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Press releaseNEW MILLIONAIRES FROM CARDIFF AND NORTHAMPTONSHIRE IN NOVEMBER’S JACKPOT DRAW03 November 2008 Millionaire 1 Millionaire 2 The first winner, a gentleman from Cardiff who remains anonymous, said of his win “This is such amazing news for me and my family. I can’t quite believe it’s true; we are just so excited by it! I will try and save some of it, but think we will have to treat ourselves to something special to celebrate something so life changing.” In Cardiff almost 120,000 people hold Premium Bonds worth nearly £170,000,000. There are 2,871 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes in total worth approximately £165,000. The second winner, a male from Northamptonshire who also wishes to remain anonymous, was amazed by his win, saying, “I never imagined I might win such a big prize. This is just such a surprise and will make a huge difference to my life – I will be able to help my children and grandchildren.” In Northamptonshire over 230,000 people hold Premium Bonds which are worth approximately £345,000,000. 3,668 prizes remain unclaimed, with a value of over £210,000. In November’s draw ERNIE paid out over 1.5 million prizes, together amounting to more than £89 million in value. There were 37,488,963,032 eligible Bond numbers in the draw. Prize and value breakdown in November 2008
Premium Bond facts The current Premium Bonds prize fund rate is 2.85% tax-free2. The current odds of each £1 Bond number winning any prize are 24,000 to 1, so with average luck an investor with £30,000 in Premium Bonds could win 15 tax-free prizes a year. Currently 23 million people have a total of over £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 WHSmith in 400 of its High Street stores and 155 of its travel stores. Like all NS&I products, Premium Bonds offer investors 100% capital security, backed by HM Treasury, as well as the sense of fun that comes from potentially winning tax-free prizes. Since the first Premium Bonds prize draw in 1957 over 182 million tax–free prizes worth £11.7 billion have been paid out. Prizes range from £50 to £1 million. There are currently over 550,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes, worth over £32 million. There is no time limit for 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. ENDS Notes to Editors 1. The November jackpot winners from Cardiff and Northamptonshire 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 221st and 222nd Premium Bond millionaires. 4. Pictures of ERNIE (including the new ERNIE 4 machine), Agent Million and people buying Premium Bonds 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 media team is available via our ISDN line: 020 7602 4522.
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