DENIS and Mary Graham are celebrating after scooping £4.5m Lottery jackpot but their winnings pale in comparison to the UK’s biggest winners.
Colin and Chris Weir, above, became Europe’s biggest lotto winners in July 2011.
The couple, from Largs, in Ayrshire, won an incredible £161m.
They splashed out on a mansion and a fleet of posh cars.
More recently the couple donated £1m to the ‘Yes’ campaign in the Scottish referendum – proving that money can’t buy your everything.
In 2012, Nurse Gillian Bayford and husband Adrian, from Haverhill, Suffolk, won more than £148m.
Gillian was putting the kids to bed when her husband told her they had scooped a fortune. She calmly carried on before going downstairs to check their numbers.
“I was trying to tell her that we had won the lottery and she was telling me to keep the noise down,” he joked.
Dave Dawes, 47, a shift supervisor for Premier Foods, and Angela Dawes, 43, a volunteer for the British Heart Foundation, when they hit the jackpot in 2011.
The couple, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, also became the third biggest lottery winners in the UK with a £101m cash pile.
The pair lived in a one bedroom flat, but were looking to upgrade.
Their success meant they were £1m better off than David Bowie.
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