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Press releaseMARCH’S £1 MILLION JACKPOT WINNING NUMBERS01 March 2008Over 1.7 million other tax-free prizes worth over £106 million also awarded
The winner from Wiltshire wishes to remain anonymous. In Wiltshire nearly 300,000 people own Premium Bonds, worth a total of just over £470 million. There are almost 4,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes in Wiltshire, altogether worth just over £220,000. It is the third time that someone in the county has won the Premium Bond jackpot prize. The winner from Dumfries and Galloway also wishes to remain anonymous. He stated: “I have been waiting for this day for a long time! My good fortune will go a long way towards helping my family! Thank you ERNIE, it looks like we’ve certainly been blessed with some luck!” In Dumfriesshire just under 40,000 people own Premium Bonds, worth in total over £46 million. There are also over 600 unclaimed Premium Bond Prizes in Dumfries and Galloway, worth a total of over £40,000. This is the first time that someone in Dumfries and Galloway has won the jackpot. In March’s draw ERNIE paid out over 1.7 million in prizes, together amounting to more than £108 million in value. There were 36,203,395,210 bonds in the draw. Value and number of prizes awarded in March 2008
Premium Bond Facts 23 million people have a total of £36 billion invested in Premium Bonds. Premium Bonds can be bought online at www.nsandi.com, by telephone on 0500 007 0075, by post and over the counter at Post Office® branches, and brochures can be picked up in over 400 WHSmith stores. Since the first Premium Bonds prize draw in 1957, over 169.30 million tax-free prizes together worth over £10.9 billion have been paid out. Prizes range from £50 to £1 million. There are currently over 500,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes, which added together amount to £30 million. There is no time limit on claiming prizes. Premium Bonds investors can check to see if they have won by visiting www.nsandi.com and using the Premium Bonds prize checker. All Premium Bonds prizes are free of UK income tax and capital gains tax. ENDS Notes to Editors 1. The February jackpot winners from Wiltshire and Dumfries and Galloway both wish to remain anonymous. 2. All Premium Bonds prizes are free of UK income tax and capital gains tax. 3. The lucky jackpot winners become ERNIE’s 205th and 206th Premium Bond millionaires 4. Pictures of ERNIE (including the new ERNIE 4 machine), Agent Million and buying Premium Bonds online are available in high-resolution jpeg format from the NS&I media team. 5. Free phone number – calls from mobiles may be chargeable. Telephone calls may be recorded. 6. Further information on NS&I (National Savings and Investments), including press releases and product information, is available on the website at www.nsandi.com. You can also contact the NS&I media team. 7. Subscribe to the NS&I RSS newsfeed. Simply copy and paste this link www.nsandi.com/mediacentre.xml into your RSS reader to receive regular news alerts from NS&I. 8. NS&I has a number of spokespeople available for interviews and our experienced radio team is available via our ISDN line: 020 7602 4522.
Media team The numbers below are for media use only. Customers wishing to contact NS&I can find details here.
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