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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.

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.

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

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.

NS&I today announced that its Chief Executive, Jane Platt CBE, will stand down this summer after 10 years’ running the organisation. She was appointed in September 2006, following a successful private sector career in financial services.

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.

Despite receiving a fair share of Valentines’ cards over the years, this month ERNIE has shared his love in Wales and the City of Nottingham, making two lucky women Premium Bonds millionaires.

NS&I today published its un-audited quarterly results for the second quarter (July-September 2015) of the financial year 2015-16.