February 2015 T Is for THOUSANDS! Lucky Andrea Goodheart Took Delivery of a £5,000 Cash Prize Just Before Christmas… All Thanks to Compers News and Compers Update

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Join us at CompersNews.com Britain’s Biggest Competitions Magazine February 2015 T is for THOUSANDS! Lucky Andrea Goodheart took delivery of a £5,000 cash prize just before Christmas… all thanks to Compers News and Compers Update. One piece of advice we always give here at Compers much longer than expected to sort everything out. News is: always try to get your entries in early. So Fingers crossed we’ll be able to announce the winners you can’t blame your editor for muttering under his in next month’s issue though, so watch this space! breath over the Christmas and New Year break as his Thanks to everyone for all your entries. The enormous Inbox strained under literally HUNDREDS of last- popularity of the competition took us all completely minute entries for our A-Z of Prizes competition. by surprise and it’s been fantastic seeing and reading We had hoped to bring you the results of our A-Z about your thousands and thousands of A-Z wins. quest in this month’s issue, but we received so many One last-minute entry that caught our eye came entries – THOUSANDS in all – that it’s taking us from Andrea Goodheart… her prize of thousands of pounds matched the thousands of entries we received, so it seems a fitting photo for this month’s PICK OF THE MONTH front cover. “This photo was taken the day before Christmas Eve when I received my £5,000 cheque from Arrowwords Goo-ing magazine”, Andrea told us. “I entered using the info from Compers Update and sent a postcard so my subscription to your mid-monthly bulletin is definitely always going to be renewed!” Thanks for telling us about your great prize Andrea, and glad to WON For Gold be of service! January usually only means one thing in the wonderful world of comping… the launch of the year’s big Easter promotions! And this Compers News members have reported year is no exception, with both Lindt and Our Latest Wins these BIG prizes since our last issue! Cadbury once again getting in on the act. 1. £2,500 Co-operative Travel voucher Unique codes on Lindt Gold Bunnies could 2. £2,000 cash

win you a £10,000 holiday of your choice, 3. Stunning £1,500 gold ring THIS MONTH and you’ll be up to £1,000 better off if you’re 4. £1,000 Love2shop gift voucher lucky (or should that be unlucky?) enough to 5. £1,000 John Lewis shopping spree find a Goo-less Cadbury Crème Egg between now and Easter. And if you need even more encouragement, here is just a small selection of the other prizes our And if these comps sound familiar, it’s readers have told us about during the past month! the third year running that they’ve both Center Parcs family break, FOUR £100 Co-op shopping vouchers, Hotpoint washing machine, appeared – so Lindt and Cadbury £100 Asda gift voucher, hot air balloon flight, £500 M&S gift voucher, KitchenAid Artisan stand must be happy with the extra sales. mixer, £300 Hand Picked Collection gift voucher, FOUR more £150 jewellery vouchers from Regina Blitz, luxury Christmas hamper, THREE more £500 shopping vouchers from Velvet, FOUR £100 Check out this month’s Listings fuel cards from Mars, iPhone 6, £500 BHS spending spree, THREE iPad Airs, luxury spa break, £150 File starting on page 14 for Selfridges voucher, case of wine, £750 bathroom makeover, iPad Mini, £100 worth of Theatre Tokens, full details of these – and designer handbag, London pub tour, £250 cash, £500 worth of Barbour products, £100 Waitrose hundreds more – great shopping voucher, £200 House of Fraser gift card, Xbox One console, £300 Brand Alley gift voucher, new comps. plus LOTS of festive jumpers from Budweiser, cuddly koalas from Cushelle and much, much more… Remember, these are all GENUINE prizes won by current Compers News members! You tell us about dozens of new prizes EVERY SINGLE DAY, so we don’t need to rely on dusty testimonials or general press releases. And with so many prizes coming our way, the next Compers News winner could be YOU!

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closed the competition and awarded the prize. Why did they change it to another strange time - so they could sort out THE QUIETEST MONTH? the competition before they went home? Plenty of people As many compers will know the first couple of As you may have read on this month’s front page, were upset by this, and it was actually a non-comper who months of the year are by far the quietest in the another reason for this not-so-quiet period at complained to the ASA. This was their ruling:- comping calendar as many promoters take stock the Compers News office was the avalanche We have considered your complaint, and think you have after the rush of 31st December closing dates, and of last-minute entries for our exclusive A-Z of a valid point. With a view to acting quickly, we will ask try to eke out their promotional budgets until the Prizes competition, which closed at the end of Last Minute Network Ltd to provide us with an assurance start of the new financial year in April. I’m happy December. We ended up with literally thousands that they will not change the closing date of future to report that this year’s hiatus doesn’t seem quite of entries – an astounding response – so thank competitions unless this is in line with the advertising as bad as usual though, and we’re already seeing you for sharing all your photographs with us. Code we administer. some nice new comps – and prizes! – appearing. If everything goes to plan, we’ll announce the Take a look at this month’s Listings File for all the names of the lucky winners in next month’s So really lastminute.com have got away with a telling off, latest details. issue. By the way, if you entered our A-Z and asked not to do it again. I would like to see the ASA competition by post and included a SAE for the given the power to make a company award an additional Although it may seem a quiet time for everyone return of your photographs, we’ll be sending the prize. It feels like a weak victory, but if we don’t report reading this it is always, on the contrary, a busy photos back once the winners have been drawn every case, how will the ASA know the size of the problems time here at Compers News. Holiday deadlines and officially confirmed so please bear with us a we face? My only advice for competitions on social play havoc with our usual schedules, and we have little longer. media would be to enter as soon as possible, in case the to spend more time unearthing the fewer comps competition suddenly changes or disappears. that are still out there. It’s also the period when we All of those last-minute entries did get us a bit undertake our biggest research task of the year – worried about our new True Comper Awards The next competition had a closing date which was the annual Whitaker’s Almanack quiz. This year’s competition though (you can read full details extended. A Chatterbox forum user found a competition on edition was published a few weeks later than usual on pages 8 & 9). If you’re planning on entering, the Poundland website on the 8th September with a closing as they wanted to include the results of the Scottish then please remember there are MONTHLY date of the 30th September 2014. There were lots of lovely Independence referendum, and this in turn gave closing dates so it’s important that you don’t prizes, five first prizes of iPads and a year’s supply of VO5 us a lot less time than usual for research. We still leave everything until the very last minute this styling products for 50 runner-ups. Purchase of two specific VO5 products was required to enter, and straight away managed it though – after wading through 1,182 time around. In fact, our first awards category members were reporting that it was very difficult to find pages of very serious facts and figures many, many closes on 28th February – which isn’t very long the product in their local Poundland store. Many members times – and you’ll find our suggested answers in at all – so make sure you don’t miss out. The made a special trip to other Poundland branches to find the this month’s Listings File. main prizes really DO fall into the ‘money can’t product quickly, because of the short closing date. buy’ category, and we’ve got a brilliant day with As far as I’m aware we’re the last major comping lots of surprises planned for all of our lucky True Suddenly on 26th September a Chatterbox user noticed magazine that takes the time and effort to undertake Comper Award winners! that the online terms and conditions had changed. They this Herculean task every year, so fingers crossed were now showing a closing date of 31st October. As I we’ll see another Compers News reader walking mentioned earlier, this is against the CAP code, so I started away with the top prize – as so often happens. Steve Middleton, Editor off by trying to contact Poundland directly. I asked them why they had changed the date, and guessing there had been a product distribution problem, suggested splitting the prizes over two closing dates to be fair to early entrants. Recorded delivery letters were ignored, and promises of a return phone call to explain did not materialise. Finally on 11th October I made a complaint to the ASA. I said that I SAVE THE DATE felt that I had been disadvantaged, because I had made a A competition closing date is one of the first things we check when special effort to buy the products before the original closing we find a competition we want to enter. It is arguably one of the date. I received a ruling at the end of October, and it was most important rules, but what happens if the date changes? not in my favour: Lately, I have noticed an increase in competition terms also giving We have spoken with the advertiser and we understand a TIME for closing the competition too. This month I want to look at that they experienced issues with the supply of the promotional stands to be used in store, which in turn led two competitions that had their closing dates/times changed, and to distribution issues from their warehouse, and resulted in the problems that occur when this happens. the promotion not being promoted in all stores until 26th September. It was for this reason that they extended the The CAP Code on Sales Promotions is quite clear on the these featured in several photo competitions. One such closing date to compensate. closing date issue: competition was run by lastminute.com on Twitter. To enter, you had to “post a picture with our Paddington Bear - As you noted, we require that closing dates of promotions Dapper Bear, who resides at Notting Hill Gate Tube Station, Unless circumstances outside the are not changed unless circumstances outside the and use #DapperBear”. The prize was £250 credit to spend reasonable control of the promoter make reasonable control of the promoter make it unavoidable. In on a stay at a London Paddington hotel. it unavoidable, closing dates must not be this case, we consider that the supply issues, which arose changed. If they are changed, promoters with the manufacturer, would seem likely to constitute The closing date and time were clearly shown in the must do everything reasonable to ensure circumstances outside the advertiser’s reasonable control, terms as 27th November at 11pm which is very precise, that consumers who participated within the and that by extending the closing date, consumers who and a strange time to choose. I wonder why they didn’t original terms are not disadvantaged. had been unable to enter the competition during that choose midnight? Our reader made a special trip to find delay, were provided with a reasonable opportunity to The release of a new Paddington film has meant that the Paddington on the final day of the competition. When do so. That said, we agree that the issues that arose in bear has featured heavily in advertising and competitions she got home, she was amazed to discover that they had this promotion could have been managed more equitably, recently. Fifty bear statues were spread across London and changed the terms to read 2pm, and so they had already promptly and efficiently.

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that without a doubt these are Compers News is the UK’s the best and happiest years of his premier newsletter dedicated to life. He doesn’t have to work for competitions and prize draws. With classic comping titles including 40+ hours a week any more or Competitors’ Journal, Competitor’s have any of the stress or expense CN Companion and Prize Draw Winner of travelling to and from work. And having joined us along the way, we can instead of worrying about how to trace our comping heritage back to 1913. make ends meet, or seeing if he could afford It’s an unrivalled history of which we’re the things he wants, he can finally relax safe in justifiably proud. the knowledge that he has more than enough money to see him In order to offer our members the best through. 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In this case, we do not consider that any of comfort and prosperity”. 800 Guillat Avenue, reduction in the chances of winning could be reasonably argued to Kent Science Park, be a direct result of the extension as it offered the opportunity to Sittingbourne ME9 8GU Wow! Some amazing claims there! I wonder how George (if he enter to those who would have, if not for the delay, been offered exists!) feels about being described as “getting on a bit”! How EDITORIAL SUBMISSIONS such opportunity within the original promotional period. tempting it is to think you could double your bank balance every For all reader stories, photos and three months and that success is 100% certain. 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The advertiser has acknowledged that they could have taken surprised that in this day and age, any company would think they FORUM Send a Private Message steps to communicate the change, and the surrounding issues, to could get away with advertising such claims. via Chatterbox to: those who had already entered and assured us that they will take SteveCompersNews greater care in future. They have also put in place new internal Understandably, the ASA were not impressed! procedures to ensure that the Legal Team is involved in any such THE PUBLISHER Press, advertising and business issues going forward. The ASA considered consumers would understand the claims queries should be addressed to: such as “this means your success is 100% certain” to mean that EMAIL marketing@ For these reasons, we have decided not to pursue any further action all users of the system had been successful in profiting from compersnews.com on this occasion. We will however keep your comments on file and POST Accolade Publishing Ltd., the system, and that those profits had been in line with those monitor the response to future promotions from this advertiser. Ground Floor, referenced in the ad. We noted Streetwise Publications’ assertions 64 Clarendon Road, that the system had been successful for its author, and that the use Watford WD17 1DA. This was obviously disappointing, but can you see their point of of mathematics ensured the system would always be successful, view? I think they are saying that consumers in general have not but noted that they had not provided any evidence to demonstrate been disadvantaged, because more were able to enter and maybe that any users of the system had been successful. We considered win. I can see it from both sides, but I still think the “early bird” that the advertisement suggested gambling could be a solution purchaser did lose out. However, in the end Chatterbox users IMPORTANT INFORMATION to financial concerns, an alternative to employment and a way to reported 3 out of the 5 main prizes and a good number of the Compers News Vol. XV No. II achieve financial security, which was in breach of the Code. February 2015 runner-up prizes, so we still did well overall. Editor: Steve Middleton We all love entering competitions, but we understand that it is not This publication is registered a way to “get rich quick” - if only! However, even the most sensible with the British Library A word to the Street-wise ISSN 2046-195X (Print) of us can sometimes get taken in, so please be vigilant and watch ISSN 2046-1968 (Online) out for elderly friends and relatives who are an easy target for such As you know, I like to watch the ASA rulings, and though not a ‘real’ schemes. Please do get in touch if you see any unfair or suspect ©2015 Accolade Publishing Limited. All rights competition, a recent ruling caught my attention. competitions you would like me to investigate. reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written consent of the A website advertisement from Streetwise Publications, headed publisher. We may monitor or record calls to maintain or improve our service. Printed in the “Discover How George Wins £50,000 A Year”, included various Comping Crusader United Kingdom. Registered company no. 5228102. claims about the success of an advertised gambling system, including “£980 a week, £50,000 a year, tax free, as much money Write to our Comping Crusader at: Compers News, AFFILIATIONS as he wants - whenever he likes! Basically I have found a way PO Box 8763, Nottingham NG2 9BS or email: compingcrusader@ & MEMBERSHIPS Accolade Publishing Ltd and Compers News I can win any amount of money I choose to win every day! My compersnews.com. There’s also a dedicated Comping Crusader are active members of the IPM and SIPA. The chosen medium of enjoyment for this is horse racing but I wouldn’t forum on our Chatterbox messageboard, which we suggest Institute of Promotional Marketing (IPM) is the call this ‘gambling’ because I am very ‘risk averse’ and the system you use if you have an urgent problem as other Compers News professional body that oversees and promotes always wins each day. This little system has the phenomenal ability members may be able to help. Our Comping Crusader will reply best practice and compliance for all competitions and promotions in the UK. to double the bank every three months. In his system instructions to as many queries as possible both on this page and via the he is going to show you exactly how to do this, so this means your Chatterbox forum, but please note that personal replies cannot success is 100% certain! George is ‘getting on a bit’ now but says be guaranteed due to the quantity of correspondence received.

February 2015 Compers News 3 Got a comping question? Want some advice, or more detail on a particular comping subject? Our experts are here to help! Send your questions, comments and subject ideas to: Ask the Experts, Ask The Experts Compers News, PO Box 8763, Nottingham NG2 9BS or email via: [email protected] This month and next, Pam & Jane take it in turns to tell their comping My Comping Story stories. First up, it’s over to Jane… This summer, I will have been a comper, at least a regular comper, for thirty years. And as I will also turn 60, comping will have been a major hobby for half of my life. And yet really I have been comping since I was tiny. Recently Pam and I were talking about how we started comping, and about how comping has changed our lives and has itself changed over the years we’ve been enjoying it, and thought you might like to hear our own stories. The snag is we both have FAR too much to say on the matter to fit into our normal pages, so we’ve decided to take a month each so we each get more space (although I’m sure either of us could fill a whole issue of Compers News if we had the chance!). Actually as I write this, Pam is sunning herself somewhere in the tropics, so she really IS taking a holiday this month!

When I was a little girl, my grandmother was a comper. She used to buy a weekly newspaper called Competitors Journal, which was crammed with advice about comps, lists of comps to look out for and comps for readers to enter – does that sound familiar at all? Yes, Compers News is now part of that great tradition of comping magazines. One prize of hers I remember well – in those days, bags of crisps were unsalted and came with a little blue paper twist containing the salt. There was an instant win promotion on them, and one day she opened her crisps and found that the salt package was lined with a little white “Congratulations” slip – her prize was a big metal tin containing 40 packets of crisps. As a five year old, I thought that was amazing! Grandma used to buy magazines like Titbits, which had order-of-merit competitions in it, and She, which used to have several pages of puzzle and tiebreaker comps, as well as entering the comps she found in CJ. One time I helped her to make as many words as possible out of the name of a brand of toothpaste, and she shared her prize with me – a postal order for 1/6 (that’s 7½p in today’s money). Another time, my parents sat inside a warm café while Grandma and I scoured the Rhyl seafront on a wet, windy day, clutching an empty washing powder packet. If we’d found the Mystery Man and shown him the packet, we’d In 1985 my husband left the Army and we settled down in the UK, and that’s when have won a prize, but sadly all we went home with was a nasty chill. my comping story really started. I didn’t rush in and become a comper straight away – I was too taken up with the move and settling down permanently to think One day she was looking after me when I was off school poorly, and she gave me a about it. Then one day I filled in the crossword in the magazine I was reading and copy of the local newspaper, with a picture to colour in. I’ve always loved colouring sent it in, and won the prize of a soft toy making kit, and that got me hooked. A few (I still do) and coloured it in straight away. Unknown to me, it was a competition days after winning, I spotted something I’d almost forgotten in the years since my and she posted it off to the paper. The next I knew of it I was the proud owner of gran died – a copy of Competitors Journal on a newsagent’s shelf. I treated myself, a pencil case containing a pen, pencils and a ruler – I’d won the competition! That read it cover to cover, and have never looked back! started me on my own comping journey. I dabbled throughout my childhood and occasionally won toys, books and stationery. My most memorable childhood win Soon the prizes started to trickle in – a packet of vegetarian burger mix which even was a dressing gown with a fluffy rabbit on the pocket! the birds wouldn’t eat, a few toys, a saucepan and soup bowls (we still use the pan, thirty years later) and of course a selection of T-shirts. In those days, everything As many people do, I lost interest in comping during my teens. It was only when I was done by post, so the turnaround time of a comp was pretty slow and it took a went to university that I became aware of comping as a recognised hobby. One of while to really start winning. But then, on Christmas Eve, a letter arrived to tell me my new student friends was a comper, and always seemed to have cinema tickets, that I’d won a top-of-the-range knitting machine worth £1,000. As many of you vouchers for meals out and other treats when the rest of us were struggling to know, I’m a crafter as well as a comper, so you will know how thrilled I was! At that afford any extras. He often had interesting tasks to take his mind off study, too time, the children were at primary school and they loved the fact that they could – for instance he once got us all hooked on trying to help him to identify cars tell me in the morning that they would like a jumper with cats/flowers/dinosaurs from photos of a tiny section of the bonnet. His comping did have its occasional on it and I’d have one knitted and ready for them by the time they got home from downsides though – he once won a whole case of canned chunky chicken in white school. What a perfect prize for my first ever biggie. sauce, and rather than waste it, ate it for every meal for the rest of term! At the time, with no internet, compers kept in touch with each other by post. All Urged on by my friend’s success, I attempted my first ever tiebreaker – a limerick kinds of postal comping services were advertised in CJ – pen pal clubs, round- completion on an entry form I was given when I went to see the film ‘Enter the robin entry form swapping groups, charity quiz sheets and desktop-published Dragon’. A few weeks later, I was delighted to receive a gift set of men’s toiletries. subscription-only magazines. I signed up for absolutely EVERYTHING and loved My Dad got a super Christmas present that year! it all! I know that some of you who are reading this now are among the friends I made then, swapping forms and labels and sharing news of our wins. I soon After University, I married and my husband was in the Army; his regiment was realised what a wonderfully friendly place the world of comping was – something part of the Brigade of Gurkhas who were based mostly in the Far East. For the that non-compers still find difficult to grasp. next few years we seldom lived for more than a few months in one place, living in Brunei, Germany, England (twice) and Hong Kong (three times) so I didn’t get The friendliness of comping has remained over the years, but oh my goodness how much chance to enter any competitions as so often we were due to have moved much everything else has changed! When I first started out, the proof of purchase on before they closed. But even so I did enter when I had the chance, and won needed for most comps was a label or bottle top, and I’m sure many compers several prizes in both the UK and Hong Kong. Not enough to really consider did what I did and had a drawer stuffed with labels and lids from products that myself a comper though. However I did encourage the children, when they came had frequent comps – Heinz, Nescafé, Fairy Liquid and so on. Then along came along, to enter colouring competitions and they were often successful. In fact the itemised till receipt, and promoters started to ask for those instead. Not only one of my daughters won us a very special family lunch in one of Hong Kong’s was it easier to handle, but it also meant they could check that the item had been top tourist hotels. bought within the promotion period. And my kitchen drawer could fill up with

