bubbly and pose before the obligatory red Ferrari
was how extraordinarily ordinary they seemed.
Saturday morning,
Page explained, had begun as it usually did. He had gone down for
breakfast leaving Laycock to doze on. Then, as he and his daughter were
eating, the news came on and he learned that the £112m EuroMillions
jackpot was to be shared between a ticket bought in Spain and one
bought in the UK.