Britain’s biggest lottery winner was stunned into silence when she realised she had scooped 35 million pounds (app Rs 285.60 crores) with a single ticket. Postal worker Angela Kelly, 40, said she was still in shock after claiming the weekend jackpot that makes her one of the richest women in the country.

The mother of one, from East Kilbride near Glasgow, Scotland, only realised she had won three days after the draw when she checked her EuroMillions ticket at work. “I couldn’t really say anything,” she told a news conference in Airth. “I just pushed my chair back and put my head between my knees because I was so flabbergasted.”

She will leave the sorting office where she has worked for over 20 years next week. The jackpot’s weekly interest is worth the same as her 21,000 pounds annual salary.

Kelly automatically becomes one of the richest people in the country, overtaking soccer star Wayne Rooney and even Princes William and Harry on the Sunday Times Rich List. But despite her newfound wealth, she has no plans to go on a mammoth spending spree. She wants to move to a bigger house in the same area with her son John, 14, and buy a replacement Seat Ibiza after her last one was damaged in an accident.

Kelly said she plans to speak to her estranged husband Gerry about the jackpot win, but refused to say if he will get a share. The pair separated eight years ago but never divorced.

The winning numbers were: 23, 40, 42, 43, 49, plus 2 and 6. The amount dwarfs the previous biggest British EuroMillions win by Marion Richardson who netted 16.8 million in April 2004.

In the picture above, Kelly sprays champagne at a news conference at Airth on Wednesday. (Text & pic: Reuters)