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Thistle do nicely, says £161m lottery winner off to Barcelona

A RETIRED couple from Largs are "tickled pink" to have become Europe's biggest ever lottery winners with a jackpot of more than £161 million.

Colin and Chris Weir uncorked the champagne yesterday after they realised that they had won the record-breaking payout as they went to bed at around midnight on Tuesday.

The couple -- who live in a three-bedroom detached house in the Ayrshire seaside town -- yesterday claimed that they checked their ticket four or five times each before finally accepting that they had won.