A factory worker has become one of Britain's biggest ever lottery winners and has said the £71million prize "bloody will change me", vowing not to be be "one of these winners" who say everything will stay the same.

The winner of the EuroMillions jackpot is Ade Goodchild, from Hereford, National Lottery operator Camelot said.

Mr Goodchild, 58, has already quit his job and said: "I'm not one of these winners who is going to say this win won't change me.

"It bloody well will, or at least I'll give it a damn good go. There'll be no more shift work for me.

"I want to travel, find myself a lovely new home, go to top sporting events, and try many other things besides."

Mr Goodchild is the wealthiest singleton to go public, the National Lottery confirmed. He told of celebrating on Saturday by doing "what I was going to do anyway" and watching the Wales rugby union team clinch the Six Nations Grand Slam with his father.

He said: "(We had) slightly fancier beer than we would have, nice Italian beer, sent out for pizza and had some spicy wings - the sort of things millionaires do every Saturday."

Mr Goodchild, who has no children, added that watching Wales win had "felt more real than the lottery".