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Do you run a local comp club? Are you looking for a comp club in your area, or thinking The Compers News Panel Of Experts of starting one up? Then advertise here for FREE! Email your ad to editor@compersnews. com with ‘Club Call’ in the subject line, or post it to: Club Call, Compers News, PO Box PAM CRAMPTON 8763, Nottingham NG2 9BS. Please note that we reserve the right to edit ads for space Chatterbox Username: swallowish reasons, and the editor’s decision on the suitability and/or publication of ads is final. Pam is a dedicated comper of many years CHELMSFORD standing. She has written regular articles, and has Chelmsford Comping Club is seeking new members to join our small friendly group. Meetings are held on the second Friday of every month. Lots of fun and laughter featured as a comping ‘Agony Aunt’, in a wide intermingled with comping chat, entry form swap table, in-house comp and raffle. If range of comping magazines and newsletters. you’ve been toying with the idea of meeting like-minded people who love to win, then this is the club for you. For more information email: [email protected] JANE WILLIS CHESTER Chatterbox Username: lapsapchung Chester Comp Club meets on the second Wednesday evening of each month in the Chester area. We’re a small friendly group who meet for a comping chat and to Jane has been a comper for over 25 years. She has exchange entry forms. New members are always welcome. For more information email: written a wide selection of articles for the comping [email protected] press, and has contributed to many comp-related EAST KILBRIDE features in magazines, newspapers and on TV. The East Kilbride Competitions Club meets on the first Monday of each month at The Lee Burn, East Kilbride at 8.15pm. We exchange forms, talk about our wins and help each other with answers. We have an annual trophy for our top winner. We have been scissors, string and those anonymous little bits of metal that look as if they might going for years and we currently have vacancies. We are a small sociable group. Contact be important, like a normal kitchen drawer. Ann on 01355 248287 for more info. ESSEX Before the advent of search engines, finding answers to questions was all part of Comping can be a lonely hobby, but it need not be if you live in Essex. The South East being a comper. I used to spend at least one day a week in the library, with a long Essex Compers’ Group attracts members from all over the county, and meets on the evening of the second Wednesday each month, in Rayleigh. Give this friendly group a list of questions, combing through reference books for the answers. And I know try, with no obligation to join. For further information, contact Dallas Willcox on 01268 of people who invested in a complete Oxford English Dictionary to give them an 774380; email: [email protected] advantage in those “How many words can you make from this phrase” comps. GLASGOW Nowadays answers and word lists can be found with just a click of a mouse! Glasgow Competition Club meets on the second Thursday of the month at Coopers, Great Western Road, Glasgow from 7.00pm. We’re nearly 30 years old and still going Thirty years ago, phone-in comps were almost unheard of. I can still remember strong, and new members are always welcome to come along. Contact Alfie McDiarmid the very first one I entered, trembling with fear of the unknown while trying to at [email protected] or [email protected], phone dictate my address to an answering machine. It paid off though, I won a record 07849 606470 or 01355 244842. token (for younger compers, that’s like an iTunes credit, only harder work to use). GREAT YARMOUTH Phone calls were priced by time of day and distance then, unlike now where a We are a compers club for Great Yarmouth and the surrounding area which meets every promoter can have a non-geographical number that costs the same wherever you 6-8 weeks. We are a very friendly bunch who compare tips and wins, bring any entry forms are and whenever you call, and premium rate calls hadn’t been invented. And of we find and also do a postcard draw. We also have a Facebook group where we can chat online. We usually meet on a Tuesday evening 7- 9pm in Belton. If you would like further course text comps didn’t exist, because practically nobody had a mobile phone. I information please call Sue on 01493 780762 or email: [email protected] can remember the first time I saw one, when some workmen came to fit a prize kitchen. Their phone was the size of a housebrick, and had to stand on a charger LEEDS Leeds Competition Club meets on the second Monday of each month in Leeds city the size of a small briefcase. I thought, “They’ll never catch on!” centre, 7.30-9.30pm. We are a small, friendly group who welcome new members from across Yorkshire. We swap entry forms and general comping info, run our own small From then on, technology moved at a hurricane speed, and with every new way quizzes and raffles and catch up on the latest comping gossip. For further details please of communicating, a new way of comping appeared. Teletext, the Internet, Social call 01937 573496 or email: [email protected]. We look forward to meeting you. Media and now Smart Phones, all have increased the number of ways a comp can MANCHESTER be run and introduced endless variety into our hobby. Who could have dreamed The Manchester Marvels comp club meets every 6-8 weeks at The Woodthorpe Hotel in thirty years ago that one day we’d be able to enter a comp by pointing a phone at Prestwich, Manchester from 7.30-9.30pm. We are a very friendly group and new members a bottle of cider? That we’d be able to enter a photography comp within seconds are always given a warm welcome. We also have a Facebook group for help and support between meetings. For further details please email: [email protected] of taking the photo, instead of waiting for a film to be processed and then sending the picture by post? Or that instead of saving labels and lids, we’d be able to NORTH DORSET prove we’d bought a product simply by typing a code into a website? And most Is anyone interested in starting a local comp club in North Dorset (e.g. Shaftesbury, Gillingham and Sturminster Newton)? This is a very rural and widespread area, however of all, that we’d be able to chat to hundreds of like-minded compers from all over I am interested in starting a club if there is anyone interested. The club would be very the country without travelling to a meeting or buying a stamp, simply by logging informal with a warm welcome to all. Initially we could meet to discuss way forward, in to Chatterbox? but all ideas would be welcome. Please contact: [email protected] OXFORD I’m sure I’d have been reluctant to learn a fraction of what I know about technology Oxford Comping group is looking for new members. We currently meet at 9.30-10.30 if I hadn’t wanted to keep abreast of all the developments in comping, so if anyone on the third Saturday morning of the month in Sainsbury’s coffee shop in Kidlington. It ever criticises your hobby, point out to them how educational it is! is a very informal group, where we chat over coffee/tea, tell of our wins (hopefully), help each other find entry forms and swap them at the meeting, and chat about anything else comp related. If you would like to join us you would be most welcome. Further Pam will be along next month to tell you her comping story, but in the details from: [email protected] meantime, we’d love to hear from YOU! How and why did you start comping, what has it done for you and what changes have you noticed since you started? SOUTHAMPTON If you’d like to share your story, why not post it to the Natterbox section of Southampton Competitions Club meets on the second Thursday of the month in the evening in Chandlers Ford and currently has spaces for new members. For a fun Chatterbox with the subject “My comping story”? evening out with like-minded people, why not join us? For more information email: [email protected] or phone 02380 693952. Have YOU got a comping question you’d like our experts to answer, SOUTH DEVON or a subject you’d like them to tackle? Then get in touch! Their contact Westcountry Winners is a small friendly club and we meet every 4 to 6 weeks in a nice details are at the top of the page. Our Ask The Experts team are ALL current hotel in Ashburton, just outside Newton Abbot. We exchange entry forms, chat about compers, each with decades of experience, and their unrivalled advice appears our wins and have quizzes and a raffle. We are always happy to see new faces and in EVERY issue of Compers News. you would be made very welcome, so do join us. For more details email: wood1nr@ btinternet.com

February 2015 Compers News 5 Di’s tips and advice will help you find and Comping Online win exciting competitions on the web WINNING WIDGETS Giveaway ‘widgets’ are an easy and flexible way for promoters to run prize draws on websites, blogs and Facebook pages. This month, Di explains how to enter giveaways using the two most popular widgets, Rafflecopter and Gleam. Many compers avoid Gleam and how to subscribe. Rafflecopter giveaways, because • Refer friends for extra entries. they don’t really understand them Click this and you’re given a unique - but they’re not as complicated link to share on Facebook, Twitter, as they look! They are a great way G+ etc. For every one of your to run giveaways on blogs - and friends who clicks this and enters promoters are also choosing to the giveaway, you get a bonus entry. use widgets to give away holidays, • Bonus entry. This is to encourage games consoles and computers, you to revisit the blog, click it daily so it’s definitely worth learning to for a bonus entry. use them. You can find Gleam and Rafflecopter giveaways listed at COMPLETING RAFFLECOPTER www.theprizefinder.com/blogs, or ENTRIES simply search Google or Twitter. Rafflecopter is similar to Gleam, but WHICH WIDGET? Examples of giveaways using Rafflecopter (left) and Gleam (right) you need to manually complete the Promoters and bloggers like using social media entries. Rafflecopter and Gleam because the basic Promoters choose from a variety of ways to set • Answer a question. Leave your answer in the plans are free, flexible and offer an easy way to up a widget. You can choose to log in with just widget. administer prize draws - entries are tracked and a name and email address - you don’t need to • Leave a blog post comment. Leave a a random winner is chosen fairly. The widgets have any social media accounts, although that comment, then in the widget leave the name also capture email addresses, so winners can will limit your entries in the draw. It’s easiest you commented with. be contacted directly rather than relying on to log in using a Facebook or Twitter account - • Visit on Facebook. Click ‘Visit us’ then close Facebook messages. Promoters can choose what the promoter will be given access to the email the new window and click ‘I visited’ in the to display at the top of the widget - usually you address you registered with that social network. widget. will see a countdown to the closing date, the total With Gleam, promoters may choose to send an • Follow on Twitter. Click Follow, and a pop up entries in the draw (never let a large number put email each time you complete a task. Below will open where you can click Follow again. you off - in some cases you can earn 100+ entries!), are the most common tasks for Rafflecopter Close this window and type your Twitter and the number of entries YOU have in the draw. and Gleam, and how to complete them. Other username into the widget. Underneath this is the prize, then a list of entry possible tasks include following on Bloglovin’ or • Tweet about the giveaway. Click Tweet, and a tasks. You DON’T have to do all these - usually Tumblr, adding to Google+ circles, posting on a window showing the (editable) tweet text pops only one or two are mandatory, and the rest will Facebook page, sharing a photo on Instagram, up. Click Tweet, and then immediately look for earn you optional bonus entries. Sometimes watching a video and many more. the link to ‘View on Twitter’. Right-click this and completing the first few tasks will ‘unlock’ others. choose ‘copy link address’ then close the window COMPLETING GLEAM ENTRIES and paste the tweet URL into the widget. If Although they are visually similar, many compers • Answer a question. You’ll need to leave your you’re not quick enough to do this, open up prefer Gleam due to the easy one-click entry, answer in the widget - this may involve visiting twitter.com in another window and navigate to compared to Rafflecopter which is more time the sponsor’s website to choose a favourite your profile page, then right click the timestamp consuming. From a promoter’s point of view, product or find the answer. on the tweet and copy the link from there. Rafflecopter allows for thorough checks on the • Comment on this blog post. Scroll down to • Follow on Instagram. There may be a clickable validity of entries, whereas the information leave a comment, then in the widget leave the link, or just a name to follow. Click to follow, supplied by Gleam is limited. Once you’ve logged name you commented with. then close the window and type your Instagram into Gleam or Rafflecopter, it should remember • Visit on Facebook. Click Visit page - when the username in the widget. you when you enter a different giveaway, so you window opens, close it and the green Continue • Bring Your Friends. Rafflecopter offers a don’t have to log in again until your next session. button will now be clickable. maximum of ten bonus entries for referring • Follow on Twitter. Click the green button and friends who go on to enter the giveaway. HOW TO COMMENT ON A BLOG this will happen automatically. • Free Entry. This is to encourage you to revisit Leaving a relevant comment is a common request • Tweet. Click the green button to tweet the blog, click daily for a bonus entry. if the Rafflecopter or Gleam widget is hosted on automatically - hover over the word tweet to a blog. To do this, scroll down and look for ‘leave view the text you’ll be tweeting. TIPS a comment’ or ‘leave a reply’ with an empty box. • Follow on Pinterest. You’ll need to open • Bookmark favourite giveaways into your daily Type your comment into the box - you may Pinterest, click Follow then close the window. folder - daily tweets or sharing referral links need to leave an email address (which won’t be Add your Pinterest name in the widget. can give you lots of extra entries and increase published). If there’s an option to leave a website • Follow on Instagram. Click the green button to your chance of winning considerably. address, leave it blank - this is for bloggers to leave automatically follow. • If the widget doesn’t display, refresh the page. their blog URL. Sometimes there are hundreds of • Subscribe to a YouTube channel. Click the • In some cases, the widget won’t display on a comments on a blog post - to quickly get to the subscribe button, and YouTube will open in blog post and you’ll have to click a line of text bottom of the page to leave yours, use the Cmd another window. If you’re logged in, simply - eg. ‘a Rafflecopter giveaway’ - which will take key and down arrow on a Mac, or tap End on a click Subscribe, close the window and click the you to the Rafflecopter site. This is because PC (use Cmd and up arrow, or Home to return to green Continue button in Gleam. free Wordpress sites don’t allow widgets. the top after commenting). Some blogs moderate • Subscribe to a blog or newsletter. This could comments so yours may not appear immediately. be automatic, or there may be instructions on Good luck with your entries!

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ExtremeWhat’s the most extremeComper measure you have ever taken to enter a competition or win a prize? AWA R DS 28th February 2015 Nominations close: Winner announced: April 2015 issue

Nominations are now open for our coveted True Comper Awards, with EIGHT lucky Compers News members winning an exclusive trip for 2 to London where they’ll be presented with a money-can’t-buy True2015 Comper trophy by the Compers News team! You know you’re a True Comper when… MORE THAN 50 PRIZES MUST BE WON!

If you’ve been reading Compers News for a while, EIGHT MAIN panel from the ‘near miss’ AND COMPERS those words will remind you of a regular column entries across all six categories that used to feature in the magazine – and they’re PRIZE WINNERS after the final closing date. NEWS BADGES the inspiration for our latest big-prize, member- Our EIGHT main winners – FOR OUR only competition. each with a guest – will join A final, eighth winner the Compers News team in will also be selected in a ‘EARLY BIRD’ Later in 2015, we’ll be hosting an exclusive True London on Saturday 17th random draw from ALL ENTRANTS! October 2015 for a day of fun qualifying entries across all Comper Awards event in London for the EIGHT The first FIFTY qualifying and surprises culminating in six categories after the final lucky winners of our competition. Each winner entrants in our True Comper the award of their very own closing date… meaning that – and a guest – will join the Compers News team Awards competition will True Comper trophy. We’ll EVERYONE who enters our in the capital for a day of surprises culminating in each win one of our exclusive also throw in some spending competition can be a winner! the award of their very own True Comper trophy. limited-edition Compers money for the winners to use We’ll also throw in some spending money for the News badges! (Only one towards travel, accommodation winners to use towards travel, accommodation PLUS BONUS badge per person.) or anything else they like to make their day in or anything else they like to London even more memorable! make their day in London PRIZES GALORE! even more memorable! Even if you don’t win one For a chance to win one of our EIGHT money- of our main prizes, we’ll be can’t-buy prizes, all you have to do is nominate There will be ONE winner printing a selection of entries yourself for one (or more!) of our six True Comper for EACH of our six True in the magazine throughout Awards categories. There’ll be one winner for Comper Awards categories. 2015 and anything we each category, plus two ‘wild card’ winners which use will win the sender we’ll select from all six categories after the final A seventh winner will then a £50 cash prize! closing date. be chosen by our judging

8 Compers News February 2015 Could YOU be a winner of one of our coveted True Comper trophies, presented at an exclusive event in London with the Compers News team? True Comper Awards 2015

Each entry you make needs to include a letter or article telling us the full story behind your TRUE COMPER AWARDS SCHEDULE nomination, and at least one photograph. Apart from that, you’re free to make your entry as short Here’s the official list of our nomination categories, and a full timetable of our or as long – with as many photographs – as you True Comper Awards competition – including those all-important closing like… just remember that a panel of judges will dates. Check this schedule carefully to make sure your entries arrive on time! be selecting the main category winners so we suggest making your entry as apt, original and eye- Please note that ALL SIX of our Award Categories are NOW OPEN catching as you can. for entries, with the closing date for each category shown below. 2 Extreme Comper Red Faces What’s the most extreme measure you have ever taken to enter a All Round competition or win a prize? We want to hear about your most embarrassing comping moment. Nominations close: 28th February 2015 Nominations close: 31st March 2015 How to Enter Winner announced: April 2015 issue Winner announced: May 2015 issue the competition

We’ve made it as simple as possible for you to 3 4 enter our True Comper Awards competition. All Thanks For Eyes On The Prize you have to do is choose one of our six award What’s your most memorable prize, and categories and tell us why you should win the The Memory for what reason? Biggest, smallest, best, award in that category. We need a letter or article Tell us about your most heart-warming worst, strangest… we want to hear about it. from you and AT LEAST one photograph to comping moment or prize. illustrate your story. Apart from that, there are Nominations close: 30th April 2015 Nominations close: 31st May 2015 no minimum or maximum word or photo limits, Winner announced: June 2015 issue Winner announced: July 2015 issue or format restrictions – all we suggest is that you make your entry as original and eye-catching as you can to grab our judges’ attention, otherwise it’s completely up to you! 5 6 Luck Be A Lady In It To Win It We’ll be announcing category winners each Describe your luckiest – or unluckiest! Our final category is for your favourite comping month starting with our April issue, which means – comping moment. Maybe you’re just story that doesn’t fit into any of our other that different categories have different closing unlucky generally, and have not yet won categories… or perhaps it would have been a perfect dates. So please ensure you check the Awards a major prize… well, tell us about it and fit in one of the categories that’s already closed. Schedule on this page carefully to make sure your your luck could be about to change! What makes comping such a great hobby for you? entry arrives on time! Nominations close: 30th June 2015 Nominations close: 31st July 2015 Winner announced: August 2015 issue Winner announced: September 2015 issue Send your entry along with the title of the category you’re entering, your full name, address and Compers News membership number to: True Comper Awards, Compers News, PO Box 8 8763, Nottingham NG2 9BS or email via: editor@ 7 compersnews.com (please put TRUE COMPER Wild Card Prize Draw A further winner will be chosen by Our final, eighth winner will be selected in a AWARDS in the subject line). our judging panel from the ‘near RANDOM draw from all qualifying entries miss’ entries across all six categories across all six categories after the final closing If you’re entering by post and would like your after the final closing date. date… meaning that EVERYONE who photos returned, please enclose an SAE. Entries enters our competition can be a winner! must reach us by the closing dates shown on the Winner announced: October 2015 issue Winner announced: October 2015 issue Awards Schedule at the very latest, and you can enter for as many of the six award categories as you like, as often as you like. There’s absolutely Our EIGHT main winners – each with a guest NO limit on entries, although you must make – will join the Compers News team in London sure that you’re a Compers News member both on Saturday 17th October 2015 for a day of at the date of entry AND the final closing date fun and surprises culminating in the award of for your entry to count. Main winners must be their very own True Comper trophy. The prize able to attend our True Compers Awards event includes spending money for the winners to use on Saturday 17th October 2015, otherwise towards travel, accommodation or anything else they will forfeit their prize and another winner they like to make their day in London even more will be chosen. Winners names and counties memorable! The itinerary for this very special day will be published in Compers News after the final closing date. Standard Compers News is still being finalised – watch this space for more competition rules apply. See www.compersnews. details once arrangements have been confirmed. com/terms for full details.

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Carefully count the cash pictured here and write your total on the entry form on page 13. There are no hidden tricks or catches, and every coin and note is at least partly visible. The sender of the first correct entry drawn will win a cheque for the amount shown in the picture. The prize is guaranteed to be won, and if there are no correct entries we’ll randomly draw a winner from all entries received. P u z z l e 1 COUNT THE CASH… AND WIN IT! Puzzle 2 WIN 100 2ND CLASS STAMPS There are two answers in each diagonal; the 1 2 3 4 5 6 last letter of the first is the first letter of the second. The letters in the blue segments, when 7 8 read in order, will spell out the prize word. Write this on the entry form on page 13. 9 10

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5 CASH PRIZES V Starting with the letter given in the grid, fit the 4 2 words listed below the grid to form a word- chain in which the last letter of one word is the 6 1 first of the next. For example, the words PLUM, MAID and DAME would appear as PLUMAIDAME. 4 5 However, when the last letter of a word falls in a space containing a number, switch that letter 3 6 to the other space with the same number and re-start the chain from there. Unscramble the 2 letters in the blue squares to reveal a ‘prisoner’ prize word and then write it on the entry form on page 13. SPOT THE 3 POSTIE and Win a 1 £20 Shopping Voucher CLUES Our CN Postie is hiding somewhere in this month’s AMBUSH FURROW NUGGET TUNDRA YOGURT magazine, find him and you could win a £20 ARDOUR GADGET OUTFOX TURNIP ZIGZAG shopping voucher! Just write the page number BANTAM HIATUS PAN-FRY TYMPAN where you spotted him in the space on the entry CINEMA MALIBU REBUFF UNESCO coupon here, and if you’re this month’s lucky winner our first-class prize will be on its way to you. DRAGON NIPPLE SAMPAN VELVET ERSATZ NORDIC TABARD WET BOB Puzzle 1 (Easy, difficulty rating 0.31) Puzzle 5 64 WIN ONE OF 75261 TWO £25 WAITROSE 841 GIFTCARDS 62 47 The numbers 1-9 should 872 be placed into the grid in such a way that each horizontal 31 95 row and vertical column The numbers in the 271 contains a different digit. highlighted squares - read In addition, each of the nine from top to bottom – will form 19 53 8 blocks of nine smaller squares your prize answer. Write this should contain a different digit. on the entry form on page 13. 48

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In-house Comp Winners Prize Puzzles Entry Form WIN This is the place to look each month to see if you’re a lucky Compers News winner. If you see February 2015 Puzzles your name listed here, please allow up to 8 weeks Fill in the boxes for the competitions and puzzles for delivery of your prize although we’ll try our that you wish to enter and complete your contact best to be much quicker. If you have a query after details clearly. Then send this entry form to: Compers News Puzzles, PO Box 8763, Nottingham NG2 9BS or this time, please email: [email protected] enter online at www.compersnews.com/competitions You can save postage by sending everything for our PO Box 8763 address together with this form in one November 2014 Issue Winners envelope, but please ensure that full postage is paid. Sorry, but we cannot accept unstamped or underpaid envelopes. Puzzle 1 Spot The Postie CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 28th February 2015 £25 Book Token £20 Shopping Voucher Answer: Meagre Answer: Page 3 Title & Full Name Winner: Maureen Bailey, Winner: Karen Capell, Kent Ashton-under-Lyne Address Beat The Ed Puzzle 2 24 x 2nd Class Stamps Count The Cash Winners: Anita Woodbridge, Aylesbury Answer: £34.28 Denise Slater, Montrose Winner: Dolores Thomson, Stranraer Juliet Molloy, Haywards Heath Membership No.

