EuroMillions: Winners of 61million jackpot initially thought they’d won 2.60 [Video]

Richard and Debbie Nuttall, both 54, from Colne, were announced as winners of the huge sum by the National Lottery on Wednesday lunchtime.

The couple were on a week-long holiday in Fuerteventura, celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary, when the news of their success emerged.

But Mr Nuttall, a self-employed accountant, said when he checked his account online he saw a win of £2.60.

He said: “So I went through to Debs and I said we’ve won £2.60 on the lottery and she was like: ‘Woohoo, we’ll go and have a bacon butty or something with that.”‘

But he later realised the £2.60 was from a win in November and when he logged in again later that day, after another email, he saw a figure of £61,708,231.

Mr Nuttall described how they had jumped up in and down in their car seats when they realised they had won, after “desperately” driving around the Canary islands searching …