When a lot of money cannot even buy a little happiness

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Many people would want their wish to be that they are single when they win a jackpot lottery of let’s just say a million shillings. Sudden money as they say brings a lot out of people or it brings out the real person out of people.

Well for this couple they did not just split up the millions of Euros they won but also their marriage.

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A couple who won £161 million in the lottery, the largest ever prize claimed in Britain, have announced their intention ‘to divorce amicably’. Chris and Colin Weir, who scooped the Euro Millions prize in 2011, also confirmed in a statement they had been living apart ‘for some time’.

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The couple from Largs, Ayrshire, have been married for more than 30 years and have two grown-up children.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Daniel Gilfeather/REX/Shutterstock (1383304v) Colin and Chris Weir at the MacDonald Inchyra Grange Hotel ?161m EuroMillions lottery winners press conference, Falkirk, Scotland, Britain - 15 Jul 2011 Euro Lottery winners Chris Weir, 55, and her husband Colin Weir, 64, at the press conference at the Macdonald Inchyra Grange Hotel near Falkirk to talk of their GBP 161, 653,000 record-breaking jackpot win.

A statement issued to The Scottish Sun said: ‘It is with deep regret that Chris and Colin confirm they have been living apart for some time and intend to divorce amicably.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Daniel Gilfeather/REX/Shutterstock (1383304p) Colin and Chris Weir at the MacDonald Inchyra Grange Hotel ?161m EuroMillions lottery winners press conference, Falkirk, Scotland, Britain - 15 Jul 2011 Euro Lottery winners Chris Weir, 55, and her husband Colin Weir, 64, at the press conference at the Macdonald Inchyra Grange Hotel near Falkirk to talk of their GBP 161, 653,000 record-breaking jackpot win.

‘There will be no further comment.’ Colin, a former TV cameraman, and Chris, a former psychiatric nurse, made the Sunday Times Rich List with their win eight years ago. The pair set up The Weir Charitable Trust in 2013 and made a donation to a community football club in their local Largs.

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Partick Thistle Football Club also received investment from the couple which led to the youth set-up being rebranded the Thistle Weir Youth Academy and a section of their Firhill Stadium being named the Colin Weir Stand.

Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs in Ayrshire, celebrate during a photo call at the Macdonald Inchyra Hotel & Spa in Falkirk, after they scooped 161 million in Tuesday's EuroMillions draw.

They also defended making a donation of £1 million to the independence campaign ahead of the 2014 referendum, and continued donating to the SNP afterwards.

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