A mystery man from Kirklees is £1 million richer thanks to a Premium Bonds win.
The unnamed man, who bought his winning bond in November 2012, was one of two winners picked this month by ERNIE, the Government scheme’s random number generator.
A mystery Leeds woman also scooped the top prize this month making it the first month when both £1m winners were from the same county.
Premium Bonds were introduced by the then Chancellor and later Prime Minister Harold MacMillan in 1956.
A person may invest up to £40,000 into the scheme, run by the Government NS&I.
The government pays interest on the bonds – currently 1.35% – which goes into a prize fund with monthly draws.
Millions of prizes – 1,977,413 in November 2014 – between £25 and £1m are paid out monthly.
Premium Bonds have proved popular because investors are more likely to receive a prize than in other lotteries – and the bonds may be cashed in at face value at any time, with a £25 prize from 1961 still waiting to be claimed!
But that's not all - across the UK there are more than one million unclaimed Premium Bonds prizes worth more than £48m in total - and there are 22,000 prizes worth almost £1m are waiting for their winners to come forward.
Imagine being told you'd won a life changing amount of money?