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February 2015 Compers News 13 Listings WHAT OUR LISTINGS FILE SYMBOLS MEAN NEW This is the first time that the listing has appeared in Compers News, so we give February 2015 detailed information about the competition and how to enter. Inside every issue of Compers News you’ll find our unrivalled Listings File – a concise ONGOING This listing has previously appeared in Compers News, so in some cases digest of the very latest competition and prize draw information. only brief information may be included to remind you that the competition is still out there and to carry on entering! For a full, detailed listing you should refer to the issue We give you all the details you need to find and enter every competition and prize shown… remember to use our online library of back issues at www.compersnews.com/ draw listed here, but don’t forget that your Compers News membership package digital if you don’t have your paper copies to hand. includes lots of other services and tools to help you in your quest for prizes. ++ When this symbol appears next to a closing date it means that the date shown VISIT OUR WEBSITE is the FINAL closing date for the competition, but that there are earlier closing dates during the promotion too. There could, for example, be multiple draws (e.g. hourly, daily www.compersnews.com or monthly), or the promotional period might include a final ‘mop-up’ draw for late Crammed with comping advice and all the information you need to make the most entries after the main prizes have been awarded. When you see this symbol, check of your membership. Save time and postage by contacting us via the site, and enter the main listing carefully to ensure you don’t miss out on the earlier draws and prizes! our exclusive monthly competitions and puzzles for free too!

DIGITAL MAGAZINE Prize Draws Quick & Easy www.compersnews.com/digital A quick postcard or plain paper entry is all that’s needed for everything in this Every issue of Compers News is published on our website around 10 days before it section – there’s nothing else to buy or do! Where other entry methods are arrives in the post. Our online edition means no postal delays, no rush to catch early available (e.g. phone, text or online) we list these too, so just enter in the way closing dates, and features extra benefits including a search facility and clickable that’s easiest for you. web links too! There’s also a growing library of back issues – indispensable for tracking down where your prizes have come from! NEW YOURS PUZZLES MAGAZINE Closes: 27th January 2015 CHATTERBOX MESSAGE BOARD Prizes: 1 x Two-night break for 2 to Chester www.compersnews.com/chatterbox Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any Join our interactive online community to chat with like-minded friends, and to email address on a postcard to: Yours Puzzles Competitions No discover the very latest comping news and gossip. See page 39 for more details. 29, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 617 0220 (36p) keying in issue number 29 when requested, WINNING SLOGAN DATABASE text YRP29 followed by a space and then your full name, www.compersnews.com/windex house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or Discover tens of thousands of past winning slogans and get inspiration for your own enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. winning words in our easy-to-search database. Advice: Flamingo

MANAGE YOUR NEW WAITROSE KITCHEN MAGAZINE Closes: 28th January 2015 MEMBERSHIP ONLINE Prizes: 1 x Selection of five beauty and skincare products www.compersnews.com/members Entry: Send your full name, address and phone number on a postcard (make sure that you’re logged in to your account, to: January Beauty Giveaway, Waitrose Kitchen, 136-142 Bramley then click on ‘My Subscription’ at the top of the page.) Road, London W10 6SR. Or email: waitrosekitchen@waitrose. Check and amend your personal details, subscription status, and find the answer to co.uk with ‘January Beauty Giveaway’ in the subject line. a wide range of Customer Service FAQs quickly and easily. Add an email address to Notes: One entry per person your contact details to ensure we can get in touch quickly with any important news, and we’ll even tell you when each new issue goes online so that you can get a head NEW ITV / THIS MORNING & LOOSE WOMEN start with your entries! Closes: 29th January 2015 Prizes: 1 x £40,000 cash, BMW X3 car and a luxury FREE COMPERS WEEKLY ten-night holiday for 5 to Barbados ENEWSLETTER Entry: Send your name and contact phone number on a postcard to: DAY 0115, PO Box 7558, Derby DE1 0NQ. You can also phone www.compersnews.com/compers-weekly Sign up for our free Compers Weekly enewsletter and get bonus comps and offers 0904 161 0123 (£1.54), or text WIN to 82227 (£1.50 + SR) delivered direct to your inbox every week. – phone and text lines close at 5pm on 25th January 2015.

NEW WEIGHT WATCHERS MAGAZINE Closes: 29th January 2015 Prizes: 1 x Five-night trip for 2 to Seville worth more than £1,700 Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any email GET SOCIAL address on a postcard to: Weight Watchers magazine, River You can find Compers News on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, Publishing, PO Box 36, Plymouth PL1 3JY. You can also text and keep up-to-date with our own Compers News blog. WEIGHT1 followed by a space and then your answer, full name, www.facebook.com/compersnews house number and postcode to 85088 (£1 + SR), phone 0905 www.twitter.com/compersnews 652 1406 (£1.02), or enter online at www.wwmagazine.co.uk www.pinterest.com/compersnews Advice: A. Orange www.compersnews.com/blog Notes: One entry per person

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NEW BEST OF BRITISH MAGAZINE Advice: 2,800 Closes: 30th January 2015 Notes: One entry per household Prizes: 10 x Haynes Concorde Manual worth £22 Entry: Send your answer, name and address on a postcard to: Ian Prizes: 2 x Fisher & Paykel Double DishDrawer dishwasher worth £1,499 Moore, Best of British magazine, Haynes Concorde Competition, Entry: Send your answer, full name, address, phone number Room 101, The Perfume Factory, 140 Wales Farm Road, and any email address on a postcard to: The Editor, London W3 6UG. Or email: [email protected] Fisher & Paykel competition, KBB magazine, Congress with ‘Haynes Concorde Competition’ in the subject line. House, Lyon Road, Harrow HA1 2EN. Or enter online Advice: Twice the speed of sound at www.kbbmagazine.com/competitions.htm Notes: One entry per household Advice: 599mm Notes: One entry per household Prizes: 3 x The Second World War in Photographs book Entry: Send your answer, name and address on a postcard to: Prizes: 1 x Your choice of Crosswater bathroom Ian Moore, Best of British magazine, IWM Competition, Room 101, products to the value of £3,000 The Perfume Factory, 140 Wales Farm Road, London W3 6UG. Entry: Send your answer, full name, address, phone number Or email: [email protected] and any email address on a postcard to: The Editor, with ‘IWM Competition’ in the subject line. Crosswater competition, KBB magazine, Congress Advice: Imperial War Museum House, Lyon Road, Harrow HA1 2EN. Or enter online Notes: One entry per household at www.kbbmagazine.com/competitions.htm Advice: 1998 NEW WOMAN’S WEEKLY MAGAZINE Notes: One entry per household Closes: 30th January 2015 Prizes: 1 x 48” LED 3D Smart TV with one-year NEW PÁRAMO PictureBox Films subscription Closes: 31st January 2015 Entry: Send your answer, name and address on a postcard to: Prizes: 1 x One-week walking holiday for 2 to Crete worth over Picturebox/WW04 Competition, PO Box 502, Leicester £1,900 – prize must be taken 5th-12th May 2015 LE94 0AB. You can also phone 0905 652 2940 (£1.02), Entry: Send your answer, full name, address, phone number and any or text WWA followed by a space then your answer, full email address on a postcard to: Páramo RWH Prize Draw, Unit name, house number and postcode to 85088 (£1 + SR) F, Durgates Industrial Estate, Wadhurst TN5 6DF. You can also – phone and text lines close on 27th January 2015. email: [email protected] with ‘RWH Prize Draw’ in Advice: A. Hugh Grant the subject line, or enter online at www.paramo.co.uk/RWH Notes: A selection of Woman’s Weekly magazine competitions can Advice: 4 also be entered online at www.womansweekly.co.uk/win Notes: One entry per household

NEW CONDÉ NAST TRAVELLER MAGAZINE NEW YOUR HOME MAGAZINE Closes: 31st January 2015 Closes: 31st January 2015 Prizes: 1 x Luxury five-night break for 2 at the Prizes: 10 x Pair of Make It and Knit & Stitch It show tickets Rosewood London hotel worth £3,500 (Farnborough, 27th February-1st March 2015) Entry: Send your answer, full name, address and phone number Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard on a postcard to: Where Are You? competition, Condé Nast to: February Knit Show giveaway, Your Home, HBM UK, Traveller, Vogue House, 1 Hanover Square, London W1S 1JU. The Tower, Phoenix Square, Colchester, Essex CO4 9HU You can also email: [email protected], Notes: One entry per person or enter online at www.cntraveller.com/competitions Advice: U Bein Bridge, Amarapura NEW CROSS STITCH CRAZY MAGAZINE Notes: One entry per person Closes: 1st February 2015 Prizes: 4 x Daylight Twist Portable Lamp worth £67 NEW COUNTRY LIVING MAGAZINE Entry: Send your name, address and email address on a postcard Closes: 31st January 2015 to: Daylight lamp 199 giveaway, Cross Stitch Crazy 199, Prizes: 1 x Two-night Cornwall cottage break for 2 9th Floor, Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol BS1 3BN. Entry: Send your answers, name, address and phone number Or text CSC199LAMP followed by a space and then your on a postcard to: CPCNLP14714, Hearst Magazines name, address and email address to 87474 (50p + SR). UK, The Data Solutions Centre, Worksop S80 2RT Notes: One entry per person Advice: 1. Eden Verandas 2. Clearview Stoves 3. Red Letter Days 4. Vintage Apple Crates Prizes: 15 x Pair of Sewing for Pleasure show tickets Notes: One entry per household (Birmingham NEC, 19th-22nd March 2015) Entry: Send your name and address on a postcard to: Show NEW KITCHENS BEDROOMS & BATHROOMS MAGAZINE tickets 199 giveaway, Cross Stitch Crazy 199, 9th Floor, Closes: 31st January 2015 Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol BS1 3BN. Or text Prizes: 3 x Rest Assured Windsor Memory Wool 2800 bed worth £1,069 CSC199SHOW followed by a space and then your name, Entry: Send your answer, full name, address, phone number address and email address to 87474 (50p + SR). and any email address on a postcard to: The Editor, Notes: One entry per person Rest Assured competition, KBB magazine, Congress House, Lyon Road, Harrow HA1 2EN. Or enter online Prizes: 13 x Pair of Knit & Stitch It show tickets at www.kbbmagazine.com/competitions.htm (Farnborough, 27th February-1st March 2015)

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Entry: Send your name and address on a postcard to: Knit & address, name and postal address to 86660 (£2 + SR) Stitch It tickets 199 giveaway, Cross Stitch Crazy 199, 9th – phone and text lines close on 30th January 2015. Floor, Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol BS1 3BN. Or text CSC199STITCH followed by a space and then your NEW DAILY EXPRESS name, address and email address to 87474 (50p + SR). Closes: 3rd February 2015 Notes: One entry per person Prizes: 1 x Complete children’s bedroom set from Room To Grow including bed, mattress, wardrobe and desk, worth £1,929 Prizes: 14 x Set of eight Mouseloft At The Zoo cross stitch kits Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Entry: Send your name and address on a postcard to: Mouseloft to: Room To Grow Competition, PO Box 12581, Sutton kits 199 giveaway, Cross Stitch Crazy 199, 9th Floor, Coldfield B73 9BX. You can also phone 0911 719 0938 Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol BS1 3BN. Or text (£2), or text DXROOM followed by a space and then your CSC199ZOO followed by a space and then your name, email address, name and postal address to 86660 (£2 + address and email address to 87474 (50p + SR). SR) – phone and text lines close on 31st January 2015. Notes: One entry per person NEW SUNDAY EXPRESS Prizes: 1 x Set of three Valentine’s Day-themed Closes: 3rd February 2015 cross stitch kits worth over £55 Prizes: 2 x World Duty Free winter wonder beauty set worth £500 Entry: Send your name and address on a postcard to: Valentine’s Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard kits 199 giveaway, Cross Stitch Crazy 199, 9th Floor, to: World Duty Free Competition, PO Box 12581, Sutton Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol BS1 3BN. Or text Coldfield B73 9BX. You can also phone 0911 719 0596 (£2), CSC199KITS followed by a space and then your name, or text SMAGWORLD followed by a space and then your address and email address to 87474 (50p + SR). email address, name and postal address to 86660 (£2 + Notes: One entry per person SR) – phone and text lines close on 31st January 2015.

Prizes: 4 x Timmy Time ABC cross stitch kit worth £30 NEW TV TIMES MAGAZINE Entry: Send your name and address on a postcard to: Timmy Closes: 3rd February 2015 199 giveaway, Cross Stitch Crazy 199, 9th Floor, Prizes: 1 x £100 cash Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol BS1 3BN. Or text Entry: Send your answer, name and address on a postcard to: CSC199ANCHOR followed by a space and then your name, TV Times Crossword Week 4, PO Box 502, Leicester LE94 address and email address to 87474 (50p + SR). 0AB. You can also phone 0901 609 4507 (£1.22), or text Notes: One entry per person TVTCROSSC followed by a space then your answer, full name, house number and postcode to 85088 (£1 + SR) Prizes: 1 x Vintage Crafts Deluxe Sewing Set – phone and text lines close on 30th January 2015. Entry: Send your answer, name and address on a postcard Advice: Gotham to: Crazy 199 Crossword, Cross Stitch Crazy, 9th Floor, Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol BS1 3BN. Or text NEW HOMES & ANTIQUES MAGAZINE CSC199XWORD followed by a space and then your answer, Closes: 4th February 2015 name, address and email address to 87474 (50p + SR). Prizes: 1 x Personalised colour-matched carpet Advice: Sneaker makeover for your home worth £3,000 Notes: One entry per person. A selection of Cross Entry: Send your answer, name, address and phone number on a Stitch Crazy competitions can also be entered postcard to: Homes & Antiques, Issue 265, Brockway Solar online at www.cross-stitching.com/win Carpet Competition, PO Box 501, Leicester LE94 0AA. Or enter online at www.homesandantiques.com/competitions NEW BONMARCHÉ MAGAZINE Advice: B. 80% wool / 20% nylon Closes: 2nd February 2015 Notes: One entry per person Prizes: 1 x £100 Bonmarché voucher Entry: Send your answer, full name, address and phone number on a postcard to: Bonmarché Crossword Prizes: 1 x Winter’s Moon ‘Verdure’ cushion and Sixties-style lamp competition, Seven, 3-7 Herbal Hill, London EC1R Entry: Send your name, address and phone number 5EJ. Or email: [email protected] on a postcard to: Verdure, Homes & Antiques Advice: Reindeer magazine, PO Box 501, Leicester LE94 0AA Notes: One entry per person. You must hold a Bonmarché Bonus Card Notes: One entry per person to enter this draw, pick up a card for free at any participating NEW HOUSE BEAUTIFUL MAGAZINE Bonmarché fashion store if you don’t already have one, or Closes: 4th February 2015 register online at www.bonmarche.co.uk/page/bonusclub Prizes: 1 x Gorenje Fire Red eco washing machine and NEW DAILY STAR matching tumble dryer, worth £1,000 Closes: 2nd February 2015 Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Prizes: 5 x NYK1 complete gel nail kit worth £300 to: GVHSBN14567, House Beautiful, The Data Solutions Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Centre, Worksop S80 2RT. You can also phone 0905 817 to: NYK1 Nail Competition, PO Box 12581, Sutton Coldfield 2823 (£1.54) or text HBWASH followed by a space and B73 9BX. You can also phone 0911 719 0922 (£2), or text then your name and address to 87088 (£1.50 + SR) – EXTRANYK1 followed by a space and then your email phone and text lines close on 31st January 2015.

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Prizes: 1 x Grohe Blue Chilled & Sparkling Duo tap worth £2,056 DAY 0215, PO Box 7558, Derby DE1 0NQ. You can also phone Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard 0904 161 9999 (£1.54), or text CASH to 82336 (£1.50 + SR) to: GVHSBN14568, House Beautiful, The Data Solutions – phone and text lines close at 5pm on 1st February 2015. Centre, Worksop S80 2RT. You can also phone 0905 817 2806 (£1.54) or text HBGROHE followed by a space and NEW LOVE CRAFTING MAGAZINE then your name and address to 87088 (£1.50 + SR) – Closes: 6th February 2015 phone and text lines close on 31st January 2015. Prizes: 5 x Sewing Machine Daylight Lamp worth £30 Entry: Send your name and address on a postcard to: Sewing Prizes: 10 x Pure Evoke digital radio Machine Lamp, Giveaways, Love Crafting January issue, Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Immediate Media Co, 9th Floor, Tower House, Fairfax Street, to: GVHSBN14569, House Beautiful, The Data Solutions Bristol BS1 3BN. Or email: [email protected] Centre, Worksop S80 2RT. You can also phone 0905 817 with ‘Sewing Machine Lamp Giveaway’ in the subject line. 2805 (£1.54) or text HBPURE followed by a space and Notes: One entry per person then your name and address to 87088 (£1.50 + SR) – phone and text lines close on 31st January 2015. Prizes: 6 x Flower Power Patchwork book worth £16 Entry: Send your name and address on a postcard to: Flower Power Prizes: 1 x Luxury overnight break for 2 at The Arch hotel in London Patchwork Book, Giveaways, Love Crafting January issue, Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Immediate Media Co, 9th Floor, Tower House, Fairfax Street, to: GVHSBN14570, House Beautiful, The Data Solutions Bristol BS1 3BN. Or email: [email protected] with Centre, Worksop S80 2RT. You can also phone 0905 817 ‘Flower Power Patchwork Book Giveaway’ in the subject line. 2821 (£1.54) or text HBARCH followed by a space and Notes: One entry per person then your name and address to 87088 (£1.50 + SR) – phone and text lines close on 31st January 2015. Prizes: 14 x Pair of Stitching, Sewing & Quilting show tickets (Glasgow, 5th-8th March 2015) worth £19 NEW CHANNEL 4 / DEAL OR NO DEAL Entry: Send your name and address on a postcard to: Exhibition Closes: 5th February 2015 Tickets, Giveaways, Love Crafting January issue, Immediate Prizes: 1 x Three holidays for 2 to Paris, New York Media Co, 9th Floor, Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol and Barbados, plus £5,000 cash BS1 3BN. Or email: [email protected] with Entry: Send your name and contact phone number on a postcard to: ‘Exhibition Tickets Giveaway’ in the subject line. DEAL 30, PO Box 67401, London N8 1EG. Or text DEAL 30 to 84455 Notes: One entry per person (£2 + SR) – text line closes at 10am on 2nd February 2015.

