£161m Euromillions winner claims prize.

The UK winner of the £161m Euromillions jackpot has claimed their prize, lottery operator Camelot has confirmed.

It is not yet known if the ticket holder is an individual or syndicate - or whether they will go public.
If the winner is a single player, they would instantly be placed 430th in this year's Sunday Times Rich List.
Tuesday's £161,653,000 prize was Europe's biggest-ever and was capped after a series of rollovers. It follows a £113m UK Euromillions win in October.
The lucky winner of the £161m prize, who is said to be deciding whether or not to reveal their identity, successfully matched all five main numbers and both Lucky Stars.
The numbers were 17, 19, 38, 42 and 45, and the Lucky Stars were 9 and 10.
And two other UK-based lottery players won £1.7m after they successfully matched five numbers and one Lucky Star.
If the winner is a single player, he or she would instantly be placed 430th in this year's Sunday Times Rich List just above Scottish businessman Sir Angus Grossart and Irina Abramovich, the former wife of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
UK winning streak
Before Tuesday's draw, the largest lottery winner in the UK was the player who claimed £113m in the EuroMillions last October and chose to remain anonymous.
Britons have banked the EuroMillions jackpot more than 14 times in the last two years.
Last year, two anonymous UK winners scooped £113m and £84m in the draw.
And Nigel and Justine Page, from Gloucestershire, won the £56m jackpot prize on EuroMillions in February 2010.
National Lottery operator Camelot runs the EuroMillions draw in the UK and has also had the same role for the weekly Lotto draw since it was launched in 1994.
The firm says that its draws have created about 2,400 lottery millionaires in the UK in the intervening 17 years.

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