A LONDON woman has still not come forward to claim her £100,000 Premium Bond prize.

Treasury-backed provider National Savings and Investments is urging people to check their forgotten bonds as a whopping £44m in prizes remain unclaimed.

These include the bond number 8LK522839, which was bought by a female Londoner for £25 and won £100,000 in February 2007.

Elsewhere, another London man has won £25,000 with his 1JK051177 bond, following a draw in 1991.

And a Kent woman is due £50,000 from a November 2007 prize draw for her 3VT019901 bond.

More than a third of the UK population collectively has more than £45bn invested in Premium Bonds across the UK. Every eligible bond is entered into a monthly prize draw and investors forgo interest in order to have the chance to win tax-free prizes.

Operations manager Jill Waters said: "Prizes often become unclaimed as a result of people moving house, or forgetting that bonds have been bought for them as a child, or executors are unaware the Bonds are held when someone dies.