Premium Bonds have long been extremely popular with UK savers – with many parents, grandparents and other relatives opting to purchase them for young children in the family.
British tech companies and researchers will gain access to EU supercomputers after an official report warned that the UK was falling behind in the race for processing power.
The Russian defence ministry said on Monday its air defence systems destroyed 16 missiles and 31 drones that Ukraine launched at Russian territory overnight, including 12 missiles over the battered border region of Belgorod. Five houses were damaged in Belgorod, but according to preliminary information, there were no injuries, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on the Telegram messaging app. On Sunday, 15 people were killed in Belgorod when a section of an apartment block collapsed after being struck by fragments of a Soviet-era missile, launched by Ukraine and shot down by Russian forces, Russia said.