Winners celebrate the lottery's 10th anniversary

The 24 winners, who shared in £33.6m, enjoyed a slice of birthday cake and a glass of champagne at House for an Art Lover in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park.

As part of the celebrations, 177 balloons were released, one for each millionaire created in Scotland.

The most recent winners, George and Terri Ross from East Kilbride who won £5.3m three weeks ago, were present.

Members of four syndicates and eight individual jackpot winners from the past decade travelled from all over Scotland to celebrate the milestone.

Margaret Wiseman, 64, from Shetland, who travelled the furthest to join in the celebrations, said: "It's great. It's really nice to meet up with some of the other winners and share our experiences."

The retired shop assistant, who scooped £2m in August 1999, added: "It hasn't really changed my life, but I have nothing to worry about financially.

The next thing we're going to do is some serious cruising. The Caribbean is the first stop Millionaire Tommy Webb from Greenock

"I gave my job up the very next day. I still can't believe it sometimes. I never thought it would happen to me."

Husband and wife, Tommy and Margaret Webb, from Greenock, said their £1.7m win in May 2000 had also enabled them to retire early.

"It's changed our life quite a bit," said Mrs Webb, a 54-year-old former Littlewoods worker.

"We've just bought a house and we've also bought cars, jewellery, helped our families out and given to charity," she added flashing a diamond-clad finger.

Mr Webb, who used to work as a maintenance engineer at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, said the couple's next expenditure would be a luxury holiday or two.

He said: "The next thing we're going to do is some serious cruising. The Caribbean is the first stop."

Birthday celebrations

But the 53-year-old added the win had also had its downside: "Some people we knew before don't want to know us anymore. That's what happens."

Bob and Anne Westland, from Alloa, walked away with a £3.7m fortune eight months after the first ever Lotto draw.

The total paid out in prizes of more than £50,000 has reached £772.3m.

Camelot, the operator of the National Lottery, is staging the first National Lottery Day on 6 November - the pinnacle of the birthday celebrations.

It will also stage a £10m jackpot-only draw, into which everyone who buys a ticket for the Lotto draw that day will be entered.

Spokeswoman Jacquie Wilson said: "The special 10th birthday draw is a way the National Lottery can really say thank you to players for helping to raise the incredible sum of more than £16bn for good causes.