Prizes: 4 x Mettler thread gift pack NEW CHANNEL 5 / MOVIES Closes: 5th February 2015 Entry: Send your name and address on a postcard to: Mettler Prizes: 1 x Seven-night holiday for 2 to the Cayman Thread, Giveaways, Love Crafting January issue, Immediate Islands with £1,000 spending money Media Co, 9th Floor, Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol Entry: Send your name and contact phone number on a postcard to: BS1 3BN. Or email: [email protected] MOVIES 1, PO Box 7557, Derby DE1 0NP. Or text MOVIE to 65515 with ‘Mettler Thread Giveaway’ in the subject line. (£1.50 + SR) – text line closes at midday on 2nd February 2015. Notes: One entry per person

NEW DAILY EXPRESS Prizes: 7 x First Sewing book worth £8 Closes: 5th February 2015 Entry: Send your answer, name and address on a postcard Prizes: 1 x Home entertainment system worth to: Prize Crossword, Love Crafting January, Immediate £1,000 and The Snow Queen DVD Media Co, 9th Floor, Tower House, Fairfax Street, Bristol Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard BS1 3BN. Or email: [email protected] to: Snow Queen Competition, PO Box 12581, Sutton with ‘January Prize Crossword’ in the subject line. Coldfield B73 9BX. You can also phone 0911 719 0832 Advice: Pullover (£2), or text DXQUEEN followed by a space and then your Notes: One entry per person email address, name and postal address to 86660 (£2 + SR) – phone and text lines close on 2nd February 2015. NEW SIMPLY HOMEMADE MAGAZINE Closes: 6th February 2015 NEW HAIR MAGAZINE Prizes: 1 x Simplicity sewing hamper worth £530 Closes: 5th February 2015 Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and Prizes: 1 x Seven-night holiday for 2 at the Verandah Resort and any email address on a postcard to: SH51 Simplicity, Spa in Antigua worth £2,000 (NB – flights NOT included) Practical Publishing, Suite G2, St Christopher House, Entry: Send your answer, name, address and phone number 217 Wellington Road South, Stockport SK2 6NG on a postcard to: Hair magazine, Freebournes House, Advice: A. Sewing patterns Freebournes Road, Witham, Essex CM8 3US. Or Notes: One entry per person email: [email protected] Advice: b) Devil’s Bridge Prizes: 1 x Bumper bundle of crafting books worth £500 Entry: Send your name, address, phone number and any email NEW ITV / THIS MORNING & LOOSE WOMEN address on a postcard to: SH51 Great Book Giveaway, Closes: 5th February 2015 Practical Publishing, Suite G2, St Christopher House, Prizes: 1 x £54,321 cash 217 Wellington Road South, Stockport SK2 6NG Entry: Send your name and contact phone number on a postcard to: Notes: One entry per person

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Prizes: 1 x Floss & Mischief necklace and brooch sampler kits, 2 x Priory NEW CHANNEL 5 / NEIGHBOURS Square fat-quarter fabric bundle, 3 x A Square A Day crochet Closes: 12th February 2015 book, 12 x pair of Knit & Stitch It show tickets (Farnborough, Prizes: 1 x £10,000 cash 27th February-1st March 2015), 3 x set of Storey How-To craft Entry: Send your name and contact phone number on a books, 1 x six skeins of Artesano Aran yarn, 1 x Papermania postcard to: NEIGHBOURS 1, PO Box 7557, Derby DE1 crafting bundle, 5 x pair of Pony’s Rosewood knitting needles 0NP. Or text NEIGHBOURS to 65515 (£1.50 + SR) – Entry: For each of the above prizes you’d like to win, send your text line closes at midday on 9th February 2015.

name, address, phone number and any email address on a NEW DAILY EXPRESS separate postcard to: (Name of item you want to win), SH51 Closes: 12th February 2015 Giveaways, Practical Publishing, Suite G2, St Christopher Prizes: 4 x Doro Liberto 820 smartphone House, 217 Wellington Road South, Stockport SK2 6NG Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Notes: One entry per person per prize. A selection of Simply to: Doro Phone Competition, PO Box 12581, Sutton Homemade competitions and giveaways can also Coldfield B73 9BX. You can also phone 0911 719 0532 be entered online at www.ppjump.co.uk/sh51 (£2), or text DXPHONE followed by a space and then your email address, name and postal address to 86660 (£2 + NEW SUNDAY EXPRESS SR) – phone and text lines close on 9th February 2015. Closes: 7th February 2015 Prizes: 2 x £500 John Lewis gift voucher NEW FICTION FEAST MAGAZINE Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Closes: 12th February 2015 to: John Lewis Vouchers Competition, PO Box 12581, Sutton Prizes: 1 x £500 cash Coldfield B73 9BX. You can also phone 0911 719 0541 (£2), Entry: Send your answer, name and address on a postcard to: or text SMAGJOHN followed by a space and then your Fiction Feast 2, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also email address, name and postal address to 86660 (£2 + phone 0901 022 0661 (26p) keying in issue number 2 when SR) – phone and text lines close on 4th February 2015. requested, text FIC2 followed by a space and then your full name, house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + NEW DAILY EXPRESS SR), or enter online at www.takeabreak.co.uk/competitions Closes: 10th February 2015 Advice: Seduction Prizes: 1 x LG Smart 3D Home Cinema system and Planes 2: Fire & Rescue Blu-ray Prizes: 10 x Red Rose, White Rose book by Joanna Hickson Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Entry: Send your name and address on a postcard to: Fiction to: Planes 2 & Home Entertainment Competition, PO Box Feast / Red Rose, White Rose Giveaway, H Bauer 12581, Sutton Coldfield B73 9BX. You can also phone 0911 719 Publishing, PO Box 14369, London NW1 7NY 0844 (£2), or text DXPLANES followed by a space and then your email address, name and postal address to 86660 (£2 Prizes: 10 x The Girl in the Photograph book by Kate Riordan + SR) – phone and text lines close on 7th February 2015. Entry: Send your name and address on a postcard to: Fiction Feast / The Girl in the Photograph Giveaway, H Bauer NEW FATE & FORTUNE MAGAZINE Publishing, PO Box 14369, London NW1 7NY Closes: 10th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x Four tickets to see Sally Morgan live at a venue of your Prizes: 10 x The Life I Left Behind book by Colette McBeth choice, signed copy of her latest book and £300 cash, 12 x pair Entry: Send your name and address on a postcard to: Fiction of tickets to see Sally Morgan live at a venue of your choice Feast / The Life I Left Behind Giveaway, H Bauer Entry: Send your answer, name and address on a postcard to: Publishing, PO Box 14369, London NW1 7NY FAF2 Sally Morgan Competition, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 022 0650 (39p) keying NEW SUDOKU SELECTION MAGAZINE Closes: 12th February 2015 in issue number 2 when requested, text FAFCOMP2 Prizes: 1 x £1,000 cash followed by a space and then your full name, house number, Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or enter online email address on a postcard to: Sudoku Selection Comp 1, at www.fateandfortunemagazine.co.uk/competitions PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 Advice: Four 617 0227 (36p) keying in issue number 1 when requested, text SUD1 followed by a space and then your full name, house NEW SPIRIT & DESTINY MAGAZINE number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or enter Closes: 10th February 2015 online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. Prizes: 1 x Four-night detox and yoga retreat for 2 in Lincolnshire or Advice: 276345819 West Sussex plus £500 cash towards travel and other expenses Entry: Send your answer, name and address on a postcard to: Spirit NEW TAKE A BREAK’S SU-DOKU MAGAZINE & Destiny Platinum Healing Competition, PO Box 503, Leicester Closes: 12th February 2015 LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 030 8388 (26p) keying in issue Prizes: 1 x £1,000 cash number 2 when requested, text SP2 followed by a space and then Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any your full name, address, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + email address on a postcard to: TaB’s Su-doku Comp 1, PO SR), or enter online at www.spiritanddestiny.co.uk/competitions Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 617 Advice: Kate Tyler 0226 (36p) keying in issue number 1 when requested, text

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SUT1 followed by a space and then your full name, house Prizes: 1 x Six-week Speedflex Exercise Experience number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or enter and health assessment, worth £300 online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Advice: 358412769 to: healthy / Speedflex, River Publishing, PO Box 36, Plymouth PL1 2YU. Or text HEALTHY4 followed by a space NEW TAKE A BREAK’S SU-DOKU KILLER MAGAZINE then your name and address to 85088 (£1 + SR). Closes: 12th February 2015 Notes: One entry per person. A selection of healthy Prizes: 1 x £1,000 cash magazine competitions can also be entered Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any online at www.healthycomps.co.uk email address on a postcard to: TaB’s Su-doku Killer Comp 1, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 NEW HEALTHY MAGAZINE / H&B REWARDS FOR LIFE 617 0228 (36p) keying in issue number 1 when requested, Closes: 13th February 2015 text SDK1 followed by a space and then your full name, house Prizes: 3 x Six-month supply of Nourkrin hair growth supplement number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or enter Entry: Send your name, address, phone number and Holland & online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. Barrett Rewards For Life card number on a postcard to: Advice: 685497231 healthy / Nourkrin, River Publishing, PO Box 36, Plymouth PL1 2YU. You can also phone 0905 652 1429 (£1.02), or text NEW DAILY EXPRESS HEALTHY6 followed by a space then your name, address Closes: 13th February 2015 and Rewards For Life number to 85088 (£1 + SR). Prizes: 30 x Pair of tickets to see Sing-a-long-a Sound of Notes: One entry per person Music at a venue near you – see www.singalonga.net /sound-of-music for tour schedule Prizes: 1 x Shakespeare’s Globe Gift Experience for 2 worth £71, 5 x Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard pair of Shakespeare’s Globe exhibition tickets worth £27 to: Sound of Music Competition, PO Box 12581, Sutton Entry: Send your name, address, phone number and Holland & Coldfield B73 9BX. You can also phone 0911 719 0908 Barrett Rewards For Life card number on a postcard to: (£2), or text DXSOUND followed by a space and then your healthy / Globe, River Publishing, PO Box 36, Plymouth PL1 email address, name and postal address to 86660 (£2 + 2YU. You can also phone 0905 652 6222 (£1.02), or text SR) – phone and text lines close on 10th February 2015. HEALTHWIN1 followed by a space then your name, address and Rewards For Life number to 85088 (£1 + SR). NEW HEALTHY MAGAZINE Notes: One entry per person Closes: 13th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x Seven-night all-inclusive health and wellbeing Prizes: 2 x Three-day MyDetoxDiet raw juice cleanse worth £135 holiday for 2 to St Lucia worth £3,500 Entry: Send your name, address, phone number and Holland & Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and Barrett Rewards For Life card number on a postcard to: any email address on a postcard to: healthy / St Lucia healthy / Detox, River Publishing, PO Box 36, Plymouth PL1 competition, River Publishing, PO Box 36, Plymouth PL1 2YU. You can also phone 0905 652 6223 (£1.02), or text 2YU. You can also phone 0905 652 1428 (£1.02), or text HEALTHWIN2 followed by a space then your name, address HEALTHY5 followed by a space then your answer, full name, and Rewards For Life number to 85088 (£1 + SR). house number and postcode to 85088 (£1 + SR). Notes: One entry per person Advice: A. The Caribbean Notes: One entry per person Prizes: 3 x Nordic Walking UK fitness package Entry: Send your name, address, phone number and Holland & Prizes: 1 x Eighteen-month supply of Ohso probiotic chocolate worth £287 Barrett Rewards For Life card number on a postcard to: Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a healthy / Nordic, River Publishing, PO Box 36, Plymouth postcard to: healthy / Ohso, River Publishing, PO Box 36, PL1 2YU. You can also phone 0905 652 6224 (£1.02), or text Plymouth PL1 2YU. Or text HEALTHY1 followed by a space HEALTHWIN3 followed by a space then your name, address then your name and address to 85088 (£1 + SR). and Rewards For Life number to 85088 (£1 + SR). Notes: One entry per person Notes: One entry per person

Prizes: 5 x Pair of tickets to see Blood Brothers on its UK tour, worth £60 Prizes: 10 x Four-week Energie gym membership and Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard personal training plan, worth £100 to: healthy / Blood Brothers, River Publishing, PO Box 36, Entry: Send your name, address, phone number and Holland & Plymouth PL1 2YU. Or text HEALTHY2 followed by a space Barrett Rewards For Life card number on a postcard to: then your name and address to 85088 (£1 + SR). healthy / Energie, River Publishing, PO Box 36, Plymouth Notes: One entry per person PL1 2YU. You can also phone 0905 652 6225 (£1.02), or text HEALTHWIN4 followed by a space then your name, address Prizes: 1 x L’Equip RPM Professional Blender worth £299 and Rewards For Life number to 85088 (£1 + SR). Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a Notes: One entry per person. A selection of healthy / Rewards postcard to: healthy / L’Equip, River Publishing, PO Box For Life competitions can also be entered online at www. 36, Plymouth PL1 2YU. Or text HEALTHY3 followed by a healthycomps.co.uk. You must hold a Rewards For Life card to space then your name and address to 85088 (£1 + SR). enter these draws, pick up a card for free at any participating Notes: One entry per person Holland & Barrett store if you don’t already have one.

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NEW CHANNEL 5 / CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER name, house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), Closes: 19th February 2015 or enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. Prizes: 1 x £20,000 cash Advice: Kelly Holmes Entry: Send your name and contact phone number on a postcard to: CBB, PO Box 7557, Derby DE1 0NP. Or text CBB to 65515 (£1.50 NEW TAKE A BREAK MINI PUZZLE MIX COLLECTION + SR) – text line closes at midday on 16th February 2015. Closes: 19th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x £750 cash NEW DAILY EXPRESS Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any email Closes: 19th February 2015 address on a postcard to: Mini Puzzle Mix Collection Competition Prizes: 1 x Year’s free dining for 2 at Viva Brazil (one meal per month No 46, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone for a year at any of the chain’s restaurants in Liverpool, Cardiff, 0901 617 0230 (36p) keying in issue number 46 when requested, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and coming soon to Birmingham) text MPM46 followed by a space and then your full name, Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or to: Viva Brazil Competition, PO Box 12581, Sutton Coldfield enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. B73 9BX. You can also phone 0911 719 0505 (£2), or Advice: Parade text DXVIVA followed by a space and then your email address, name and postal address to 86660 (£2 + SR) NEW TAKE A BREAK MINI SU-DOKU COLLECTION – phone and text lines close on 16th February 2015. Closes: 19th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x £750 cash NEW TAKE A BREAK MINI ARROWWORDS COLLECTION Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any email Closes: 19th February 2015 address on a postcard to: Mini Su-doku Collection Competition Prizes: 1 x £750 cash No 46, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any 0901 617 0231 (36p) keying in issue number 46 when requested, email address on a postcard to: Mini Arrowwords Collection text MSK46 followed by a space and then your full name, Competition No 34, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or also phone 0901 617 0236 (36p) keying in issue number 34 when enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. requested, text MAR34 followed by a space and then your full Advice: 315246 name, house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. NEW TAKE A BREAK MINI WORDSEARCH COLLECTION Advice: Hamster Closes: 19th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x £750 cash NEW TAKE A BREAK MINI CODEBREAKERS COLLECTION Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any Closes: 19th February 2015 email address on a postcard to: Mini Wordsearch Collection Prizes: 1 x £750 cash Competition No 46, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any also phone 0901 617 0233 (36p) keying in issue number 46 when email address on a postcard to: Mini Codebreakers Collection requested, text MWS46 followed by a space and then your full Competition No 46, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can name, house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), also phone 0901 617 0232 (36p) keying in issue number 46 when or enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. requested, text MCB46 followed by a space and then your full Advice: Bannister name, house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. NEW TAKE A BREAK MINI WORDSEARCH LITE MAGAZINE Advice: Lupin Closes: 19th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x £750 cash NEW TAKE A BREAK MINI CROSSWORD COLLECTION Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any email Closes: 19th February 2015 address on a postcard to: Mini Wordsearch Lite Competition No Prizes: 1 x £750 cash 46, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any 617 0234 (36p) keying in issue number 46 when requested, email address on a postcard to: Mini Crossword Collection text MWL46 followed by a space and then your full name, Competition No 46, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or also phone 0901 617 0235 (36p) keying in issue number 46 when enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. requested, text MXW46 followed by a space and then your full Advice: Ironing board name, house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. NEW TAKE A BREAK WINTER PUZZLE COLLECTION Advice: Ratchet Closes: 20th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x £500 cash NEW TAKE A BREAK MINI HIDE’N’SEEK WORDSEARCH MAGAZINE Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any Closes: 19th February 2015 email address on a postcard to: Winter Puzzle Collection, PO Prizes: 1 x £750 cash Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 617 Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any 0221 (36p) keying in issue number 49 when requested, text email address on a postcard to: Mini Hide’n’Seek Wordsearch SPC49 followed by a space and then your full name, house Competition No 16, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or enter also phone 0901 617 0238 (36p) keying in issue number 16 when online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions requested, text MHS16 followed by a space and then your full Advice: Snowdrop

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NEW CHANNEL 5 / DRAMA NEW TAKE A BREAK CROSSWORDS COLLECTION MAGAZINE Closes: 26th February 2015 Closes: 26th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x £10,000 cash Prizes: 1 x £5,000 cash Entry: Send your name and contact phone number on a postcard to: Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any DRAMA 1, PO Box 7557, Derby DE1 0NP. Or text DRAMA to 65515 email address on a postcard to: Crosswords Collection no (£1.50 + SR) – text line closes at midday on 23rd February 2015. 1, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 617 0244 (36p) keying in issue number 1 when requested, NEW DAILY STAR text JXWC1 followed by a space and then your full name, Closes: 26th February 2015 house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or Prizes: 1 x Luxury three-night break for 2 to Oxford worth £1,500 enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Advice: Deodorant to: Oxford Break Competition, PO Box 12581, Sutton Coldfield B73 9BX. You can also phone 0911 719 0944 (£2), NEW TAKE A BREAK HIDE’N’SEEK WORDSEARCH MAGAZINE or text EXTRAOXFORD followed by a space and then your Closes: 26th February 2015 email address, name and postal address to 86660 (£2 + Prizes: 1 x £5,000 cash SR) – phone and text lines close on 23rd February 2015. Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any email address on a postcard to: Hide’n’Seek Wordsearch, Competition NEW TAKE A BREAK ARROWWORDS MAGAZINE no 12, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone Closes: 26th February 2015 0901 617 0245 (36p) keying in issue number 12 when requested, Prizes: 1 x £5,000 cash text JHWS12 followed by a space and then your full name, Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or email address on a postcard to: Arrowwords Competitions No enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. 13, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 Advice: The Golden Temple 617 0240 (36p) keying in issue number 13 when requested, text JARR13 followed by a space and then your full name, NEW TAKE A BREAK PICTURE ARROWWORDS MAGAZINE house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or Closes: 8th January 2015 enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. Prizes: 1 x £5,000 cash Advice: Teapot Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any email address on a postcard to: Picture Arrowwords No 13, NEW TAKE A BREAK CODEBREAKERS MAGAZINE PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 Closes: 26th February 2015 617 0249 (36p) keying in issue number 13 when requested, Prizes: 1 x £5,000 cash text JPAR13 followed by a space and then your full name, Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or email address on a postcard to: Codebreakers Competitions No enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. 13, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 Advice: Paxman 617 0241 (36p) keying in issue number 13 when requested, text JCOB13 followed by a space and then your full name, NEW TAKE A BREAK PUZZLE SELECTION MAGAZINE house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or Closes: 26th February 2015 enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. Prizes: 1 x £5,000 cash Advice: Banish Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any email address on a postcard to: Puzzle Selection Competitions No NEW TAKE A BREAK CODEBREAKERS COLLECTION MAGAZINE 12, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 Closes: 26th February 2015 617 0243 (36p) keying in issue number 12 when requested, Prizes: 1 x £5,000 cash text JTPS12 followed by a space and then your full name, Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or email address on a postcard to: Codebreakers Collection enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. Competitions No 1, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can Advice: Worked as mime artists also phone 0901 617 0242 (36p) keying in issue number 1 when requested, text JCBC1 followed by a space and then your full NEW TAKE A BREAK WORDSEARCH MAGAZINE name, house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), Closes: 26th February 2015 or enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. Prizes: 1 x £5,000 cash Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any Advice: Review email address on a postcard to: Wordsearch Competitions No NEW TAKE A BREAK CRISS CROSS COLLECTION MAGAZINE 12, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 Closes: 26th February 2015 617 0246 (36p) keying in issue number 12 when requested, Prizes: 1 x £5,000 cash text JWOR12 followed by a space and then your full name, Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any email house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or address on a postcard to: Criss Cross Collection, Competitions enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. no 1, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also phone 0901 Advice: Arrange airport parking 617 0248 (36p) keying in issue number 1 when requested, NEW TAKE A BREAK WORDSEARCHES COLLECTION MAGAZINE text JCRX1 followed by a space and then your full name, Closes: 26th February 2015 house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), or Prizes: 1 x £5,000 cash enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number and any Advice: Andy Murray

