38 h. ago The top 100 most common names for Premium Bond prize winners – from David to Shirley

Premium Bonds are entered into a monthly prize draw and every bond has equal chance of winning

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38 h. ago David, John, Michael and Susan among common names of Premium Bonds prize winners

Figures from NS&I show that since 2022, the name David has been the most common each year among people winning Premium Bonds prizes of £500 or more.

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54 h. ago The 100 names most likely to win big on Premium bonds (and it's great news if you're called David or Susan!)

Almost a quarter of the population of the UK hold Premium Bonds with the hope of becoming a millionaire in one of the monthly prize draws.

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4 d. ago Dick Van Dyke says avoiding two common things is key to long life as he nears 100

‘I’ve always thought that anger is one thing that eats up a person’s insides,’ star admits as he closes in on milestone birthday

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9 d. ago ‘You’re not conning anybody’ – Neville fuming over ‘waste of time’ Man Utd star and says he ‘shouldn’t be playing there’

MANCHESTER UNITED legend Gary Neville slammed Luke Shaw after Monday's disappointing loss to 10-man Everton. United were defeated 1-0 by the Toffees at Old Trafford thanks to Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall's winner even though David Moyes' men played EIGHTY MINUTES with ten men. Moyes picked up his first ever away win at the Theatre of Dreams despite...

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1 week ago David Egan dedicates winner to Tommie Jakes as fundraiser for his family reaches £20,000

Egan was speaking after he rode the horse Shiplake to win at Southwell on Friday. He made it a double on fellow Kevin Philippart De Foy trainee Domina Ignis in the colours of Amo Racing

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3 w. ago ‘It’s notoriously hard to write about sex’: David Szalay on Flesh, his astounding Booker prize

The novel’s protagonist is violent, libidinous and so inarticulate he says ‘OK’ some 500 times. So how did the author turn his story into a tragic masterpiece?When we meet the morning after the announcement of this year’s Booker prize, David Szalay, the winner, seems an extremely genial and gentle author to have created one of the most morally ambiguous characters in recent contemporary fiction. His sixth novel, Flesh, about the rise and fall of a Hungarian immigrant to the UK, is unlike anything you have read before.Szalay (pronounced “Sol-oy”) is often described as “Hungarian-British”, but that has offended Canadians this morning, he says. His mother was Canadian and he was born in that country, where his Hungarian father had moved a few years earlier. “I’m arguably more Canadian than Hungarian.” Now 51, he grew up in England, graduated from Oxford University, and lived in Hungary for 15 years. To make things more confusing, he is over from Vienna, where he now lives with his wife...

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3 w. ago David Szalay’s Flesh is the most deserved Booker Prize winner in years

The British-Hungarian author’s triumph caps off what has already been a wonderful year for the UK’s most prestigious award for fiction, writes Martin Chilton

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3 w. ago The risky strategy of Booker winner Flesh pays off | Justine Jordan

The protagonist’s inner life is hidden from the reader in this highly original novelDavid Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ FleshReflecting on the Booker judging process, chair Roddy Doyle stressed the “singularity” of Flesh, the most unusual novel on the shortlist. In his sixth book, Hungarian-British writer David Szalay takes a classic story arc – one man’s journey through life, from childhood to old age – and presents it in a radically new and challenging way, scooping out the interiority that usually powers the novel form.We meet his protagonist, István, as a bored 15-year-old in a Hungarian backwater. He is seduced by a middle-aged neighbour into a relationship suffused with shame and disgust; a confused act of violence knocks his life off course; he joins the military and is stationed in Kuwait; he moves to London and works as a bouncer before the rising tides of global capital carry him, for a while, into the monied elite. And all the while, we are cut off from his tho...

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3 w. ago Alan Carr issued warning by The Traitors star after breaking down during show final

Celebrity Traitors winner Alan Carr was comforted by Nick Mohammed and David Olusoga as he broke down in tears after winning the BBC series

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