Lucky baker wins lottery dough

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Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Thursday December 23, 2004
The Guardian

The winning tickets came from a place called "Luck" and that is what they brought a small southern Spanish village, which yesterday discovered it had won £100m in the world's largest lottery.

Beas de Segura, a village of 8,000 inhabitants in the poor region of Jaen, triumphed in the annual El Gordo lottery thanks to the local baker, who bought a half-share in the winning number and sold it on to friends, family and neighbours in smaller fractions.

The baker, Juan Antonio Herrera, had bought his share of the ticket from what has become Spain's most popular official lottery shop, "The Golden Witch" in the small north-western village of Sort, whose name means "luck" in Catalan.

The main square at Beas de Segura, whose inhabitants live off the olive groves that surround the village, filled up with joyous, dancing farmers as they celebrated their good fortune.
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