YESTERDAY it was revealed that a builder had scooped the £105 million EuroMillions jackpot.

Steve Thomson is the ninth-biggest winner in the history of the National Lottery, securing a life-changing amount of money for his young family from Selsey.

The 42-year-old and his wife Lenka, who have three school-age children, said they are still gobsmacked by their prize, which was only discovered while Mr Thomson waited to be picked up for work three days after the draw was made.

But the couple are not the first Sussex residents to have won an eye-watering sum in the National Lottery.

In 1999 Seaford resident Sam Lange walked away with a life-changing £1,575,878.

Sam lives with her partner Malcolm and has three children as well as a stepson. 

She said: “When I won the Lottery, I had been saving £50 a week to go and see my dad in New Zealand after spending four years apart. 

“We were raising my partner’s son and I was working weekends while Malcolm worked shifts. 

“We were suddenly able to visit dad for a month and take him to places he’d never dreamed – like flying up a mountain and swimming with dolphins. 

“It was a £5,000 trip but worth every penny.”

 But, despite her new-found riches, Sam and her family did not feel the need to splash the cash on a new home, instead choosing to expand their existing house in Seaford.

However, she did admit the family had bought a holiday home abroad.

She said: “We stayed in the same house, built an extension and had three children of our own. 

“We also bought a holiday home in France which has given us many happy family holidays together. 

“I was able to give up work, and devote myself to being a mum.”