Spaniards celebrate their lotto Luck

A TOWN called Luck lived up to its name yesterday, turning up the winning ticket in Spain’s Christmas lottery, one of the world’s biggest prizes known as El Gordo (The Fat One).

The ticket which scooped a prize of €390 million was sold at a lottery office called The Golden Witch (La Bruixa D’Or) in the town of Sort, which in the Catalan language means luck.

Each ticket can be divided into a maximum of 1,950 segments, although those can then be shared again in cartels in which whole villages may take part.