Euromillions jackpot won for fourth time in UK in 2012
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A ticket-holder has become the fourth person this year in the UK to strike it rich on Euromillions, but they have yet to claim Friday's 拢22.1m prize.
The person hit the jackpot with the numbers 5, 6, 11, 30, 44 and matched the lucky star numbers 2 and 6.
Euromillions UK operator Camelot said: "It's amazing to have another big winner here in the UK - we've been extremely lucky in recent years."
The most recent prize was just a week ago when a ticket-holder scooped 拢46m.
Last month Cassey Carrington and Matt Topham, both 22 and from Stapleford, Nottingham, won 拢45.2m and in January, Gareth, 40, and Catherine Bull, 35, from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, won 拢40.6m.
David and Angela Dawes, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, won 拢101m last October.
The UK's biggest Euromillions prize was a 拢161m jackpot won by Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs, Ayrshire, in July 2011.
Nine countries - the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria - participate in Euromillions, with ticket sales from all of them going into the jackpot fund.
Camelot said that as well as the chance to win "life-changing" prizes, Euromillions players had helped raise more than 拢27bn for National Lottery Good Causes, which benefit communities across the UK.
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