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email address on a postcard to: Wordsearches Collection issue Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard 1 competition, PO Box 503, Leicester LE94 0AD. You can also to: Prima / Pixie Footwear, GVPRAL14756, The Data Solutions phone 0901 617 0247 (36p) keying in issue number 1 when Centre, Worksop S80 2RT. You can also phone 0905 817 requested, text JWOC1 followed by a space and then your full 2749 (£1.54) or text PRIMAGIVE4 followed by a space name, house number, postcode and answer to 86611 (35p + SR), then your name and address to 87088 (£1.50 + SR). or enter online at www.puzzlemagazines.co.uk/competitions. Notes: One entry per person Advice: Laurence Olivier Prizes: 1 x £50 cash NEW MORRISONS MAGAZINE Entry: Send your answer, name, address and phone Closes: 28th February 2015 number on a postcard to: Prima Extra Puzzles / Prizes: 1 x Seven-night holiday for 4 to Tuscany worth £5,920 PUPRAL14757, The Data Solutions Centre, Worksop Entry: Send your answer, name, address, phone number S80 2RT. Or phone 0901 609 4224 (£1.22). and any email address on a postcard to: Morrisons Advice: Sapphire magazine / Tuscany, PO Box 36, Plymouth PL1 2YU Notes: One entry per person Advice: A. Florence Notes: One entry per person Prizes: 1 x £50 cash Entry: Send your answer, name, address and phone Prizes: 2 x Amoy kitchenware and product hamper worth £250 number on a postcard to: Prima Extra Puzzles / Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard to: PUPRAL14758, The Data Solutions Centre, Worksop Morrisons magazine / Amoy, PO Box 36, Plymouth PL1 2YU S80 2RT. Or phone 0901 609 4225 (£1.22). Notes: One entry per person Advice: Embrace Notes: One entry per person Prizes: 5 x Selection of Eisberg alcohol-free wines and a range of pampering products Prizes: 1 x £50 cash Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard to: Entry: Send your answer, name, address and phone Morrisons magazine / Eisberg, PO Box 36, Plymouth PL1 2YU number on a postcard to: Prima Extra Puzzles / Notes: One entry per person PUPRAL14759, The Data Solutions Centre, Worksop S80 2RT. Or phone 0901 609 4226 (£1.22). Prizes: 5 x Mixed case of McGuigan wines Advice: Amethysts Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard to: Notes: One entry per person. Although the official closing date for Morrisons magazine / McGuigan, PO Box 36, Plymouth PL1 2YU all of these Prima magazine competitions is 28th February Notes: One entry per person. A selection of Morrisons 2015, they sometimes – but not always – allow extra time magazine competitions can also be entered for postal entries to arrive. However, to avoid confusion and online at www.morrisons.com/magazine because of inconsistencies with some of the dates, we’ve retained the same closing date for all entry routes. NEW PRIMA MAGAZINE Closes: 28th February 2015 NEW YOUR HOME MAGAZINE Prizes: 1 x Two-night spa break for 2 at Whittlebury Closes: 28th February 2015 Hall in Northamptonshire worth £1,000 Prizes: 5 x Cherith Harrison ‘Birds’ tote bag Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a to: Prima / Whittlebury Hall, GVPRAL14753, The Data postcard to: Your Home February Bag Giveaway, HBM Solutions Centre, Worksop S80 2RT. You can also phone 0905 UK, The Tower, Phoenix Square, Colchester CO4 9HU 817 2746 (£1.54) or text PRIMAGIVE1 followed by a space Notes: One entry per person then your name and address to 87088 (£1.50 + SR). Notes: One entry per person NEW ITV FOOTBALL Closes: 12th May 2015 Prizes: 1 x Twelve-month bespoke interactive fitness Prizes: 1 x £25,000 cash, trips for 2 to Berlin and Warsaw to programme from Workout In, worth over £1,000 see the UEFA Champions League and Europa League Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard 2015 finals, and a pair of HTC One phones to: Prima / Workout In, GVPRAL14754, The Data Solutions Entry: Send your name and contact phone number on a postcard to: Centre, Worksop S80 2RT. You can also phone 0905 817 CEL 1415, PO Box 7558, Derby DE1 0NQ. Or text GOAL to 82090 2747 (£1.54) or text PRIMAGIVE2 followed by a space (£1.50 + SR) – all entry routes close at 5pm on 12th May 2015. then your name and address to 87088 (£1.50 + SR). ONGOING STAPLES Notes: One entry per person Closes: 30th October 2015 ++ Prizes: 12 x £500 Staples Gift Certificate Prizes: 20 x Connell & Todd framed print of your choice worth up to £50 Entry: Hand-write your name, address, phone number and date of birth Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard on a ‘3x5’ piece of paper (we assume they mean inches rather to: Prima / Connell & Todd, GVPRAL14755, The Data Solutions than centimetres!) and send in a stamped envelope to: Staples Centre, Worksop S80 2RT. You can also phone 0905 817 Customer Survey Prize Draw, Westfields, London Road, High 2748 (£1.54) or text PRIMAGIVE3 followed by a space Wycombe HP11 1HA. You can also enter online at www.staples- then your name and address to 87088 (£1.50 + SR). survey.co.uk if you have a Staples till receipt inviting you to do Notes: One entry per person so – in this case you’ll need to input codings from the receipt. Notes: One entry per person per day. There are twelve monthly draws Prizes: 2 x Pixie Footwear Poppins bag and pair of Ruby knee-high wedge until the final closing date, each with one prize to be won. Each boots, worth £110, 8 x pair of Izzy ankle boots worth £65 entry will go into one draw, for the month it is received, only.

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enter this draw – you’ll receive two chances in the draw for Purchase Needed New This Month each entry you make with a purchase, and a single chance You need to buy something to enter the comps in this section – just follow our if you enter without inputting purchase information. instructions. If a free ‘No Purchase Necessary’ (NPN) option is offered, we’ll give you all the details. Northern Ireland readers should check the T&Cs of any comps NEW BP FUEL in this category that they wish to enter, as legal differences mean that NI-only Closes: 2nd February 2015 entry restrictions and/or free entry instructions can sometimes apply. Prizes: 4 x One million Nectar points (worth £5,000), IMPORTANT! Promoters are entitled to ask for proof of purchase for any comp 1,000,000 x 25, 50, 100, 250 or 500 Nectar points listed in this section, and an increasing number are now doing so. Therefore, Type: Swipe to win we strongly suggest that you keep your original codes, packaging, till receipts Entry: Purchase one litre or more of regular grade, LPG or BP Ultimate etc. safe as they may be needed to claim a prize. If you enter without making a fuel at a participating BP petrol station between 6th January and purchase, or retaining proof of purchase, then you do so entirely at your own risk. 2nd February 2015 inclusive, and get your Nectar card swiped NEW ANCHOR BUTTER at the time of purchase for automatic entry into the promotion. Closes: 31st January 2015 Prizes: 3 x Prestige toaster NEW TESCO / GO AHEAD Type: Prize draw Closes: 4th February 2015 Entry: Enter the unique code from any promotional Prizes: 10 x £250 to treat yourself to a spa day ‘Rewards Club’ Anchor Butter pack online at Type: Swipe to win www.anchordairy.co.uk/gifts (click on ‘Prizes’). Entry: Purchase any Go Ahead product at a participating Tesco store between 14th January and 4th February 2015 NEW KENCO COFFEE inclusive, and get your Clubcard swiped at the time Closes: 31st January 2015 ++ of purchase for automatic entry into the draw. Prizes: 16 x Year’s supply of Kenco Millicano coffee Notes: One entry per Clubcard account Type: Prize draw Entry: Enter the unique code from any promotional ‘Rewards Club’ Kenco NEW KENCO COFFEE coffee pack online at www.mykenco.com (click on ‘Prize Draw’). Closes: 6th February 2015 Notes: There are 4 weekly draws until the final closing Prizes: 1 x £500 Canopy & Stars holiday voucher date, each with 4 prizes to be won. Type: Prize draw Entry: Enter the unique code from any promotional ‘Rewards Club’ Kenco NEW POUNDLAND coffee pack online at www.mykenco.com (click on ‘Prize Draw’). Closes: 31st January 2015 Prizes: 5 x iPad Mini, 5 x pair of Wembley Stadium Tour tickets, 5 x NEW PETS AT HOME / EUKANUBA DOG Cadbury hamper, 5 x Merlin Annual Pass, 5 x DAB radio, 5 x year’s Closes: 12th February 2015 supply of crisps, 13 x iPad, 13 x Xbox One, 1,000 x £25 cash Prizes: 5,000 x Pair of Crufts 2015 tickets Type: Prize draw Type: Swipe to win Entry: Spend £4 or more on any ‘Big Giveaway’ promotional Entry: Cut out the entry coupon inside issue 8 of My VIP magazine products at a participating Poundland store between (Winter 2014 edition), available at participating Pets at 1st-31st January 2015 inclusive and then complete the Home stores. Then purchase any Eukanuba Dog product entry form online at www.poundland.co.uk/giveaway at a Pets at Home store between 24th November 2014 Notes: One entry per person. You can find a full list of and 12th February 2015 inclusive, and get both the entry products included in the promotion at www.poundland.co.uk coupon and your Pets at Home VIP card swiped at the /big-giveaway/big-giveaway-prize-draw time of purchase for automatic entry into the draw. NEW WAITROSE / MARTELL COGNAC Notes: One entry per VIP club member Closes: 31st January 2015 NEW PINK LADY APPLES Prizes: 12 x Dinner Party Masterclass for 2 at the Closes: 12th February 2015 Waitrose Cookery School in London on 18th April Prizes: 10 x Two-night romantic weekend for 2 to either 2015, including £100 travel allowance Paris, Rome, Bruges, Seville, Dubrovnik, Florence, Type: Prize draw Venice, Prague, Barcelona or Dublin Entry: Purchase a Martell VS Fine Cognac 70cl bottle from a participating Waitrose store between 1st October 2014 and Type: Prize draw 31st January 2015 inclusive and complete the entry form Entry: Enter the unique code from any promotional Pink Lady online at www.martellveryspecialnights.com/waitrose apples pack at www.pinkladyapples.co.uk/love

NEW WAITROSE / V8 JUICE NEW SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT Closes: 31st January 2015 Closes: 12th February 2015 Prizes: 4 x Luxury two-night Champneys spa break Prizes: 5 x Sony Xperia tablet and a selection of five Action DVDs for 2, 20 x case of V8 V-Fusion juice Type: Prize draw Type: Prize draw Entry: Look for the MOVIEXTRAS sticker on selected Sony Pictures Entry: Purchase any V8 juice product from a participating Waitrose DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Stickered packs contain a leaflet store between 1st and 31st January 2015 inclusive and complete carrying a unique code to enter at www.mymoviextras.co.uk the entry form online at www.waitrose.com/v8competition Advice: Denzel Washington Notes: One entry per person per week. No purchase is necessary to CONTINUED ON PAGE 26 ➤

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YEO VALLEY IW PD DETTOL & FINISH IW VELVET FACIAL TISSUES PD Closes: 29th January 2015 Closes: 28th February 2015 ++ Closes: 28th February 2015 ++ Purchase Top Prize: 1 x £20,000 Cox & Kings Top Prize: 60 x Pair of X Factor Top Prize: 93 x £500 shopping holiday voucher Live Final tickets voucher Needed Details: www.yeovalley. Details: www.finish.co.uk/xfactor Details: www.velvettissue.com/ co.uk/holiday Listing: November 2014 issue win500 Ongoing Listing: October 2014 Listing: November 2014 issue HARBOUR SALMON WARNINKS ADVOCAAT PD WAITROSE / LAURENT- CO. INFUSIONS PD Our EXCLUSIVE at-a-glance digest of Closes: 28th February 2015 PERRIER PD Closes: 28th February 2015 every ongoing ‘Purchase Needed’ Top Prize: 1 x Four-day holiday Closes: 30th January 2015 Top Prize: 1 x Two-night Ragdale comp that’s previously featured in Top Prize: 1 x Luxury overnight for 2 to the famous Hall spa break for 2 Compers News. Don’t forget to carry stay for 2 at The Icehotel in Sweden Details: www.harboursalmon on entering! Langham in London Details: www.inthespirit.co.uk Details: www.waitrose.com/ ragdale.com /snowball ONGOING The listings on these pages laurentperrier Listing: January 2015 issue Listing: January 2015 issue have all previously appeared in Listing: December 2014 issue Compers News, so only brief IRN-BRU PD SANDISK USB FLASH DRIVES IW information is included to remind NANDO’S GROOVES IW PD Closes: 28th February 2015 ++ Closes: 14th March 2015 you that the competitions are still Closes: 31st January 2015 Top Prize: 5 x £100 cash Top Prize: 400 x £250 Red Letter out there. For full, detailed listings Top Prize: 1 x Seven-night South Details: www.irn-bru.co.uk/ Days gift voucher you should refer to the back issues African Festival bruskies Details: www.savetimewith shown… remember to use our online Holiday for 2 Listing: August 2013 issue sandisk.co.uk library at www.compersnews.com/ Details: www.nandos.co.uk/ Listing: November 2014 issue digital if you don’t have your paper groovescomp ISLA NEGRA WINE IW PD copies to hand. Listing: December 2014 issue Closes: 28th February 2015 PATERSON’S SHORTBREAD PD Top Prize: 50 x Dream Holiday Closes: 18th March 2015 Top Prize: 1 x Ten-night family WHAT THE SYMBOLS ON SAINSBURY’S / MARTELL Details: www.myislanegra.co.uk holiday to California THESE PAGES MEAN COGNAC PD Listing: December 2014 issue Closes: 31st January 2015 Details: www.paterson PD This competition Top Prize: 10 x Gaggia Carezza shortbread.com is a PRIZE DRAW. PRINGLES XTRA PD Listing: July 2014 issue Deluxe Manual Espresso Closes: 28th February 2015 IW This competition coffee machine is an INSTANT WIN. Top Prize: 1 x Three-night trip ASDA LITTLE ANGELS Details: www.martellveryspecial for 2 to Hollywood nights.com/sainsburys NAPPIES PD If both symbols are listed for the same Details: www.pringles.co.uk Listing: December 2014 issue Closes: 29th March 2015 ++ competition, this indicates that prizes Listing: December 2014 issue Top Prize: 10 x Year’s supply are awarded by both PRIZE DRAW and of nappies TESCO / MARTELL COGNAC IW INSTANT WIN methods. SAINSBURY’S / GRAFFIGNA Details: www.asda.com/win Closes: 31st January 2015 MALBEC WINE PD Listing: January 2015 issue ++ When this symbol appears Top Prize: 10 x Roberts Revival DAB radio worth £160 Closes: 28th February 2015 next to a closing date it means that Top Prize: 1 x Six-night trip for AQUA PURA WATER PD the date shown is the FINAL closing Details: www.promoentries.com Closes: 31st March 2015 /martell 2 to Argentina date for the competition, but that Details: www.graffigna Top Prize: 1 x Land Rover Discovery there are earlier closing dates during Listing: January 2015 issue promotion.co.uk car worth £35,000 the promotion too. There could, for Listing: December 2014 issue Details: www.aqua-pura.com/win example, be multiple draws (e.g. WASGIJ JIGSAW PUZZLES PD Listing: July 2014 issue hourly, daily or monthly), or the Closes: 31st January 2015 PD promotional period might include a Top Prize: 1 x £10,000 cash SHLOER AVERY LABELS & Closes: 28th February 2015 final ‘mop-up’ draw for late entries Details: www.wasgij.co.uk/wasgij- STATIONERY IW after the main prizes have been christmas-promotion Top Prize: 10 x OK! magazine Closes: 31st March 2015 awarded. When you see this symbol, Listing: October 2014 annual subscription Top Prize: 8 x £10,000 gift voucher check the main listing carefully to Details: www.shloer.com/ Details: www.averyrewards.co.uk ensure you don’t miss out on the WOLF BLASS WINE PD Competitions-offers/ Listing: February 2014 issue earlier draws and prizes! Closes: 31st January 2015 Free-OK!-magazine Top Prize: 15 x Rugby Legends Listing: January 2015 issue CUSHELLE TOILET TISSUE PD LONG-RUNNING LISTINGS experience Closes: 31st March 2015 ++ Special packs, entry forms etc. – Details: www.wolfblass TESCO / DETTOL & FINISH PD Top Prize: 6,552 x Heat ‘n’ where needed – may now be difficult legends.com Closes: 28th February 2015 ++ Hug Koala toy to find for some of the older listings Listing: December 2014 issue Top Prize: 1 x Family holiday to either Details: www.cushellewinter on these pages. Get into the habit of USA, Antigua or St Tropez win.co.uk MOUNTAIN DEW PD picking up everything you need for a Details: www.tesco.com/ Listing: November 2014 issue Closes: 8th February 2015 ++ comp as soon as you can, even if you winxfactor don’t intend entering straight away! Top Prize: 1 x X-Men DVD box set ORANGINA PD Listing: November 2014 issue Details: www.mountaindew Closes: 31st March 2015 ++ Please also note that some of our energy.co.uk Top Prize: 200 x Bourjois Paris TRAVELEX PD older listings may now have entered Listing: May 2014 issue Effet 3D lipgloss their final ‘mop-up’ phase, and in Closes: 28th February 2015 Details: www.wakeupyourlips.co.uk these cases the Top Prizes shown ROYAL CANIN PD Top Prize: 1 x A million in cash – Listing: August 2013 issue might no longer be available to win. Closes: 22nd February 2015 from British Pounds Where applicable, please refer to Top Prize: 1 x Family holiday (£1,000,000) to Hungarian PENTEL PENS IW PD main listings for detailed summaries to New York Forints (£2,530) Closes: 31st March 2015 of ongoing prize availability and Details: http://anniedraw. 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PHD NUTRITION COORS LIGHT BEER IW PD BLOOM PREMIUM THORNTONS CHOCOLATE IW PROTEIN BARS IW Closes: 30th April 2015 ++ LONDON DRY GIN PD Closes: 31st August 2015 Closes: 31st March 2015 Top Prize: 51 x Pair of exclusive Closes: 1st June 2015 ++ Top Prize: 10 x Home cinema system Top Prize: 1 x £2,000 cash Rudimental gig tickets Top Prize: 1 x Luxury three-night Details: www.thorntonsbig Details: www.phd-supplements. Details: www.coorslight.co.uk cottage break for up nightin.co.uk com/goldenticket /rudimental to 6 in Shropshire Listing: July 2014 issue Listing: December 2014 issue Listing: October 2014 Details: www.facebook.com /bloomgin THORNTONS CONTINENTAL SASCO YEAR PLANNERS PD PETITS FILOUS FRUBES IW Listing: December 2014 issue CHOCOLATE IW Closes: 31st March 2015 ++ Closes: 30th April 2015 Closes: 31st August 2015 Top Prize: 7 x iPad Air Top Prize: 11 x Nintendo 2DS console ORGANIX PD Top Prize: 6 x European city break Details: www.winwithsasco.com Details: www.supermario Closes: 29th June 2015 ++ Details: www.continentalcity Listing: July 2014 issue frubes.com Top Prize: 10,000 x Nuby shape, break.co.uk Listing: December 2014 issue texture and taste prizes for Listing: November 2014 issue THE ENGLISH your little one WEETABIX IW PD Details: www.organix.com PROVENDER CO. PD CLIPPER TEAS IW Closes: 30th April 2015 ++ /winprizes Closes: 31st March 2015 ++ Closes: 30th September 2015 Top Prize: 1 x £500 cash Listing: September 2014 issue Top Prize: 650 x Le Creuset Top Prize: 400 x £250 Boden Details: www.ultimatesportsday gift voucher condiment pot .co.uk KETTLE CHIPS IW PD Details: www.clipper-teas.com Details: www.englishprovender Listing: July 2014 issue Closes: 30th June 2015 ++ /boden .com/condimentpot Top Prize: 1 x Harvey Jones kitchen Listing: January 2015 issue Listing: January 2015 issue DORSET CEREALS IW PD worth up to £35,000 (or Closes: 7th May 2015 £25,000 cash alternative), NESTLÉ CEREALS PD YORKIE CHOCOLATE IW Top Prize: 1 x Your own woodland (or Details: www.kettlekitchen.co.uk Closes: 30th September 2015 ++ Closes: 31st March 2015 £50,000 cash alternative) Listing: November 2014 issue Top Prize: 85 x Two HP Slate 10 HD Top Prize: 150 x £100 Fuel Card Details: www.dorsetcereals.co.uk tablets – one for you, Details: www.yorkie- /woodland PRINCES HOT DOGS IW and one for the school of chocolate.co.uk Listing: October 2014 Closes: 30th June 2015 your choice Listing: July 2014 issue Top Prize: 100 x Go Ape! Tree Details: www.nestle.co.uk MONDELEZ Top Adventure /winatablet MÜLLERLIGHT INSPIRED BY CONFECTIONERY IW PD Details: www.winatreetop Listing: September 2014 issue BARBADOS YOGURT PD Closes: 30th May 2015 ++ adventure.co.uk Top Prize: 200 x Family Fun prize Closes: 1st April 2015 Listing: September 2014 issue APPLEWOOD CHEESE PD worth up to £1,500 Top Prize: 1 x Seven-night holiday Closes: 31st October 2015 Details: www.nothingbutfun.co.uk for 2 to Barbados SOUTH WEST FRANCE WINES PD Top Prize: 1 x Two-night family Listing: September 2014 issue Details: www.mullerlightmondays Closes: 30th June 2015 break in London

