NS&I reverses next month’s planned cuts to Premium Bonds in win for savers

NS&I axes planned brutal rate cuts for Premium Bonds and other easy-access savings accounts – but fixed-rates will still plummet More than 21m people hold Premium Bonds which were due to be less generous The odds on a £1 Bond winning a prize were due to lengthen to 26,000 to 1 The number of winners … Read more

Khloé Kardashian bonds with daughter True in quarantine ahead of her 2nd birthday bash

Khloé Kardashian bonds with daughter True in quarantine ahead of her 2nd birthday bash By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 07:08 BST, 10 April 2020 | Updated: 19:46 BST, 10 April 2020 Keeping Up with the Kardashians star Khloé Kardashian bonded with her daughter True while quarantined within the confines of her seven-bedroom $7.2M Calabasas … Read more

Are Premium Bonds a good gift for hard to buy young family members?

Tea and crumpets. Cricket. Constantly talking about the weather. Premium Bonds. All of these are unequivocally British and the last has captured the imagination like no other financial product since launching in the 1950s. When I interviewed Agent Million some seven years ago – the person whose job it is to deliver £1million jackpot news … Read more

Chelsea Bonds and Infinity Bonds paying 27% – are they too good to be true?

We have a chunk of cash we want to tuck away for up to five years. I have seen two bonds advertised through Google. One is named Chelsea Bonds, the other is Infinity Bonds. The Chelsea Bonds are offering a 22 per cent return, which seems far too high – is this anything to do … Read more

Yorkshire Building Society axes monthly income fixed-rate bonds

Savers looking for monthly pocket money have been dealt a blow by the news one of the nation’s largest building societies will no longer pay monthly interest on its fixed-rate bonds. Yorkshire Building Society previously offered monthly interest payments to savers who held its one, two and three-year fixed-rate bonds and Isas, but now only … Read more

MDMA reopens a ‘window in the brain’ that lets PTSD victims form new bonds

The popular party drug MDMA – or ecstasy – may ‘reopen’ narrow windows in the brain that allows us to re-learn better social behaviors, new research suggests.  MDMA has been given breakthrough therapy status by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because it has shown such promise for treating PTSD.  Scientists have observed the way … Read more

Daniel Craig reveals he wasn’t allowed to drive James Bond’s iconic Aston Martin during chase scenes

Daniel Craig reveals he wasn’t allowed to drive James Bond’s iconic Aston Martin DB5 during high-speed chase scenes over safety fears The actor, 51, told Top Gear Magazine on Thursday that he couldn’t drive and act at the same time as it was seen to be too dangerous Daniel’s stunt driver Mark Higgins would take his … Read more