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Bank 'gave' customer £2m

An absent-minded bank clerk accidentally gave a customer nearly £2 million instead of her £50 winning premium bond.

Care worker Jenny Woollvin, 24, paid a £50 winning Premium Bond cheque into her local Abbey branch. But when she checked her balance, she found she was a 'millionaire', reports The Sun. Her original receipt showed the clerk had put part of her account number into the space where the amount goes - and given her £1,761,000. Jenny, 24, from Seaford, East Sussex, said: "I was staggered. It was nice to have a dream." But 24 hours later the cash disappeared. An Abbey spokesman said: "This was a genuine human error. When we cashed up, we made the correction."