Now that’s a lockdown investment! Saver scoops £1m Premium Bond jackpot with May purchase as £4.5bn worth are snapped up in three months The Tyne and Wear saver secured a 4,900% return on a £20,000 punt in May It was the first draw their investment was eligible to win prizes in Figures from NS&I suggest … Read more
James Bond bosses are reportedly planning a spin-off based on the spy’s recently-discovered daughter, penned by Killing Eve’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Sources claimed bosses have approached Phoebe to pen a franchise documenting how the offspring of 007 becomes an agent herself. It comes following reports that Bond is set to to have daughter in the long-awaited … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Bonds will be good for Britain and savers By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:31 BST, 6 June 2020 | Updated: 22:51 BST, 6 June 2020 It is difficult to argue a case for savers when the economy looks as if it is going to lurch into recession and unemployment … Read more
Not a bad coronavirus punt: Saver grabs a 7,000% return after scooping £1m Premium Bonds jackpot from a February 2020 investment A Stoke-on-Trent saver turned a £14,000 investment into the £1m jackpot The visit from Agent Million means they secured a 7,042% return Over the same period putting the money in UK stocks could have … Read more
Marketing boss who sold toxic bonds for London Capital & Finance provides same service for another firm By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 11 April 2019 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 11 April 2019 36 shares 9 View comments Paul Careless marketed LCF’s mini-bonds online and by phone The marketing … Read more
My dad has died, and I have two very old £1 Premium Bonds, which I think are about 50 years old. Some newer ones have been transferred into my name but I’m not too sure about the two older ones, which have my signature on the back too. I now live in South Africa and … Read more
The popular party drug MDMA – or ecstasy – may ‘reopen’ narrow windows in the brain that allows us to re-learn better social behaviors, new research suggests. MDMA has been given breakthrough therapy status by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because it has shown such promise for treating PTSD. Scientists have observed the way … Read more
Relief for 21m savers as NS&I drops plan to axe prizes on Premium Bonds because of coronavirus More than 21m people hold Premium Bonds which were due to be less generous The odds on a £1 Bond winning a prize were due to lengthen to 26,000 to 1 The number of winners of all prizes … Read more