A five member family syndicate have become the latest UK winners to land the EuroMillions jackpot, scooping a colossal £61,102,442.90 in the draw on Friday 29 July 2016.

Sonia Davis, and her daughters Steph and Courtney are very well known in Ross-on-Wye, as Sonia was the landlady of The New Inn pub, in St Owen’s Cross, Herefordshire, for many years. The ladies entered the EuroMillions as a syndicate, along with Keith Reynolds, Sonia’s partner, and Steph’s partner, Steve Powell.

Steph Davies (23), received a phone call one Friday night from Sonia (53). Sonia was in Florida, with Keith (55) for two important reasons – to see Keith’s daughter graduate and for Sonia to have surgery. Sonia called Steph to ask her to go and buy a lottery ticket, as she was feeling lucky.

Speaking to the National Lottery, Steph said: “I thought mum was mad calling me from holiday, but they were so insistent I knew we had to do it. My car was blocked in the drive by my boyfriend Steve’s, so to save time I made him drive me to buy a ticket, instead of moving mine.”

Sonia and Keith had initially tried to call her younger daughter, Courtney (19) to ask her to go and buy the ticket. She was travelling and wasn’t able to change her plans, so they instead called Stephanie. "Something told us we needed to get a ticket – and the rest is history," Sonia said.

Steph bought six Lucky Dips from the Overmonow Gargage, Cinderhill Street, in Monmouth but it wasn’t until the early hours of Sunday morning that she remembered to check the tickets.

Checking the numbers on her iPad, she realised they had all of them – and read that one UK ticket-holder had won the whole £61m.

Desperate to share the news, Stephanie called her mum who was now waiting to board her delayed fight home. Sonia said: “I was worried there was a problem. All I could hear was Steph sobbing down the phone and the odd muffled word. Then I heard Steve shouting ‘We’ve won £61m’!"

At 1:45am, Steph called Courtney who was in Reading with her boyfriend, Kieran (20). Answering the phone quickly because she thought something was wrong, Courtney said: “Steph just kept saying she didn’t know what to do. She then said we’d won the lottery. We were so in shock we weren’t actually talking to each other.”

Steph and Steve (30) didn’t know what to do with themselves. At 5:20am they could wait no longer, so they shared the news with other family members before calling Camelot to claim their prize.

With the win still sinking in, each member of the syndicate are starting to think about what they are going to do with their £12,220,488.58 share of the jackpot. Steph and Steve bought their first home together at Christmas, so they want to spend some time decorating it how they would like. Steph says she has been waiting eight months to finish her bathroom, so this will be high on her list, as well as a trip to the Caribbean.

Courtney is studying at the University of Southampton and has just finished the first year of a Psychology degree. She plans to complete her degree before deciding what to do next but has two items on her shopping list – an electric toothbrush, as she always wanted one but never felt she could justify spending £50 on one, and a new car to replace her VW Fox which has no air con and wind-up windows.

Sonia and Keith, who live near Ross-on-Wye are looking forward to sharing their win with family and friends, although Sonia would like a new oak carport for her property.