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First of two winners comes forward to claim record Lotto jackpot

One of two winning ticket-holders for Saturday night's historic Lotto has come forward to claim their share of the £66 million jackpot, Camelot has confirmed.

The two winners, who both matched six winning numbers, will take home £33 million each.

The winning Lotto numbers were: 58, 47, 27, 46, 52, 26 and the bonus number was 48.

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'Unprecedented' demand jams National Lottery website

This message was posted on the Lottery website. Credit: National Lottery

"Unprecedented demand" for tonight's record Lotto jackpot is to blame for the sluggish performance on the National Lottery website, operator Camelot has said.

With the Lotto jackpot now standing at nearly £60 million, there are fears the website could again struggle with the surge in demand, as last-minute rush to buy tickets had crashed the lotto website ahead of the previous draw - which had no winners.

A Camelot spokesman said: "As you can appreciate, we're seeing unprecedented demand for tickets for tonight's record-breaking Lotto draw. Tickets can also be bought at any of our 37,000 retail outlets up until 7.30pm, so there's still plenty of time for people to do that."

Meanwhile Barclays' Pingit app, which has a built-in function to purchase National Lottery tickets, has also been affected by Lotto website's outage.

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