Spain's 'Fat One' Christmas lottery prizes start rolling out with a whopping £2.2billion to be shared – and lucky main winning number is revealed

Holders of tickets with the number 88008 are celebrating in Spain after winning the top prize in Spain’s huge Christmas lottery.

The immensely popular lottery El Gordo – ‘the fat one’ – distributed a total of 2.6 billion euro (£2.2 billion) in prizes this year, much of it in relatively small sums.

Holders of 20 euro (£17) tickets bearing the top prize number will receive 400,000 euro (£346,000) after tax.

Street and bar celebrations normally break out, with winners uncorking bottles of…