Spotify launches a $12.99 per month premium plan for COUPLES that merges their music tastes together with shared playlists The plan will attempt to court couples to join Spotify premium It allows them to merge music tastes and curates joint playlists Users can still keep their individual accounts and listening histories The plan option is … Read more
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
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
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 DVLA has earned £3million over four years by charging callers to use controversial premium rate phone lines Income is generated from premium-rate lines that cost 51p per minute to call They are more than three times the 16p per minute standard 01 and 02 numbers The income is proving ‘a nice little earner’ for … Read more
It said ‘premium economy’ on my ticket, but frankly it felt more like business class. I was flying with Air New Zealand from London to Auckland and from the get-go it was plain to see why the airline’s premium economy cabin has frequently nabbed the top spot at the Skytrax World Airline Awards. It slipped … Read more
One in three of us has Premium Bonds, and so is in with a chance of winning the £1 million top prize every month. The bonds, which offer savers prize draw rewards rather than interest, are the nation’s favourite savings product, with 21 million holders. And after National Savings & Investments (NS&I) this month abandoned … Read more
Is this Emirates’ first ever premium economy seat? Firm behind newly unveiled design says the customer is a ‘Middle Eastern-based airline’ The Eclipse seat has been showcased at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg The seat is described as being a seat suitable for ‘long-haul premium economy’ Emirates is to launch a premium economy cabin on … 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