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Weir rich! Now we just need to make sure we’re happy …

IT is the scenario everyone dreams of: circling the numbers one by one as the balls roll out of Camelot's high-tech tombola machine until you realise that all the numbers on your ticket match the line-up on your television screen.

In seconds, your life has been changed forever.

That was the experience for retired Largs couple, Colin and Chris Weir, when they checked their EuroMillions ticket on Tuesday night to discover that one of their five lucky dip lines had made them the winners of Europe’s biggest ever lottery jackpot, in excess of £161.5 million.