.co.uk/barbadosterms Top Prize: 1 x Two-night trip for 2 Details: www.applewoodrewards BUTTERKIST POPCORN IW Listing: November 2014 issue to South West France Closes: 31st May 2015 .co.uk Details: www.southwestfrance Top Prize: 100 x £100 cash Listing: January 2015 issue wines.co.uk/prize LEA & PERRINS SAUCE IW Details: www.winbutterkist.co.uk Listing: January 2015 issue Closes: 6th April 2015 Listing: October 2014 issue PRINCES CORNED BEEF IW Top Prize: 10 x Weekend break Closes: 31st October 2015 POST OFFICE TRAVEL for 2 to Paris EUROCHANGE IW PD Top Prize: 20 x Weekend break Details: www.leaandperrins.co.uk Closes: 31st May 2015 MONEY PD of your choice worth /instantwin Top Prize: 1 x £500 cash Closes: 31st July 2015 ++ up to £1,000 Listing: November 2014 issue Details: www.eurochange.co.uk Top Prize: 13 x £1,000 cash Details: www.winaweekendbreak /promotions.aspx Details: www.postoffice.co.uk/win .co.uk GREENALL’S GIN PD Listing: December 2014 issue Listing: September 2014 issue Listing: January 2015 issue Closes: 9th April 2015 ++ Top Prize: 1 x Mini Cooper car J.P.CHENET WINE & PORT PRINCES FRUIT FILLING IW READY BREK PD Details: www.facebook.com SALUT CHEESE IW PD Closes: 31st July 2015 Closes: 29th November 2015 ++ Top Prize: 10 x Baking Masterclass /greenallsgin Closes: 31st May 2015 ++ Top Prize: 570 x Personalised in London worth £1,000 child’s Winter Onesie Listing: September 2014 issue Top Prize: 1 x Two-night trip Details: www.winwithprinces.co.uk Details: www.weetabix.co.uk for 2 to Paris /fruitfillings /tandcs FULLER’S LONDON Details: www.spottheboule.co.uk Listing: September 2014 issue Listing: November 2014 issue PRIDE ALE PD Listing: July 2014 issue Closes: 16th April 2015 ++ PRINCES TUNA CHUNKS IW RUBICON EXOTIC IW PD Top Prize: 1 x Place in the lead car at LA CHÂSSE WINE IW PD Closes: 31st May 2015 Closes: 30th August 2015 Closes: 22nd December 2015 ++ the 2015 London Marathon Top Prize: 5 x Gourmet Cookery Top Prize: 1 x £10,000 kitchen Top Prize: 50 x Commonwealth Details: www.facebook.com Masterclass worth £200 makeover Games backpack /londonpride Details: www.lachassewines.com Details: www.winwithprinces.co.uk Details: www.rubiconcommon Listing: December 2014 issue /competition.html /tuna wealthholiday.co.uk Listing: October 2014 issue Listing: November 2014 issue Listing: June 2014 issue CARLSBERG UK PD Closes: 30th April 2015 NESTLÉ CEREALS PD HALLS MENTHOL IRN-BRU PD Top Prize: 10 x Cool Bag Closes: 31st May 2015 ++ SWEETS IW PD Closes: 31st October 2016 ++ Sound System Top Prize: 1 x Year’s supply of milk Closes: 31st August 2015 ++ Top Prize: 100 x Pair of Irn- Details: www.borntobechilled (or £500 cash alternative) Top Prize: 5 x Samsung Galaxy Bru Lucky Socks .co.uk/Promo/ Details: www.nestlecereals.co.uk S5 smartphone Details: www.irn-bru.co.uk EnterCompetition /winacow Details: www.hallsgameon.com /cheerwego Listing: January 2015 issue Listing: June 2014 issue Listing: October 2014 issue Listing: April 2014 issue

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23 Type: Prize draw Entry: Enter the unique code from any promotional NEW JET FUEL ‘Rewards Club’ Anchor Butter pack online at Closes: 15th February 2015 www.anchordairy.co.uk/gifts (click on ‘Prizes’). Prizes: 21 x £2,015 worth of Jet fuel Type: Prize draw NEW TESCO / OSRAM Entry: Spend £20.15 or more on fuel at any participating Jet forecourt Closes: 28th February 2015 between 19th January and 15th February 2015 inclusive to Prizes: 1 x Vauxhall ADAM car worth £12,000 receive an entry voucher containing a unique code. Enter Type: Prize draw the draw by posting your voucher in the in-store entry Entry: Purchase any Osram LED bulb at a participating Tesco store box, or online at www.jetlocal.co.uk/winter-promotion between 26th December 2014 and 28th February 2015 inclusive Notes: No purchase is necessary to enter the draw. For a free entry, and complete the entry form online at www.osram.co.uk/winacar send your details to: JET Free Prize Draw, Phillips 66 Ltd, 2 NEW Kingmaker Court, Warwick Technology Park, Warwick CV34 6DB NEW COVENT GARDEN SKINNY SOUP Closes: 1st March 2015 NEW SPAR Prizes: 1 x Mini One car Closes: 15th February 2015 ++ Type: Prize draw Prizes: 42 x £500 cash, 150,000 x free product or money-off coupon Entry: Enter the code from any promotional New Covent Garden Type: Instant win / prize draw Skinny Soup pack at www.newcoventgardensoup.com Entry: Make any purchase in a participating Spar store and keep your Notes: Maximum 4 entries per person per day. Entrants till receipt safe. Then either text the word SPAR followed by a must hold a valid UK driving licence. space and then the last 4 digits of your till receipt number to NEW PETER’S CORNED BEEF PASTIES 84433 (SR), or enter the draw online at www.spar.co.uk/win Closes: 6th March 2015 Notes: One entry per person per day. There are 42 daily draws Prizes: 1 x £5,000 Thomson holiday voucher until the final closing date, each with 1 x £500 cash Type: Prize draw prize to be won. Free product and money-off prizes will Entry: Enter codings from any promotional Peter’s Corned Beef be awarded instantly throughout the promotion. Pasties multipack at www.petersprizedraw.co.uk

NEW LA TASCA RESTAURANTS NEW WAITROSE / DAVIDSTOW CHEESE Closes: 16th February 2015 Closes: 17th March 2015 Prizes: 1 x Two-night trip for 2 to Madrid, 1 x two- Prizes: 1 x Michelin chef cookery class for 2 in London night trip for 2 to Barcelona including overnight accommodation, dinner up to Type: Prize draw the value of £250 and £200 travel allowance Entry: Spend at least £10 on food at a participating La Type: Prize draw Tasca restaurant between 1st January and 16th Entry: Purchase any cheese in the Waitrose Davidstow or February 2015 inclusive and complete the entry form Waitrose Davidstow Cornish Quartz range from a online at www.latasca.com/valentines-day participating Waitrose store between 31st December 2014 and 17th March 2015 inclusive and complete the NEW ASDA OPTICIANS / ALCON DAILIES entry form online at www.waitrose.com/davidstow Closes: 22nd February 2015 Prizes: 145 x £100 Asda gift card NEW BRITAX ISOFIX CAR SEATS Type: Prize draw Closes: 31st March 2015 Entry: Trial or purchase Alcon Dailies contact lenses at a participating Prizes: 1 x Range Rover Evoque car worth £38,000 Asda Opticians between 5th December 2014 and 22nd Type: Prize draw February 2015 inclusive to receive an entry form. Entry: Purchase a qualifying Britax ISOFIX car seat from a Notes: One entry per person. There are 145 participating participating retailer between 15th December 2014 and stores, each with one prize to be won. 15th March 2015 inclusive and complete the entry form online at www.britaxwinacar.co.uk – where you’ll also NEW MAGIMIX find a list of participating products and stockists. Closes: 27th February 2015 Notes: Entrants must hold a full UK driving licence. Prizes: 10 x Weekend for 2 at the Brompton Cookery School in Shropshire, including overnight accommodation and cookery course NEW PURE POP DIGITAL RADIOS Type: Prize draw Closes: 31st March 2015 Entry: Purchase a Magimix XL Food Processor from a participating Prizes: 20 x Sage by Heston Blumenthal Barista Express coffee machine stockist between 1st November 2014 and 31st January 2015 Type: Prize draw inclusive, then complete and return the entry form along with Entry: Purchase any Pure POP digital radio from a participating a copy of your proof of purchase to receive a free recipe book stockist (including John Lewis, Currys and Argos) and complete and macaron kit worth £50, plus automatic entry into the draw. the entry form online at www.makemykitchencool.com Notes: The entry form can be downloaded online at a few retailer Notes: One entry per person websites, e.g. http://tinyurl.com/CNMagimixXL NEW RED NOSE DAY: NOSE IN A BAG NEW ANCHOR BUTTER Closes: 8th April 2015 Closes: 28th February 2015 Prizes: 12 x ‘Be a Guest of Comic Relief for Red Nose Day’ or ‘Be a Guest Prizes: 2 x Magimix Cuisine System 4200 food processor of Comic Relief at the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Musical’

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experience for 2 in London, including travel and accommodation Minifigures Series 13 pack atwww.lego.com/minifigures Type: Instant win / prize draw Notes: One entry per person per day. There are 17 weekly draws until Entry: Red Nose Day takes place on 13th March and there are 9 official the final closing date, each with one prize to be won. See T&Cs Red Nose designs to collect this year, sold in sealed packs. Find for weekly prize schedule. No purchase is necessary – you can a Golden Nose in your ‘Nose in a Bag’ pack, and you’re a winner. request a free code by emailing: [email protected] Notes: The 12 prizes will be distributed as follows: 9 via Sainsbury’s stores, 1 via Oxfam stores, 1 via the Red Nose Day Online NEW CAWSTON PRESS KIDS’ BLENDS Shop and 1 via a final wrap-up draw. Winners who claim their Closes: 3rd May 2015 ++ prize by 11th March 2015 can choose either prize experience, Prizes: 17 x The Very Hungry Caterpillar gift hamper later claimants will be offered the Musical experience only. Type: Prize draw If you do not find a Golden Nose in your pack, you can enter Entry: Enter the unique code from any Cawston Press Kids’ Blends the wrap-up draw at www.rednoseday.com/whonose any juice triple pack at www.cawstonpress.com/caterpillar time until 8th April 2015. Only one entry per person for the Notes: There are 17 weekly draws until the final closing wrap-up draw, and keep your promotional packaging safe date, each with one prize to be won. as you’ll need it to claim your prize if you’re the winner. NEW LILY O’BRIEN’S CHOCOLATES NEW DAIRYLEA Closes: 29th May 2015 Closes: 12th April 2015 ++ Prizes: 3 x Ultimate party for you and your friends worth Prizes: 13 x Vue Family 3D Cinema annual pass, up to £5,000, 100 x box of chocolates 84 x Vue Family 3D Cinema ticket Type: Prize draw Type: Prize draw Entry: Enter the unique code from the leaflet inside any participating Entry: Enter codings from any promotional Dairylea Dunkers, Lily O’Brien’s chocolate pack at www.lilyobriens.ie/ Lunchables or Stripcheese pack at www.dairylea.co.uk ultimateparty. At the time of writing this competition wasn’t Notes: One entry per person per day. There are 12 weekly draws being flashed on the outside of packs, but so far we’ve between 5th January and 29th March 2015 inclusive, each found leaflets inside Desserts Collection 230g packs with with 1 x annual pass to be won, and 84 daily draws during the a ‘Best Before’ date of 31st December 2015 onwards. same period, each with 1 x family ticket to win. Entries received between 30th March and 12th April 2015 inclusive will go into NEW ASDA / BRANSTON BAKED BEANS a final mop-up draw, with one further annual pass to be won. Closes: 31st May 2015 Prizes: 5 x £500 Asda gift card, 50 x £50 Asda gift card, 500 NEW McCOY’S CRISPS x £20 Asda gift card, 2,000 x £5 Asda gift card Closes: 12th April 2015 Type: Instant win Prizes: 1 x Ultimate Sky TV package including HD TV, iPad, Sky+HD Entry: Purchase a 3 x 410g multipack of Branston Baked Beans box and subscription, 2 x Sky Sports TV show experience, from a participating Asda store and complete the entry 5 x VIP football experience, 5 x VIP Sky Bet Championship form online at www.winwithbranstonbeans.com 2015 Play-Off Final experience, 10 x Sky Sports kit bag, 18,000 x 2-for-1 Sky Bet Football League tickets NEW CADBURY CRÈME EGGS Type: Instant win Closes: 31st May 2015 Entry: Enter codings from any promotional McCoy’s Prizes: 14 x £1,000 cash, 94 x £100 cash crisps pack at www.skysports.com/mccoys Type: Instant win Notes: One entry per person per day Entry: Find a ‘Gooless’ Cadbury Crème Egg which will also contain a special prize voucher. NEW LINDT GOLD BUNNY Notes: This promotion is running at selected stores only, so look Closes: 19th April 2015 out for in-store posters, display bins, shelf stickers etc. Prizes: 1 x Holiday of your choice worth up to £10,000, advertising the competition before making a purchase. 250 x Lindt Gold Bunny soft toy Winning eggs will be released into these stores ONLY Type: Prize draw between 1st January and 5th April 2015 at the rate of one Entry: Enter the unique code from any promotional 50g, 100g or 200g per week for the £1,000 prizes, and one per day for the Milk Chocolate Lindt Gold Bunny pack at www.goldbunny.co.uk £100 prizes. Final date for claims is 31st May 2015.

NEW ASDA / KLEENEX BALSAM NEW MORNFLAKE OATS Closes: 30th April 2015 Closes: 30th June 2015 Prizes: 1 x £4,200 worth of Asda gift cards Prizes: 1 x AGA Total Control oven worth over £10,000, 2 Type: Prize draw x AGA cast-iron cookware set worth £225 Entry: Purchase any TWIN pack of Kleenex Balsam or Balsam Type: Prize draw + Menthol tissues from a participating Asda store and Entry: Promotional Mornflake Oats packs feature this draw – you can complete the entry form online at www.kleenex.co.uk/asda also read full details at www.mornflake.com/aga. Entry is by Notes: One entry per person post, following the instructions on the pack or website. You must include a barcode from a promotional pack with each entry. NEW LEGO MINIFIGURES Closes: 30th April 2015 ++ NEW KINDER BUENO CHOCOLATE Prizes: 17 x LEGO building set worth between £100 and £230 Closes: 4th July 2015 ++ Type: Prize draw Prizes: 2,500 x Set of two Nails Inc nail polishes Entry: Enter the unique code from any promotional LEGO Type: Prize draw

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Entry: Enter the unique code from any promotional pack instructions or online at www.stiglets.co.uk Kinder Bueno pack at www.buenonails.com Advice: Dunsfold Notes: There are 26 weekly draws until the final closing date, Notes: One entry per person each with 95 prizes to be won. All losing entries will also go into an additional ‘mop-up’ draw at the end of NEW ABRA-CA-DEBORA DUTCH PANCAKES the promotion, with a further 30 prizes to be won. Closes: 30th November 2015 Prizes: 1 x Fiat 500 car or £10,000 cash, 100 x Dutchie bicycle NEW LUCOZADE ENERGY Type: Instant win Closes: 31st July 2015 ++ Entry: Enter the unique code from any promotional Abra-ca- Prizes: 12 x Sony Xperia Z3 tablet, 13 x Sony Xperia Z3 phone, 89 x Sony Debora pack at www.abra-ca-debora.co.uk/winfiat Wireless Speaker, 1,695 x branded Lucozade merchandise Type: Instant win NEW AVERY LABELS & STATIONERY Entry: Enter the unique code from any ‘Yes Project’ promotional Closes: 31st March 2016 Lucozade Energy pack at www.lucozadeenergy.com. Prizes: 1 x £10,000 cash, 10 x £1,000 cash, 20 x £500 cash, Promotion runs 10am-8pm daily, and codes can 100 x £100 shopping voucher, 200 x £50 shopping only be entered between these times. voucher, 400 x Avery Surprise Reward Notes: The above prizes will be awarded instantly between 2nd Type: Instant win January and 30th June 2015 inclusive. Entries received Entry: Enter the unique code from any promotional Avery between 1st-31st July 2015 inclusive will go into a final product at www.averyrewards.co.uk – where you’ll mop-up draw to win 1 x Sony Xperia Z3 phone. also find a list of participating products.

NEW WEETABIX, WEETOS & READY BREK Closes: 31st July 2015 ++ Entry Forms Prizes: 90 x Choice of nine ‘Pick Your Nose’ experiences You need an official entry form to enter the comps in this section. We tell you ranging from indoor sky diving, a trip to the zoo, karate where to look, and how to enter without a form if it’s possible. lessons, aquarium tour, £150 to spend at your local toy NEW TESCO FOOD FAMILY LIVING MAGAZINE shop and more, 500 x £20 Toys R Us gift voucher Closes: 31st January 2015 Type: Prize draw Prizes: 5 x £100 Tesco gift card Entry: Enter the unique code from any promotional Weetabix Crispy Minis, Weetabix Strawberry, Weetos or Ready Entry: Entry coupon inside the January 2015 issue of Tesco Food Brek pack at http://pickyournose.weetabix.com Family Living magazine, available free at participating Notes: Maximum 3 entries per person per day. There are 10 Tesco stores. Scan this with your Tesco Clubcard at weekly draws between 30th January and 3rd April the checkout for automatic entry into the draw. 2015 inclusive, each with 9 x main prizes and 50 x toy Notes: One entry per household vouchers to be won. Entries received between 4th April NEW WHITAKER’S ALMANACK and 31st July 2015 inclusive will go into a final mop-up Closes: 31st January 2015 draw, with 1 x £150 Toy Shop voucher to be won. Prizes: 1 x £500 cash, 10 x Whitaker’s Almanack 2016 on publication NEW BRANSTON BAKED BEANS Entry: Entry form sealed inside copies of Whitaker’s Almanack Closes: 31st October 2015 2015 – you can also download a reference copy of the Prizes: 1,000 x £100 cash, 2,000 x £20 supermarket form at www.whitakersalmanack.com/quiz/1000-quiz voucher, 27,000 x £2.50 money-off coupon Advice: Please use these suggested answers as a guide to your own Type: Instant win research, you may also wish to use your own wording with Entry: Enter proof-of-purchase information from any some of the answers. Some of this year’s questions are a little promotional Branston Baked Beans multipack looser than usual and could be open to some interpretation, at www.branstonbeansdaysout.co.uk so it’s important that you check these answers to make sure you’re happy with them! 1. USA (page 595); 2. MOT NEW NESTLÉ CEREALS Test (413); 3. Carnegie Medal in Children’s Literature 2014 Closes: 31st October 2015 ++ Shortlist (998); 4. Britain, Europe and Prehistory (200); 5. Prizes: 10 x Home Makeover or £20,000 cash, 100 The European Beaver (983); 6. Worst Band (1012); 7. 13,127 x year’s supply of Nestlé cereals (244); 8. Antony (20); 9. Newspaper Editor (555); 10. China Type: Prize draw (16); 11. 15 November (173); 12. 49 (291); 13. Army Colonel Entry: Enter the unique code from any promotional Nestlé cereal (325); 14. 71 (1057); 15. Ghana (630); 16. Florence Nightingale pack at www.nestlecereals.co.uk/winahomemakeover (485); 17. Year Founded (575); 18. UK Passport (599/600); Notes: There are two closing dates for this draw – 26th April 19. 2 (222); 20. Whitaker’s 2015 Editorial Staff (2). 2015 when 9 x main prizes and 90 x runner-up prizes will Notes: One entry per person be awarded, and 31st October 2015 when the remaining 1 x main prize and 10 x runner-up prizes will be drawn. NEW WATERSTONES / MORIARTY BOOK Closes: 28th February 2015 NEW TWIGLETS Prizes: 1 x London theatre break for 2 including overnight Closes: 21st November 2015 accommodation and tickets for a West End play of your choice Prizes: 40 x ‘Hot Lap with The Stig’ Top Gear test track experience Entry: Download an entry form at www.moriarty-book.co.uk/ Type: Prize draw waterstones and post to the address given. Entry: Purchase any promotional ‘Stiglets’ Twiglets pack, Advice: ACROSS: 1. A Case of Identity; 6. Afoot; 7. Detective; 9. Stable; then enter the draw either by text by following the on- 12. Ash; 13. Private; 15. The Six Napoleons; 17. Night; 22. Sholto;

