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PREMIUM BONDS JACKPOT DRAW
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Location: BEDFORDSHIRE WINNER IN THE JANUARY 2012 PREMIUM BONDS JACKPOT DRAW 03 January 2012 A man living in Bedfordshire Bond Number: 59BW372041 Winning Bond bought in March 1997 Total holdings £23,200 There were 43,194,250,299 eligible Bond numbers in the draw. For the January 2012 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.7 million prizes, together amounting to over £53 million in value. This brings the grand total of prizes since the first draw in June 1957, to 242.37 million and the value to £13.6 billion. Prize and value breakdown in January 2012 Value of prizes Number of prizes £1,000,000 1 £100,000 4 £50,000 10 £25,000 18 £10,000 44 £5,000 90 £1,000 1,079 £500 3,237 £100 31,734 £50 31,734 £25 1,731,809 Total prize fund value Total number of prizes £53,992,825 1,799,760 Premium Bond facts Premium Bonds are an investment where, instead of interest payments, investors have the chance to win tax-free prizes. They were officially launched by Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his 1956 Budget. Premium Bonds can be bought online at nsandi.com, by telephone on 0500 500 000 (see note 4), by post and over the counter at Post Office® branches. Like all NS&I products, Premium Bonds offer investors 100% capital security, backed by HM Treasury. ENDS
Notes to editors 1. All Premium Bonds prizes are free of UK Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax. 2. The jackpot winner becomes ERNIE’s 264th Premium Bond millionaire. 3. 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. 4. Free phone number - calls from mobiles may be chargeable. Telephone calls may be recorded. 5. Further information on NS&I (National Savings and Investments), including press releases and product information, is available on the website at nsandi.com. You can also contact the NS&I media team. 6. Subscribe to the NS&I RSS newsfeed. Simply copy and paste this link www.nsandi.com/media-centre-news-feed.xml into your RSS reader to receive regular news alerts from NS&I. 7. NS&I has a number of spokespeople available for interviews and our experienced media team is available via our ISDN line: 020 7828 5288 . Media team Chris Dowsett 020 7932 6644 chris.dowsett@nsandi.com Gill Stephens 020 7932 6789 gill.stephens@nsandi.com Jonty Alone 020 7932 6633 jonty.alone@nsandi.com Gareth Headon 020 7932 6611 gareth.headon@nsandi.com | ||
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