Dave and Angela Dawes

Dave Dawes, a 47-year-old shift supervisor at a Premier Foods factory, and his partner Angela, 43, a British Heart Foundation volunteer, won £101,203,600.70 in the EuroMillions draw of Friday 7 October 2011 — then Britain's third-largest lottery prize. They were living in a one-bedroom flat in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and had played EuroMillions only twice before. Dave said they were watching television when the draw show came on: "We got our tickets out and watched in shock as, one by one, the numbers came up on the line I'd chosen." At the press conference they left by helicopter, the couple said they had drawn up a list of 15 to 20 friends and relatives they intended to make millionaires by giving £1 million each, and that they would buy property in London and abroad and start their own charity. In 2013 they were reported to have separated over how to spend the money — Dave moving to a £3.5 million Chelsea penthouse while Angela stayed at their Surrey home — and later reconciled. In 2017 a court ruled that Dave was not obliged to keep financially supporting his son Michael, then 32.

The most recent documented event is a burglary in May 2020, when intruders bound the couple with cable ties at their £4 million Grade II-listed home, once owned by Tom Jones, and took £20,000 in cash, jewellery and a Range Rover; three men were arrested but the case was dropped for insufficient evidence. Local retrospectives record that the couple reconciled after their 2013 separation. No later public update is documented as of 2026.