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24. Elementary; 25. Utah; 26. The Speckled Band. DOWN: 1. and your name and address to 82229 (50p + SR). Agatha; 2. Scott; 3. Irene; 4. Exeter; 5. Iris; 8. Elders; 9. Shoe; 10. Notes: One entry per person Artist; 11. Lanner; 13. Pipe; 14. Idle; 15. Tenement; 16. Ohio; 18. Holmes; 19. Toby; 20. Method; 21. Rance; 22. Stark; 23. Thumb. Prizes: 10 x Three-month membership of the Hairy Bikers Diet Notes: One entry per person Club plus a year’s supply of Hairy Dieters curry sauces Entry: Phone 0901 151 0088 (50p), or text ASDA4 then a space NEW AGE UK INSURANCE and your name and address to 82229 (50p + SR). Closes: 31st March 2015 Notes: One entry per person Prizes: 1 x £1,000 cash Entry: Entry form at participating Age UK shops, and slotted Prizes: 10 x VIP meet-and-greet family ticket to see Ben inside selected newspapers and magazines & Holly’s Little Kingdom at a choice of UK venues, Notes: One entry per person 10 x standard family ticket to see the show Entry: Phone 0901 151 0086 (50p), or text ASDA5 then a space ONGOING JOULES and your name and address to 82229 (50p + SR). Closes: 31st March 2015 Notes: One entry per person Prizes: 1 x Land Rover Defender Station Wagon 90, or £20,000 cash alternative Prizes: 1 x Seven-night Al Fresco Holidays family break at La Croix Entry: Entry form at participating Joules stores, or de Vieux Pont park in France, including car ferry crossing enter online at www.joules.com/win Entry: Phone 0901 151 0089 (50p), or text ASDA6 then a space Notes: One entry per person and your name and address to 82229 (50p + SR). Notes: One entry per person. A selection of Asda Magazine draws ONGOING STIHL GARDEN PRODUCTS can also be entered online at www.asda.com/win Closes: 31st March 2015 Prizes: 1 x VIP Rugby Premiership Matchday Experience for NEW MORRISONS / RUBICON COCONUT WATER 4 – prize includes tickets to the Leicester Tigers v Closes: 31st January 2015 Northampton Saints match in May 2015, stadium tour, a Prizes: 1 x Seven-day holiday for 2 to Thailand chance to meet the players, premium seats, first class Entry: Text COCONUT to 88802 (SR) hospitality, fine dining and overnight accommodation Notes: One entry per person Entry: Entry form at participating Stihl dealers, or download a form at www.stihl.co.uk/rugbywin. Once completed, you need to post NEW MY WEEKLY MAGAZINE your entry into the special competition box at any participating Closes: 2nd February 2015 Stihl dealer – see the website for a list of locations. Prizes: 1 x £500 cash Notes: One entry per person Entry: Phone 0901 292 5029 (£1.02), or text MW followed by a space and then your answer, name and address to 64343 (£1 + SR). Advice: B. Rainbow Phone & Text The amount in brackets is the TOTAL cost of entering each comp. For phone NEW WOMAN’S WEEKLY HEALTHY LIVING SPECIAL comps, this is based on a BT landline. Costs using other networks may vary, and Closes: 3rd February 2015 are likely to be CONSIDERABLY higher from a mobile phone. For text comps, our Prizes: 1 x Luxury two-night break for 2 at Knock total includes any charges for return messages etc. FREE = Freephone, LR = Local Castle Hotel and Spa in Crieff, Scotland Rate, NR = National Rate, SR = your standard text rate (typically 10-12p depending Entry: Phone 0905 652 3331 (£1.02), or text WWPRIZE1 on your network and tariff, note that these texts are unlikely to be included in monthly plans or free text bundles so you should always expect to be charged followed by a space and then your answer, full name, when entering a text competition). house number and postcode to 85088 (£1 + SR). Advice: A. Haggis NEW ASDA / WARBURTONS Notes: A selection of Woman’s Weekly magazine competitions can Closes: 27th January 2015 also be entered online at www.womansweekly.co.uk/win Prizes: 5 x £500 Asda gift card Entry: Text NY500 to 88966 (SR) NEW STYLE AT HOME MAGAZINE Notes: One entry per person Closes: 5th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x £2,000 to spend at Next Home NEW ASDA MAGAZINE Entry: Phone 0904 160 0651 (£1.53), or text SAHCOMP2 Closes: 31st January 2015 followed by a space and then your answer, full name, Prizes: 1 x Three-night luxury break for 2 in Oxford house number and postcode to 87088 (£1.50 + SR). Entry: Phone 0901 151 0084 (50p), or text ASDA1 then a space Advice: c) Flowers and your name and address to 82229 (50p + SR). Notes: One entry per person Notes: One entry per person Prizes: 1 x £2,000 to spend on bedroom furniture Prizes: 30 x £50 Fayre & Square pub restaurant voucher and fitting at Trend Interiors Entry: Phone 0901 151 0087 (50p), or text ASDA2 then a space Entry: Phone 0904 160 0655 (£1.53), or text SAHWIN2 followed and your name and address to 82229 (50p + SR). by a space and then your answer, full name, house Notes: One entry per person number and postcode to 87088 (£1.50 + SR). Advice: b) Clothes Prizes: 1 x Fourteen-night Park Resorts caravan Notes: One entry per person. A selection of Style at holiday for 6 at a choice of UK locations Home competitions can also be entered online at Entry: Phone 0901 151 0085 (50p), or text ASDA3 then a space www.housetohome.co.uk/competitions

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NEW REAL HOMES MAGAZINE NEW WOMAN’S WEEKLY FICTION SPECIAL Closes: 6th February 2015 Closes: 10th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x Hammonds home office makeover worth £5,000 Prizes: 1 x Two-night break in a family room at any Travelodge in Britain Entry: Text RHMAG HAMMONDS followed by a space then your Entry: Phone 0905 652 3345 (£1.02), or text WWPRIZE2 name, house number and postcode to 64343 (£1 + SR) followed by a space and then your answer, full name, Notes: One entry per person house number and postcode to 85088 (£1 + SR). Advice: A. Charles Dickens Prizes: 12 x Grohe Tempesta 100 electric shower worth £296 Notes: A selection of Woman’s Weekly magazine competitions can Entry: Text RHMAG GROHE B followed by a space then your name, house number and postcode to 64343 (£1 + SR) also be entered online at www.womansweekly.co.uk/win

Notes: One entry per person ONGOING BANKS’S BEER Prizes: 2 x Abode Debut bathroom mixer package worth £617 Closes: 27th February 2015 ++ Entry: Text RHMAG ABODE followed by a space then your name, Prizes: 4 x £1,000 cash – split £500 for you and £500 house number and postcode to 64343 (£1 + SR) for a registered charity of your choice Notes: One entry per person. A selection of Real Homes Entry: Text WINWINS to 66777 (SR), or enter online competitions can also be entered online at at www.bankssbeer.co.uk/winwins using the www.realhomesmagazine.co.uk/competitions Competition Entry Code: WINWINS Notes: One entry per person per draw. There are four quarterly NEW THE PEOPLE’S FRIEND MAGAZINE draws until the final closing date (closing on 30th May Closes: 6th February 2015 2014, 29th August 2014, 28th November 2014 and 27th Prizes: 1 x iPhone 6 worth £539 February 2015), each with one prize to be won. Entry: Phone 0901 292 5024 (£1.02), or text PF followed by a space and then your answer, name and address to 64343 (£1 + SR). NEW CRAFTSELLER MAGAZINE Advice: A. Talk Closes: 27th February 2015 Prizes: 2 x Clikcraft personalised website package worth £1,200 NEW CARDMAKING & PAPERCRAFT MAGAZINE Entry: Text CLIKCRAFT A followed by a space and then your Closes: 10th February 2015 name, address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) Prizes: 5 x Xcut Xpress die-cutting machine and a selection of dies, worth £200 Prizes: 10 x Trixie Lixie gingham knicker kit worth £13 Entry: Text DOCRAFTSCP C followed by a space and then your Entry: Text TRIXIE followed by a space and then your name, address and email to 87474 (50p + SR) name, address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) Notes: One entry per person

Prizes: 8 x The Origami Home book Prizes: 10 x Modern Crochet book worth £20 Entry: Text ORIGAMICP followed by a space and then your Entry: Text MODERN followed by a space and then your name, address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) name, address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) Notes: One entry per person Prizes: 5 x Pair of tickets for a trio of crafting events – Prizes: 10 x Pair of Hobbycrafts show tickets Sewing For Pleasure, Cake International and the (Glasgow SECC, 5th-8th March 2015) Stitching, Sewing and Hobbycraft shows Entry: Text GLASGOWCP followed by a space and then your Entry: Text TRIO followed by a space and then your name, name, address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) Notes: One entry per person

Prizes: 3 x Ulster Weavers ‘Thomas the Cat’ Prizes: 3 x Clikcraft personalised website package worth £50 kitchenware bundle worth £71 Entry: Text COMPUTER followed by a space and then your Entry: Text THOMASCP followed by a space and then your name, address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) name, address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) Notes: One entry per person Prizes: 1 x Bumper bundle of cross-stitch kits worth £120 Entry: Text CROSS followed by a space and then your Prizes: 1 x £150 to spend on a course of your choice at the name, address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) Ardington School of Crafts in Oxfordshire Entry: Text COURSECP followed by a space and then your Prizes: 3 x Workshop at The Sewing Club in Kent, worth £35 name, address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) Entry: Text WORKSHOP followed by a space and then your Notes: One entry per person. A selection of Cardmaking & name, address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) Papercraft competitions can also be entered online at www.cardmakingandpapercraft.com/competitions Prizes: 1 x Beyond Fabric patchwork quilt kit worth £150 NEW SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL MAGAZINE Entry: Text QUILT followed by a space and then your name, Closes: 10th February 2015 address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) Prizes: 1 x Five-night holiday for 2 to Bali worth up to £8,000 Entry: Phone 0901 553 0668 (£1.02), text TRAVEL3 followed by a Prizes: 8 x The Soap Kitchen candle making kit worth £15 space and then your answer, name and address to 87088 (£1.50 Entry: Text KITCHEN followed by a space and then your + SR), or enter online at www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/bali name, address and email to 87474 (25p + SR) Advice: Indonesia Notes: A selection of Craftseller draws can also be entered Notes: One entry per person online at www.craft-seller.com/competitions

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NEW SAINSBURY’S MAGAZINE NEW VISIT SCOTLAND Closes: 28th February 2015 Closes: 27th January 2015 Prizes: 1 x Set of three cook books worth £62 Prizes: 1 x Three-night woodland break for 4 in Perthshire Entry: Phone 0901 360 0020 (£1.02), text CW5 followed by a space then Entry: www.visitscotland.com/win/perthshirewinter14ezine your answer, name, address and phone number to 85100 (£1 + Notes: One entry per person SR), or enter online at www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/win Advice: Bakewell tart NEW WAITROSE KITCHEN MAGAZINE Notes: One entry per person Closes: 28th January 2015 Prizes: 1 x Seven-night holiday for 2 to Barbados NEW YOUR HOME MAGAZINE Entry: www.waitrose.com/barbados Closes: 28th February 2015 Advice: 40 Prizes: 2 x SafeChoice front door with fitting, worth up to £1,500 Notes: One entry per person Entry: Phone 0901 819 0680 (52p), or text YH COMP4 followed by a space then your name, address and answer to 87080 (50p + SR) Prizes: 1 x Three-night Myanmar river cruise for 2 Advice: B) Ajar Entry: www.waitrose.com/myanmar Advice: Ayeyarwady River Prizes: 30 x Whitworths snacking hamper worth £25 Notes: One entry per person Entry: Phone 0901 819 0681 (52p), or text YHGIVE1 followed by a space then your name and address to 87080 (50p + SR) Prizes: 1 x European cruise of your choice for 2 Entry: www.waitrose.com/oceania Prizes: 25 x Pair of The Edible Garden Show tickets (Alexandra Advice: Canyon Ranch Spa Club Palace, London, 20th-22nd March 2015) Notes: One entry per person Entry: Phone 0901 819 0682 (52p), or text YHGIVE2 followed by a NEW RADIO TIMES MAGAZINE space then your name and address to 87080 (50p + SR) Closes: 30th January 2015 Prizes: 1 x Two-night trip for 2 to Salzburg including Prizes: 50 x Pair of The National Homebuilding & Renovating Show Sound of Music-themed tour and dinner tickets (Birmingham NEC, 26th-29th March 2015) Entry: www.radiotimes.com/win4 Entry: Phone 0901 819 0683 (52p), or text YHGIVE3 followed by a Notes: One entry per person space then your name and address to 87080 (50p + SR) NEW TATLER MAGAZINE Prizes: 1 x Roman luxury showering package Closes: 30th January 2015 Entry: Phone 0901 819 0684 (52p), or text YHGIVE4 followed by a Prizes: 1 x Diamond ring worth £10,000 space then your name and address to 87080 (50p + SR) Entry: www.tatler.com/competitions/win-a-diamond Notes: One entry per person Prizes: 15 x Spontex home cleaning kit worth over £50 Entry: Phone 0901 819 0685 (52p), or text YHGIVE5 followed by a NEW GEETA’S CHUTNEY space then your name and address to 87080 (50p + SR) Closes: 31st January 2015 Prizes: 1 x Luxury Indian food hamper Prizes: 1 x EnviroVent home ventilation system Entry: www.geetasfoods.com/jam0115 with installation, worth £1,000 Notes: One entry per person Entry: Phone 0901 819 0686 (52p), or text YHGIVE6 followed by a NEW HARPER’S BAZAAR MAGAZINE space then your name and address to 87080 (50p + SR) Closes: 31st January 2015 Notes: A selection of Your Home competitions can also be Prizes: 1 x Luxury five-night holiday for 2 to Sydney entered online at www.yourhomemagazine.co.uk Entry: www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/culture-news/competitions/ win-a-luxury-holiday-to-sydney-with-qantas Famous Brands Online Notes: One entry per person Selected Web Comps NEW JAZZ APPLES Here at Compers News, we don’t pad out our listings or artificially inflate our ‘comp Closes: 31st January 2015 count’ with hundreds of online listings. In this section we only feature major web comps such as those advertised in the press, in-store, on product packaging, DVD Prizes: 1 x Pro Fitness JX Aerobic Exercise Bike and book covers etc. If you’re looking for more, you can find THOUSANDS of extra Entry: www.jazzapples.co.uk/news/exercisebikecomp2015 web comps listed on our sister site www.theprizefinder.com – and all for FREE! Advice: Sir Chris Hoy Notes: One entry per person DON’T FORGET! You can make your comping even easier by logging on to our digital edition at www.compersnews.com/digital - it includes quick one-click NEW MALIBU links to every web address listed in this month’s issue! Closes: 31st January 2015 Prizes: 10 x Your perfect Malibu Night In or Night Out – choose NEW OK! MAGAZINE between a £50 Just Eat voucher with a selection of Closes: 27th January 2015 Malibu merchandise or a Slug & Lettuce £100 bar tab Prizes: 1 x £10,000 cash Entry: www.malibucompetitions.com/StayingInVsGoingOut Entry: www.ok.co.uk/win Notes: One entry per person

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NEW MORRISONS MAGAZINE NEW TREX Closes: 31st January 2015 Closes: 5th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x Omega VRT350 juicer worth £330, plus Prizes: 1 x NutriBullet blender a £50 Morrisons gift voucher Entry: www.familybaking.co.uk/offers Entry: https://your.morrisons.com/Competitions/ Advice: 1932 WIN-a-state-of-the-art-juicer-worth-330 Notes: One entry per person Advice: 120ml NEW ASDA / VELVET CRUNCH NEW RYVITA Closes: 6th February 2015 Closes: 31st January 2015 Prizes: 1 x Seven-night Boot Camp experience for 2 in Prizes: 1 x Two-night spa break for 2 in Cornwall Ibiza, 1,000 x free Velvet Crunch pack Entry: www.ryvita.co.uk/competitions Entry: www.asda.com/win Notes: One entry per household Notes: One entry per person

NEW CORNISHWARE NEW ESSENTIALS MAGAZINE Closes: 1st February 2015 Closes: 6th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x Two-night break for 2 at St Michael’s Hotel & Spa in Falmouth Prizes: 1 x £1,000 to spend at JD Williams Entry: www.cornishware.co.uk/free-prize-draw Entry: www.essentialsmagazine.com/jdwilliamscomp Notes: One entry per household NEW DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW PIZZA HUT Closes: 8th February 2015 Closes: 1st February 2015 Prizes: 1 x Seven-night safari holiday for 4 to South Africa, plus a Prizes: 1 x Four-night family holiday to Seville two-night VIP trip to London to see Disney’s The Lion King Entry: www.pizzahut.co.uk/restaurants/kids-- Entry: www.telegraph.co.uk/southafricanairways families/paddington-competition Notes: One entry per person Advice: Marmalade Notes: One entry per person NEW TESCO / JAFFA ORANGES Closes: 8th February 2015 NEW HELLO! FASHION MAGAZINE Prizes: 1 x Family weekend in Bath with £200 spending money Closes: 2nd February 2015 Entry: www.jaffa.co.uk/win-a-weekend-in-bath Prizes: 1 x London shopping trip for 2 worth £1,500 Entry: www.hellofashion.com/win NEW THE EXPENDABLES 3 DVD Closes: 8th February 2015 NEW TESCO FOOD FAMILY LIVING MAGAZINE Prizes: 1 x 50” TV and Blu-ray player, paintballing experience for Closes: 2nd February 2015 you and 4 friends, Alpine Mobile Media Station, Scotts Prizes: 1 x Seven-night family holiday to Egypt Menswear £150 voucher, £250 worth of Bluebeards Entry: www.tescoliving.com/smart-living/competitions/2014/ Revenge grooming products and a year’s subscription to december/win-a-family-holiday-to-egypt Mens Fitness magazine, 5 x The Expendables 3 DVD Notes: One entry per household Entry: www.moviecomps.com/expendables Advice: Sylvester Stallone Prizes: 1 x Seven-night family camping holiday to a choice Notes: One entry per person of Canvas Holidays sites across Europe Entry: www.tescoliving.com/smart-living/competitions/2014/ NEW THE GUEST DVD Closes: 8th February 2015 december/win-a-glamping-break-in-europe Prizes: 1 x Intempo Sound Dock, Vibe Optisound speakers, The Notes: One entry per household Guest DVD and T-shirt, plus a year’s supply of Tops Pizza Entry: www.moviecomps.com/theguest Prizes: 1 x London theatre break for 2 including overnight Advice: Downton Abbey accommodation and tickets to see The 39 Steps Notes: One entry per person Entry: www.tescoliving.com/smart-living/competitions/2014/ december/win-two-tickets-for-a-theatre-show-in-london NEW MR PORKY PORK SCRATCHINGS Notes: One entry per household Closes: 9th February 2015 Prizes: 30 x Chance for you and a friend to meet Prizes: 2 x Luxury Amoy product and homeware hamper motorbike star Guy Martin Entry: www.tescoliving.com/smart-living/competitions/2014/ Entry: www.mrporkycompetitions.co.uk december/win-one-of-two-amoy-hampers Advice: 1. Pork Shank 2. Guy Martin: My Autobiography Notes: One entry per household Notes: One entry per person. Prize is available at 3 locations – London (5th March), York (12th March) and Birmingham (19th NEW LIVING ETC. MAGAZINE March) – with 10 winners being chosen for each date. Closes: 5th February 2015 Prizes: 5 x £1,500 to spend on your dream bed NEW SCILLY FLOWERS and mattress at Button & Sprung Closes: 9th February 2015 Entry: www.housetohome.co.uk/buttonandsprung Prizes: 1 x Ten gift boxes of fresh flowers to share with your friends Advice: 100 Entry: www.scillyflowers.co.uk/ghk Notes: One entry per household Notes: One entry per person

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NEW LANDS’ END NEW SAINSBURY’S MAGAZINE Closes: 11th February 2015 Closes: 28th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x Your choice of clothes from the Lands’ End Prizes: 1 x Three-night cottage break for 2 in Cornwall Spring 2015 collection, to the value of £1,000 Entry: www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/cornishescape Entry: www.landsend.co.uk/spring Notes: One entry per person

NEW SAINSBURY’S MAGAZINE Prizes: 2 x Set of Phil Smith hair products worth over £100 Closes: 13th February 2015 Entry: www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/win/item/ Prizes: 1 x Secret Vineyards wine holiday for 2 to Hungary worth £1,000 win-phil-smith-hair-products Entry: www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/win/item/hungary-wine-holiday Notes: One entry per person Advice: 375ml NEW SANDALS HOLIDAYS Notes: One entry per person Closes: 28th February 2015

NEW VISIT BATH Prizes: 1 x Luxury seven-night holiday for 2 to Closes: 13th February 2015 Grenada (NB – flights NOT included) Prizes: 1 x Overnight spa break for 2 in Bath Entry: www.sandals.co.uk/win Notes: One entry per household. There were conflicting closing Entry: www.visitbath.co.uk/competition dates for this one at the time of going to press, we’ve Notes: One entry per person gone with the earliest date to be on the safe side. NEW ASK ITALIAN NEW GREENE KING IPA Closes: 15th February 2015 Closes: 15th November 2015 ++ Prizes: 1 x Eight-night cycling holiday for 2 to Italy Prizes: 1 x Ultimate Rugby Tour (prize consists of a £10,000 Gullivers Entry: www.facebook.com/ASKItalian Sports Travel gift voucher to spend on any rugby event), 4 x Notes: One entry per person Samsung 50” Smart LED TV, 60 x crate of Greene King IPA Entry: www.iparugby.co.uk NEW SAN PELLEGRINO WATER Notes: One entry per person. There are 5 weekly draws during this Closes: 16th February 2015 year’s Rugby 6 Nations tournament (February & March), 7 Prizes: 1 x Culinary experience for you and 9 friends at Tower weekly draws during the Rugby World Cup (September & Bridge in London, 5 x KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer October), and one final draw for the main holiday prize. Once Entry: http://win.sanpellegrino.co.uk you have entered, your entry will qualify for all subsequent Advice: Red draws. See T&Cs on the website for full draw schedule. Notes: One entry per person

