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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.

For the April 2014 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.8 million prizes, together amounting to over £51 million in value. There were 47,485,235,758 eligible Bond numbers in the draw. In the County of Durham there are over 190,000 Premium Bonds holdings worth more than £300 million.

NS&I today published its un-audited quarterly results for the third quarter (October to December 2015) of the financial year 2015-16. NS&I delivered £2.3 billion of Net Financing in Q3 2015-16, giving a year-to-date total of £10.1 billion.

It’s been a great year for Leicester, and with the football team riding high in the Premier League, the city is also celebrating the New Year in style with the news that two of its own – a man and a woman – have become Premium Bonds millionaires.

Q2 2015-16 Net Financing of £2.4 billion NS&I today published its un-audited quarterly results for the second quarter (July-September 2015) of the financial year 2015-16. NS&I delivered £2.4 billion of Net Financing in Q2 2015-16, giving a year-to-date total of £7.8 billion. NS&I’s latest quarterly Value Indicator figure was £67 million, giving a half year total of £89 million. NS&I’s target for 2015-16 is to deliver positive value, excluding the cost of the special Issue…

This month’s jackpot winners are in Cumbria and Bedfordshire. A male living in Cumbria Bond number: 225EP035620 Winning Bond bought in June 2014 Total holdings: £27,590 A female living in Bedfordshire

NS&I’s Quarterly Savings Survey reveals the highest summer savings levels in a decade. Britons are now saving over £20 more a month than ten years ago. Britons expect to save even more this Autumn when savings traditionally spike Savings levels in Britain rose over the summer months putting Summer 2015 as the healthiest on record for levels of personal savings in a decade, the latest research from NS&I reveals.

This month’s jackpot winners are in Cambridgeshire and Derbyshire. October’s Premium Bonds millionaires A female living in Cambridgeshire Bond number: 70QM718428 Winning Bond bought in April 2005 Total holdings: £29,995 A male living in Derbyshire

Change will ensure NS&I continues to balance interests of its savers, taxpayers and the stability of the broader financial services sector NS&I today announced that it is reducing the interest rate on its Direct ISA by 0.25% to 1.25% tax-free/AER. This change will come into effect from 16 November 2015. NS&I will be notifying customers affected by the interest rate reduction at least sixty days in advance of it taking place.

NS&I today published its latest unaudited quarterly figures, for the first quarter (April-June 2015) of the financial year 2015-16. In Q1 2015-16, NS&I delivered £5.4 billion of Net Financing and £22 million of savings to the taxpayer – as measured by the Value Indicator.