White van man celebrates £56m lotto win with bacon roll at supermarket

CHAMPAGNE and caviare may be the favoured meal of lottery winners, but for Nigel Page, who scooped a £56million share of the EuroMillions jackpot, it had to be a bacon butty.

• Nigel Page and Justine Laycock celebrate Britain's biggest lottery win

Britain's biggest ever lottery winner, who yesterday described himself as a "white van man", albeit one who can now afford a fleet of Bentleys, said he and his family toasted their new found wealth with mugs of tea and bacon rolls in his local supermarket caf.

Yesterday Mr Page, 43, a property maintenance man, and his partner, Justine Laycock, 41, an estate agent, who live near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, in a three-bedroom semi, said they both planned to give up their jobs.

The interest on their winnings will be 2.8m per year, 54,000 per week or the equivalent of 320 per hour. But from his manner Mr Page made it clear that his feet would remain firmly on the ground and in his native Gloucestershire, if not for much longer in the family's current home.

Mr Page, who runs his own business, said: "I'm a white van man, so I'm going to treat myself to a new car. I haven't had a car to myself for ten years. The finance is due to run out on the van. I'll probably go a little more upmarket now. A BMW X5 or a Range Rover – just to get the kids and the dog in."

Mr Page said he had initially struggled to believe he had hit the jackpot when he checked his ticket on Saturday morning. He said on logging on to his computer, he had been greeted with a message informing him of his good fortune.

"My daughter was sat next to me as well and she was bemused and didn't really know what to make of it. We just looked at it for a couple of seconds," he said.

He said he had to go and upstairs to raise his partner and ask her to doublecheck the results. "I got up," Ms Laycock said. "He said it was important. He had lost his voice, he couldn't speak."

On checking the numbers herself, she added: "I went in and went: 'Oh my God'."

Recalling their modest celebrations after the news on Saturday Ms Laycock said: "Camelot told us an adviser was on their way so while we waited we decided to go out and have some breakfast together as a family. It sounds bizarre, but we felt very calm."

Ms Laycock went on: "It's so strange, as I'd been out the night before with friends and I'd bought a ticket as well. We'd been talking about what we thought would happen if you won.

"I joked that the machine would explode, smoke would come out from it with ticker tape and glitter, and six gold-painted Egyptian men would come out and carry me off. It was slightly different!"

Ms Laycock said the couple were "so proud" of their children – Mr Page's daughter Ella, 12, and her son and daughter, Jacob, 11, and Georgia, 15 – who had remained "very level-headed" about the win and had "not asked for much". She said Georgia had reacted like a "typical teenager", saying "Whatever" when she heard the news.

Ms Laycock added: "We couldn't have wished for this. It's amazing. We are going to utilise this 100 per cent. We have family and friends who are very close and we are going to sort them out."

The couple are also considering giving some money to charity, and may make a donation to the children's school. As for her own dreams she said: "I'd love a house where I can open the back door and just chuck the ball to the dog and just run and run."

Her boss was "devastated" when she told him the news that she was leaving the estate agent's office in Cirencester. But as for the Cotswolds town itself, the family have no plans to uproot and move somewhere warmer. She said: "We love Cirencester. The people there are amazing."

Mr Page added: "Perhaps we'll just jet out somewhere into the sunset, go somewhere warm for a week or so."

Ms Page interrupted: "It's not half-term yet!"