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In today’s Autumn Statement, the Chancellor announced that NS&I’s Net Financing target for 2016-17 is to be revised.

While Premium Bonds celebrate their 60th anniversary today, ERNIE, the random number generator is also celebrating a major milestone by making the 350th Premium Bonds millionaire.

Sixty years is a long time in anyone’s book: in that time there have been 12 British Prime Ministers, five UK Eurovision winners, and there have been over 8,000 episodes of Coronation Street broadcasted to homes up and down the country.

It would seem that the only way is Essex after a lucky lady in the county learned that she has become one of October’s Premium Bonds £1 million jackpot winners.

National Savings and Investments (NS&I) is today launching the first edition of its new Financial Advice Barometer – a quarterly survey of financial advisers. It finds that 83% of advisers are currently either ‘very confident’ or ‘fairly confident’ about the future prospects for the financial advice industry.

Lancashire and Suffolk have become the latest regions to celebrate Premium Bonds £1 million jackpot winners, as ERNIE has randomly selected their numbers in September’s Premium Bonds draw.

The old phrase ‘Good things come to those who wait’ has been especially pertinent to Premium Bond winners in 2016, as a number of Premium Bonds winners have won high value prizes from Bonds bought 30 years ago or older.

ERNIE is sending Agent Million to the West of England this month, as good news will be delivered to Cornwall and Somerset.

NS&I today announced its annual results for the year to 31 March 2016. Key points include:

West Sussex’s very own intrepid space explorer Tim Peake seems to have brought back some luck from the stars, as two winners from West Sussex become July’s Premium Bonds millionaires this month.