A lucky Euromillones ticket holder in Malaga is €1 million richer after Friday’s draw, with the winning El Millón ticket sold at a lottery administration inside Carrefour Alameda.

Administration No. 67 in Malaga capital validated the winning ticket for Spain’s separate El Millón prize, giving one player a seven-figure windfall from the draw held on Friday, October 2.

Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, the state organization responsible for licensing lotteries in Spain, confirmed the winning El Millón code as GKH34441. Unlike the main Euromillones jackpot, El Millón is a separate €1 million prize available exclusively to tickets played in Spain.

Malaga win comes as well as €28.8 million jackpot

Friday’s draw also produced a major jackpot winner in Spain, although that prize went to Cantabria rather than Malaga. A single ticket matched all five main numbers and both Lucky Stars to claim €28,871,634. The winning ticket was validated at Receptor No. 69,930 on El Sol, 11, in Cabezón de la Sal, Cantabria. Malaga’s winner did not need to match the main Euromillones combination to claim the El Millón prize.

Check the winning Euromillones numbers

Friday’s main combination was: 07 – 08 – 10 – 22 – 35 with lucky Stars: 02 and 10 The official Euromillones results from Loterías y Apuestas del Estado confirm one first-category winner and one El Millón winner in the draw.

Spain’s official lottery results also show European ticket sales of €47,486,533.60 for Friday’s draw.

Next Euromillones jackpot

Following the Cantabria jackpot win, the next Euromillones draw starts again with a guaranteed first-category fund of €17 million.

For Spanish players, every qualifying Euromillones entry also provides a chance to win El Millón, meaning another €1 million prize will be up for grabs when the game returns.

Malaga has seen several recent Euromillones wins in Malaga province, including another €1 million El Millón ticket sold in the city in December 2025 again.

Adrenaline will fill your Saturday night out in Torremolinos on October 10, leaving you on your feet and cheering along with a roaring crowd.

What is coming to town?

Temerario Fight Warriors is making its debut with TFW 1, an evening of ten mixed martial arts (MMA) bouts. Two are professional contests and eight are amateur. “Temerario”, Spanish for daring or reckless, gives you a fair idea of the spirit of the event. MMA is the full-contact sport that combines striking, wrestling and grappling inside a cage in front of a live audience.

TFW 1 is the first major professional MMA event in Torremolinos. Combat sports are no strangers to the venue, though. Mix Combat Series 2 took place there in March, with boxing, Muay Thai, kickboxing, and MMA all part of the line up.

A completely different night out

Live MMA feels very different from watching on a screen. You hear every bit of contact, see the sweat, feel the crowd react to each exchange and can cheer on fighters who are building their careers, ideal if you fancy a change from the usual restaurant routine, and it makes a great outing for a group of friends or neighbours.

Palacio San Miguel is the venue for the evening of thrilling sport with doors opening at 5:30pm. Tickets start from €24.90 for general admission, which covers all ten bouts, with many other options available. There are also food and drink packages, VIP tables and group options worth checking out if you really want to make a full evening of it.

The Temerario Fight Warriors website has the full line up of fighters, all the ticket choices and an abundance of other information on the evening.

So if you fancy switching up your routine, head to the website and book your tickets for a night of MMA brilliance.

Gibraltar has delivered a hefty shock to tobacco shoppers, with minimum prices rising by as much as 46 per cent and potentially changing the economics of the traditional cross-border shopping trip.

The latest Gibraltar Gazette has introduced new minimum retail prices for packets of 20 cigarettes, with increases ranging from 23 per cent to 46 per cent depending on the category. The changes came into effect on October 1. The biggest jump is for Mid-High cigarettes, where the minimum price has risen from £3.20 to £4.68 per packet, an increase of more than 46 per cent. Premium cigarettes have gone from £4.20 to £5.44, a 29.5 per cent increase. Mid-Ordinary cigarettes have risen from £3 to £3.69, while Ordinary cigarettes have increased from £2.70 to £3.35. The figures were reported by GBC and are set out in Gibraltar’s latest tobacco legislation.

Gibraltar’s cheap tobacco advantage takes a hit

The increases could prove particularly important for shoppers from Spain, as cheap tobacco has traditionally been one of the reasons people make the journey across the border to Gibraltar.

A packet that previously cost a minimum of £2.70 in the cheapest category now costs £3.35. At the other end of the scale, the minimum for Premium cigarettes has jumped by £1.24 per packet.

That does not mean every packet sold in Gibraltar will suddenly cost these exact amounts. The figures are minimum retail prices, meaning shops cannot sell cigarettes in the relevant categories below the amounts set by the Gibraltar Government.

The latest increases therefore raise a bigger question for Gibraltar’s shopping trade: how attractive will the Rock remain to people making a special trip to buy tobacco? It is too early to say that shopping habits have changed, but the price difference that has helped make tobacco attractive to cross-border shoppers is clearly being squeezed.

New rules link Gibraltar prices to Spain

The increases are not simply a decision by Gibraltar to make cigarettes more expensive. They are part of the new arrangements introduced following the UK-EU agreement concerning Gibraltar and the associated customs agreement between Spain and the UK.

Under the new system, Gibraltar must operate a price-differential mechanism for cigarettes. The difference in retail price between Gibraltar and Spain cannot exceed €0.80 or 15 per cent per packet, with the lower differential applying. The system continues to divide cigarettes into four categories.

Gibraltar had already explained that its new system would involve quarterly adjustments to minimum cigarette prices. The Government said prices would be changed if Spanish tobacco prices or exchange rates moved, allowing the Gibraltar minimums to be kept within the limits required by the agreement. That means October’s increases are not necessarily the end of the story.

More changes could follow

The new framework also changed the way tobacco is taxed in Gibraltar. From July 14, different excise rates began applying to the four cigarette categories, while a 15 per cent Transaction Tax is also applied to the relevant tobacco transactions. Gibraltar’s Government said the changes were designed to meet the objectives of the treaty and increase government revenue.

The tobacco-price mechanism is therefore likely to become a regular feature of life on the Rock rather than a one-off increase. For Spanish residents and visitors who have long regarded Gibraltar as a place to pick up cheaper cigarettes, that could make the difference between a tobacco purchase being an obvious bargain and one that is simply a little cheaper than buying in Spain.

Is Gibraltar’s bargain-shopping era changing?

The new prices do not mean Gibraltar is suddenly losing its appeal as a shopping destination. The Rock has many other attractions, and the new arrangements are also designed to make movement between Gibraltar and the EU easier in several respects.

But tobacco has been a particularly visible part of Gibraltar’s cross-border shopping economy, and a 46 per cent increase in one cigarette category is difficult to ignore. With prices now linked more closely to those in Spain, shoppers could see further changes whenever Spanish tobacco prices or the pound-euro exchange rate move.

For anyone crossing the border mainly because cigarettes are cheaper on the Rock, the calculation has therefore changed considerably.

And with the new system requiring Gibraltar to keep cigarette prices within an agreed distance of Spanish prices, the days when tobacco provided a particularly large saving could be coming under increasing pressure.