The search is one for Britain's newest EuroMillions winner, who scooped a record-breaking £56millionThe hunt began last night for a lucky British lottery winner who has scooped a record-breaking £56million.
The winning ticket bought somewhere in the UK shares the £113million EuroMillions jackpot with another in Spain.
Last night people across the country were checking their tickets to see if they had the winning numbers of 5, 45, 1, 38 and 18, with the Lucky Star numbers of 6 and 4.
It smashes the previous record won by a Welsh couple and a syndicate of seven people from Liverpool who each received £45.5million in November last year.
The jackpot is the second-largest EuroMillions draw - which is also played by tens of millions of people across the continent.
Organisers said they did not know where in the country the ticket was bought, whether it was purchased by a single person or part of a syndicate.
Computer searches are due to be carried out today to find out who the winner is and which shop sold the winning ticket.
A National Lottery spokesman last night appealed for the owner of the winning ticket to contact officials so they could receive their massive prize.
She added: 'It's very exciting, we don't know who the person is at the moment or where they are from.
'This is fantastic news - we're absolutely delighted to have such a massive UK win, which shared tonight's mega jackpot with a player in Spain.
'This is the biggest win since Les and Sam Scadding and the Magnificent Seven syndicate each won £45.5m in November 2009.
'Subject to validation the prize could be paid out when the banks are open on Monday.'
Cheers: Britain's last EuroMillions winners Les and Samantha Scadding won £45.5million in NovemberThe jackpot is just below breaking the European record set by a single ticket on the Italian SuperEnalotto game which banked £128.3 million (on August 22 last year.
Welsh couple Les and Sam Scadding held the previous British record along with a seven-strong syndicate from a BT call centre in Liverpool after they both banked £45.5million.
Mr Scadding who has three grown up children from a previous marriage, revealed he celebrated the win by ordering a couple of bottles of champagne from his local pub.
At the time the 58-year-old old grandfather, from Caerleon, near Newport, South Wales, said he was lucky enough anyway just to be alive after beating testicular cancer five years ago.
Mr Scadding and his wife - a 38-year-old, privately educated businesswoman - said that they had no they have no idea how to spend the Euromillions jackpot cheque for £45,570,835.50
Les also revealed he'd been overdrawn at the bank when he bought the winning ticket.
Answering critics who asked him if his prize money was too much for one family, he replied: 'Just think that you're the person who has won the £45million.
'Then tell me you think it's too much.'
It later emerged that his children only found out their dad had become a millionaire after hearing his name on the radio.
Angela Kelly, from Glasgow, won £35.4 million on EuroMillions in August 2007.
Nine countries currently play EuroMillions. They are the UK, France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, Portugal and Switzerland.
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