A SOUTHAMPTON mother has scooped a massive £3.5 million on the national lottery, the Daily Echo can reveal today.

The winner, who wants to remain anonymous, has a partner and teenage daughter. She lives on the west side of the city.

The lucky mum's daughter told a friend on Saturday night just minutes after hearing the news that she was "over the moon''.

She added that she had been promised a new car and house by her mum, thought to be in her forties.

The winner, who is believed to have travelled to London to collect her winnings today, was one of two who shared the £7 million jackpot from Saturday.

The family have been described as "just a normal working class family''.

The lucky balls were numbers 7, 22, 31, 37, 38, and 40. It was the 502nd lottery draw and was made on the National Lottery Stars programme hosted by celebrity Dale Winton and starring singer Ricky Martin and pop group The Corrs.

The winning balls were picked by members of a winning syndicate from London, from the machine called Merlin, using set of balls Number Two

The two winners each won a whopping £3,552,263. The win comes just weeks after Hampshire was named as the country's unluckiest county.

Official Camelot figures show the county has notched up only five wins of more than £1 million since the lottery began.

Four of those wins involves syndicates, meaning only one Hampshire person has been made a lottery millionaire.

And in June this year someone in the Southampton area even failed to pick up their one million.

The prize, which was won in the New Year draw, was never claimed and is one of the biggest missed lottery wins ever.

The first national lottery draw was in November 1994 and by last year tickets worth £26 billion had been sold of which more than £10 billion was given in prizes.

The lottery has created 1,048 millionaires and good causes have received £10 billion too.

So far, there have been 103 winners who have scooped more than £3million.

Southampton lottery ticket sellers today spoke of their shock at the win.

Mukesh Patel, 42, owner Park Road News Market, said: ''I am very surprised but not jealous.

''It would have been nice if it had been sold here because it would have given me a nice sales boost, but it is nice for the city.'

And Walter McGuire, 49, owner of McGuire's in Foundry Lane, said: ''All my customers say they will see me right if they win it.

''Unfortunately I do not think it was one of them because nobody has given me anything yet. I'll just have to keep working.''