Three people - including single mother - celebrate winning £30million on National Lottery

A single mother who lives in a council house and two best friends are celebrating after winning a total of £30million on the National Lottery.

Mother-of-four Bev Doran, of Shipley, West Yorkshire, said she “jumped out of bed” when she found out she had won Friday's £14.5 million EuroMillions jackpot.

And best friends Paula Barraclough, 45, and Lorraine Smith, 54, from Tyne and Wear, have also gone public after after scooping £7.6 million each in Saturday's Lotto draw.

The pair, who have been friends for 17 years and refer to each other as Polly and Lolly, won on a syndicate ticket.

Ms Doran, who is a carer for two of her children who have autism, says she is now going to buy a family home after she discovered she had won on Saturday morning.

The 37-year-old was checking messages on her phone in bed when she found an email from the National Lottery, prompting her to check her account online.

She said: "I was still waking up when I logged into my account. I could see the jackpot amount but couldn't work out what I'd won.

"Then I slowly realised it was one UK winner and that that person was me. It was taking a very long time to sink in.

"I jumped out of bed and burst into my eldest son's bedroom.

"He was asleep but I was shouting 'I've won the Euros. I'm a millionaire.' All he came back with was 'What you on about?'

"It was crazy, my head was spinning and nothing made any sense."

She added she immediately began looking for houses online, before going on a shopping spree and staying in a four-star hotel.

Meanwhile Care home cook Ms Smith, who lost her husband six years ago, only bought the Lucky Dip ticket from a local shop as she was waiting for her bus to work, which was running late.

The mother -of-one said: "The news really is still sinking in.

"I thought I was hallucinating - I just thought this cannot really be happening.

"It was only when I got on the phone to Camelot I realised my best friend and I really were multi-millionaires."

She plans first to buy a new frying pan with the money, after throwing hers away the day before she won.

Ms Barraclough said she learned of the win when her friend called her at 7.15am on Sunday morning.

The coffee shop worker, who lives with her parents, said: "I picked up the phone and said to her: 'You better be calling me to tell me we have won the lottery waking me up at this time.'

"And the voice on the other end of the phone replied: 'We have! We have all six numbers.'

"I just fell silent - I couldn't quite believe what I was hearing."

She said the win was "life-changing" and she hope to move into a house of her own.

Additional reporting by Press Association