Three Premium Bond account holders from Manchester have won a whopping £100k each in the September draw.

It comes shortly after the National Savings and Investments (NS&I) changed its Premium Bond interest rate for the second time this year.

Its prize fund rate reduced by 0.2% (3.8% to 3.6%) from August, a few months after going from 4% to 3.8% in April.

Despite the prize fund rate being slashed, NS&I confirmed that odds of winning remain the same, at 22,000 to 1 for each £1 Premium Bond held, so although a similar amount of people will win, there will be fewer large prizes and less prize money paid out each month.

As always with each Premium Bond draw, two people won the ultimate prize of £1,000,000 - one person in Cumbria and another from Durham.

The winning bonds were 224BZ748917 a

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