NEW FAMILY TRAVELLER MAGAZINE Effort Needed Closes: 28th February 2015 It’s one of our favourite sayings… the harder a comp is to enter, the easier it is to Prizes: 1 x Seven-night family holiday to Florida worth up to £4,500 win! Everything in this section may take a little extra time and effort, but why not Entry: www.familytraveller.com/feature/fort-myers give some of them a go? Don’t forget to check out our exclusive Windex database Advice: Two hours if you’re looking for slogan inspiration – www.compersnews.com/windex Notes: One entry per person NEW BESPOKE HOTELS

Closes: 31st January 2015 Prizes: 1 x Five-night family holiday to Sardinia worth over £6,000 Prizes: 1 x Overnight break for 2 at the Hotel Gotham, Entry: www.familytraveller.com/feature/win-an- Manchester including dinner and breakfast elegant-resorts-holiday-to-forte-villa Type: Caption Advice: Laguna Entry: Write a witty and/or clever caption to accompany Notes: One entry per person the photograph shown (which features a miserable- looking hotel porter surrounded by luggage). Enter Prizes: 1 x Four-night family break on the Isles of Scilly online at www.bespokehotels.com/pages/caption Entry: www.familytraveller.com/feature/win-a-four- Qualifier: None night-family-break-on-the-isles-of-scilly Notes: One entry per person Advice: More than 20,000 Notes: One entry per person NEW READER’S DIGEST Closes: 31st January 2015 NEW LONDON CRUISE SHOW Prizes: 1 x £500 cash, 2 x £75 cash Closes: 28th February 2015 Type: Writing Prizes: 1 x Seven-night Fly Mediterranean cruise for Entry: Write a short story using EXACTLY 100 words. Your story 2 – prize departs 19th September 2015 can be on absolutely any subject, but must be original Entry: www.cruisingshow.co.uk/london/comp2014-15 and unpublished. Enter online at www.readersdigest. Notes: One entry per person co.uk/100-word-story-competition, or email your entry to: [email protected] along with your NEW OCADO LIFE MAGAZINE full name, address, phone number and email address, Closes: 28th February 2015 putting ‘Adults’ in the subject line (there is also a children’s Prizes: 1 x Luxury five-night holiday for 2 to Dubai version of the competition running for schools). Entry: www.thp.sh/OCADO Qualifier: None

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NEW CANOPY & STARS Slogan: Tell or show us how you and your bestie seize the day (or night)… Closes: 6th February 2015 Word limit: None stated Prizes: 1 x Year of Holidays (prize consists of 4 UK breaks, Style: Not specified – T&Cs suggest that winner will be one each to be taken in spring, summer, autumn and randomly drawn, with entries not being judged. winter 2015), 3 x £100 Canopy & Stars voucher Notes: One entry per person Type: Wishlist Entry: Create your 2015 holiday wishlist by choosing your favourite NEW COMVITA OLIVE LEAF EXTRACT places to stay, and share the list with your friends via Closes: 27th February 2015 Facebook and/or Twitter using the hashtag #wishandwin. Prizes: 1 x Hamper of Comvita products worth over £200 Enter online at www.canopyandstars.co.uk/wish-win Type: Slogan Qualifier: None Entry: Enter online at http://go.comvita.com/secret-healthy Notes: One entry per person - you must also share your slogan via Facebook or Twitter to complete your entry NEW SLIMMING WORLD MAGAZINE Qualifier: None Closes: 12th February 2015 Slogan: My Secret to a Healthy Winter is… Prizes: 1 x Seven-night holiday for 2 to Portugal worth over £2,500 Word limit: 25 Type: Slogan Style: Not specified – T&Cs suggest that winner will be Entry: Entry form inside the Jan/Feb 2015 edition of Slimming World randomly drawn, with entries not being judged. magazine. Or for a free copy of the form, send a stamped Notes: One entry per person SAE to: Entry Form, Spabreaks.com Competition, Slimming World magazine, Clover Nook Road, Alfreton, Derbyshire NEW COMPERS NEWS EXCLUSIVE! DE55 4SW to arrive no later than 29th January 2015. Closes: 28th February 2015 Qualifier: The entry form Prizes: 1 x £50 Love2shop voucher, 3 x £10 Love2shop voucher Advice: Algarve Type: Slogan Slogan: I would love to win a holiday at the Grande Real Entry: Write your slogan on the official entry form in this month’s Santa Eulália Resort & Hotel Spa because… issue, or enter online at www.compersnews.com/competitions Word limit: 15 Qualifier: You must be a current, paid Compers News Style: Apt and original member as at the closing date Notes: One entry per person Slogan: I’m in love with comping this St Valentine’s Day because… Word limit: 15 Prizes: 1 x Two-night Ragdale Hall spa break for 2 worth £1,000 Style: Apt and original Type: Slogan Notes: One entry per person Entry: Entry form inside the Jan/Feb 2015 edition of Slimming World magazine. Or for a free copy of the form, send a stamped SAE to: Entry Form, Ragdale Hall Competition, Slimming NEW PETS AT HOME World magazine, Clover Nook Road, Alfreton, Derbyshire Closes: 28th February 2015 DE55 4SW to arrive no later than 29th January 2015. Prizes: 1 x £100 Pets at Home gift card Qualifier: The entry form Type: Caption Advice: Leicestershire Entry: Write a funny caption to accompany the photograph shown Slogan: I would love to win a break at Ragdale Hall because… (which features a budgerigar ‘talking’ to a toy snowman). Word limit: 15 Enter online at www.petsathome.com/captioncompetition Style: Apt and original Qualifier: None Notes: One entry per person Notes: One entry per person

NEW WONDERFUL NUTS ONGOING PHILIPS MALE SHAVING & GROOMING Closes: 15th February 2015 Closes: 28th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x Year’s supply of Wonderful nuts Prizes: 1 x Trip into space (expected to take place during 2016) Type: Estimation Type: Slogan Entry: Enter online at www.xxlmoments.eu Entry: Enter online at www.philips.co.uk/spacechallenges Advice: You must estimate the answers to 2 questions: 1. Qualifier: Purchase any Philips male shaving or grooming product How many Wonderful Pistachios bags are in the – you must upload a photo or video of yourself using photograph shown? 2. How many people will have the product when you enter the competition. participated in this competition by the closing date? Slogan: Tell us your ultimate space challenge… Qualifier: The unique code from any promotional Word limit: None stated Wonderful Pistachios or Almonds pack Style: Not specified – winner will be chosen on ‘individual merit’ Notes: One entry per person NEW OPTIONS HOT CHOCOLATE Closes: 23rd February 2015 NEW DAILY TELEGRAPH Prizes: 1 x Four-night trip for 2 to New York Closes: 15th March 2015 Type: Slogan Prizes: 2 x Amazon Kindle Voyage pre-loaded with the complete Entry: Enter online at www.facebook.com/OptionsHotChocolate series of John Shakespeare novels by Rory Clements, - look for any ‘Win a trip to New York’ post on the 10 x set of John Shakespeare paperback books page and add your entry as a comment. Type: Slogan Qualifier: None Entry: Enter online at www.telegraph.co.uk/roryclements

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Qualifier: None Notes: There are monthly competitions until the final closing Slogan: Why are you intrigued by the John Shakespeare series… date, each with the above prize fund to be won. Word limit: None stated Style: Not specified – T&Cs suggest that winners will be NEW NESCAFÉ COFFEE randomly drawn, with entries not being judged. Closes: 30th June 2015 ++ Notes: One entry per person Prizes: 6 x ‘Big Start’ for a deserving friend – prizes on offer include a personalised message of support to your friend in the form of ONGOING WKD BLUE a surprise event, a digital ad van with a personalised message, Closes: 31st March 2015 and a printed plane banner with a personalised message Prizes: 1 x Meet-and-greet with the cast of The Only Way Is Type: Slogan Essex, plus the chance to appear in the programme Entry: Nominate a friend that deserves a Big Start Type: Slogan at www.nescafe.co.uk/bigstart Entry: Enter online at www.wkd.co.uk/towie Qualifier: None Qualifier: The unique code from a promotional WKD Slogan: Why does your friend deserve a Big Start… Blue 10 x 275ml bottle pack Word limit: 120 Slogan: Tell us why you deserve to win a part in The Only Way Is Essex… Style: See T&Cs for detailed judging criteria Word limit: None stated Notes: One entry per person per month. There are 6 monthly Style: Demonstrate a knowledge of TOWIE, and show a WKD side competitions until the final closing date, each with at least one ‘Big Start’ prize to be won. NEW WAITROSE KITCHEN MAGAZINE Closes: 30th April 2015 ONGOING PRINCES TUNA Prizes: 1 x Seven-night fly-drive holiday for 2 to New Brunswick, Closes: 30th August 2015 ++ Canada, 3 x £250 John Lewis gift voucher Prizes: 1 x £5,000 cash, 12 x Princes hamper Type: Recipe Type: Recipe Entry: Create two original recipes (one of which must be a main course) Entry: Submit a favourite, original recipe using any Princes fish inspired by New Brunswick. Take your cue from the scenery, product. Enter online at www.winwithprinces.co.uk/tuna food, people, history, culture – or any aspect that excites Qualifier: The unique code from a promotional Princes Tuna pack you. Take photos of your dishes and write a brief description Notes: There are 12 monthly competitions until the final closing (up to 100 words) about the inspiration behind each. Then date, each with a Princes hamper to be won. At the end of submit your recipes, photos and descriptions along with your the promotion, one overall winner will be selected from all name, address and contact telephone number via Facebook the monthly winners and will receive the £5,000 prize. at www.facebook.com/newbrunswickrecipechallenge, email to: [email protected], or post your entry to: New Brunswick Recipe Challenge, Clover George Associates, Komping Kids PO Box 16, Market Deeping, Peterborough PE6 8TS. See Winning’s not just for grown-ups! Here’s a selection of current competitions and www.waitrose.com/newbrunswick for more details. prize draws, specially chosen for our younger readers. Qualifier: None Notes: Entrants must be aged 25 or over, hold a full UK NEW MEGA! MAGAZINE driving licence, and be available to attend a cook-off in Closes: 28th January 2015 London on 17th July 2015 if selected as a finalist. Prizes: 1 x PS4 console and Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 game, 5 x Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 game ONGOING BARCLAYS BANK Entry: Text COMP 8175A followed by a space and then your name and full Closes: 12th May 2015 ++ address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘A. MARIO GOTZE’ Prizes: 5,850 x Pair of Barclays Premier League football tickets with your name, address and phone number to: Type: Slogan [email protected] – putting ‘8175’ in the subject line. Entry: Enter online at www.youarefootball.barclays.co.uk – you can enter Notes: One entry per household on TUESDAYS ONLY between 19th August 2014 and 12th May 2015 Qualifier: None Prizes: 1 x PS3 console, Kingdom Hearts game and set of two Slogan: Tell us why you are passionate about football… Play Arts figurines, 3 x Kingdom Hearts game Word limit: Maximum 140 characters Entry: Text COMP 8189B followed by a space and then your name and Style: Not specified – T&Cs suggest that winners will be full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘B. PLAYSTATION randomly drawn, with entries not being judged. 3’ with your name, address and phone number to: Notes: One entry per person per week. There are 39 weekly competitions [email protected] – putting ‘8189’ in the subject line. until the final closing date, each with 150 prizes to be won. Notes: One entry per household

ONGOING RUST-OLEUM Prizes: 8 x Set of six LEGO Bionicle Protectors Closes: 31st May 2015 ++ Entry: Text COMP 8186A followed by a space and then your name Prizes: 1 x £250 cash, 10 x bumper pack of Rust-Oleum spray paints and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘A. SKULL Type: Design SPIDERS’ with your name, address and phone number to: Entry: Submit a photo of a project you’ve undertaken using Rust- [email protected] – putting ‘8186’ in the subject line. Oleum spray paint. Each month, the judges will select the Notes: One entry per household most original and creative projects. Enter the competition online at www.rustoleumspraypaint.com/competition Prizes: 7 x Turtles Battroborg set Qualifier: None Entry: Text COMP 8174B followed by a space and then your name and full

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address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘B. PURPLE’ Prizes: 1 x Kindle Fire loaded with four adventure with your name, address and phone number to: books, 9 x set of four adventure books [email protected] – putting ‘8174’ in the subject line. Entry: Text COMP DWA8203B followed by a space and then your Notes: One entry per household name and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘B. DAVROS’ with your name, age, address and phone number to: Prizes: 1 x Bundle of gadgets including RC Recon Video Bot, underwater [email protected] – putting ‘8203’ in the subject line. camera, Scalextric Arc One and more, worth over £400 Notes: One entry per household Entry: Text COMP 8177B followed by a space and then your name and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘B. R2-D2’ NEW GIRL TALK MAGAZINE with your name, address and phone number to: Closes: 4th February 2015 [email protected] – putting ‘8177’ in the subject line. Prizes: 1 x PS3 console, Kingdom Hearts game and set of two Notes: One entry per household Play Arts figurines, 3 x Kingdom Hearts game Entry: Text COMP GT8268C followed by a space and then your name, NEW THE BEANO age and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘C. Closes: 31st January 2015 MOUSE’ with your name, age, address and phone number to: Prizes: 6 x R/C Nikko Decepticon Lockdown Streetcar [email protected] – putting ‘8268’ in the subject line. Entry: Phone 0901 030 1093 (26p), or text BEANO Notes: One entry per household CAR followed by a space and then your answer, name and address to 84555 (25p + SR). NEW LEGO FRIENDS MAGAZINE Advice: A) Bounty hunter Closes: 4th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x iPad Mini plus set of four LEGO Friends Prizes: 15 x Set of two Horrible Science kits books, 6 x set of four LEGO Friends books Entry: Phone 0901 030 1094 (26p), or text BEANO Entry: Text COMP FRI8150A followed by a space and then your name SCIENCE followed by a space and then your answer, and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘A. name and address to 84555 (25p + SR). CINDERELLA’ with your name, age, address and phone number to: Advice: B) 100°C [email protected] – putting ‘8150’ in the subject line. Notes: One entry per household Prizes: 1 x Set of two Belly Bump Ball inflatable battle suits Entry: Phone 0901 030 0395 (26p), or text BEANO Prizes: 4 x Bundle of three LEGO Friends playsets BUMP followed by a space and then your answer, Entry: Text COMP FRI8151B followed by a space and then your name name and address to 84555 (25p + SR). and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘B. IN Advice: A) The dodgems THE SKY’ with your name, age, address and phone number to: [email protected] – putting ‘8151’ in the subject line. NEW 110% GAMING MAGAZINE Notes: One entry per household Closes: 4th February 2015 Prizes: 5 x LEGO Minifigures Online prize bundle worth £50 NEW TOP OF THE POPS MAGAZINE Entry: Email your answer, name, age and address to: win@110gaming Closes: 4th February 2015 .com – putting LEGO MINIFIGURES COMP in the subject line. Prizes: 1 x Year’s supply of make-up from Barry M Advice: C) Carpenter (52 products) worth over £250 Entry: Text COMP TOTP8190C followed by a space and then your Prizes: 3 x Touch Speaker Pro portable speaker worth £27 name and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer Entry: Email your answer, name, age and address to: win@110gaming ‘C. MANGO’ with your name and full address to: .com – putting COOL STUFF COMP in the subject line. [email protected] – putting ‘8190’ in the subject line. Advice: A) Blank Space Notes: One entry per household

NEW DOCTOR WHO ADVENTURES MAGAZINE Prizes: 1 x The X Factor Live Tour 2015 family ticket plus a phone call Closes: 4th February 2015 from Stereo Kicks, 4 x The X Factor Live Tour 2015 family ticket Prizes: 1 x Family ticket to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff including Entry: Text COMP TOTP8206B followed by a space and then your overnight accommodation, up to £200 travel expenses, and your name and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer chance to be a special reporter with the story about your day ‘B. LOUIS WALSH’ with your name and full address to: printed in the magazine, 5 x Doctor Who Experience family ticket [email protected] – putting ‘8206’ in the subject line. Entry: Text COMP DWA8219A followed by a space and then your Notes: One entry per household name and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘A. WALES’ with your name, age, address and phone number to: Prizes: 1 x TOTP magazine signed by Zoella and a Girl [email protected] – putting ‘8219’ in the subject line. Online goody bag, 1 x Girl Online goody bag Notes: One entry per household Entry: Text COMP TOTP8220A followed by a space and then your name and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the Prizes: 15 x Set of five LEGO DC Comic Hero key rings answer ‘A. JOE’ with your name and full address to: Entry: Text COMP DWA8202A followed by a space and then your [email protected] – putting ‘8220’ in the subject line. name and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘A. Notes: One entry per household SKARO’ with your name, age, address and phone number to: [email protected] – putting ‘8202’ in the subject line. Prizes: 1 x Selection of celebrity perfumes worth over £250 Notes: One entry per household Entry: Text COMP TOTP8221A followed by a space and then your name

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and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer Prizes: 1 x Family ticket to see The X Factor Live Tour at ‘A. PURR’ with your name and full address to: the O2 Arena in London on 21st March 2015 [email protected] – putting ‘8221’ in the subject line. Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Notes: One entry per household to: Girl 209, X FACTOR, LCD Publishing, Vici House, 2 Mallard Road, Exeter EX2 7LD. Or email: comps@lcdpublishing. NEW MY BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS MAGAZINE co.uk with ‘GIRL 209 / X FACTOR’ in the subject line. Closes: 7th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x Disney Frozen Royal Sisters doll set NEW STAR GIRL MAGAZINE Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard Closes: 20th February 2015 to: My Beautiful Princess 92, LCD Publishing, Vici House, 2 Prizes: 10 x School for Stars book Mallard Road, Exeter EX2 7LD. Or email: comps@lcdpublishing. Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard to: co.uk with ‘My Beautiful Princess 92’ in the subject line. Star Girl 219, SCHOOL, LCD Publishing, Vici House, 2 Mallard Road, Exeter EX2 7LD. Or email: [email protected] NEW ANIMALS & YOU MAGAZINE with ‘STAR GIRL 219 / SCHOOL’ in the subject line. Closes: 10th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x £100 Urban Pup voucher, 6 x £25 Urban Pup Prizes: 3 x Jelly Fun Slushy Maker voucher, 6 x Barbie & Me Colour-Change Glam Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard to: Bag, 10 x Now That’s What I Call Disney CD Star Girl 219, SLUSHY, LCD Publishing, Vici House, 2 Mallard Entry: Email your full name, age, address, phone number and Road, Exeter EX2 7LD. Or email: [email protected] parent/guardian consent to: prizes@animalsandyou. with ‘STAR GIRL 219 / SLUSHY’ in the subject line. co.uk – putting ‘Issue No. 184’ in the subject line. NEW GO GIRL MAGAZINE Prizes: 3 x Bundle of three LEGO Friends Jungle playsets Closes: 28th February 2015 Entry: Send your answer, full name, age, address and parent/guardian Prizes: 1 x Taylor Swift goodie bag signature on a postcard to: LEGO Friends Jungle, Animals and Entry: Send your name, age, address and phone number on You No. 184, DC Thomson, 80 Kingsway East, Dundee DD4 8SL a postcard to: Totally Taylor, Go Girl magazine, PO Advice: B) Cub Box 6988, Sleaford, Lincolnshire NG34 9WE Notes: One entry per household. A selection of Go Girl competitions NEW GIRL TALK ART MAGAZINE can also be entered online at www.gogirlmag.co.uk/wins Closes: 11th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x iPad mini and AmiGami set, 19 x AmiGami set NEW PETS AT HOME Entry: Text COMP GT8244B followed by a space and then your name Closes: 28th February 2015 and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘B. ARIANA Prizes: 2 x Fish R Fun Fish Bowl Kit GRANDE’ with your name, age, address and phone number to: Entry: Design an awesome castle ornament for a fish tank. Enter using [email protected] – putting ‘8244’ in the subject line. the template and entry form inside My VIP magazine (Issue 8, Notes: One entry per household Winter 2014), available at participating Pets At Home stores. Notes: One entry per person. Entrants must be aged under 18. NEW HORRIBLE HISTORIES MAGAZINE Winners will be selected at random from all entries. Closes: 11th February 2015 Prizes: 1 x Razor E100 electric scooter ONGOING HONEY MONSTER Entry: Text COMP HH8224A followed by a space and then your name, Closes: 7th April 2015 ++ age and full address to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘A. Prizes: 24 x Football Skills week (prize is available at a choice of venues, CHARIOTS’ with your name, age, address and phone number is non-residential and is only suitable for children aged 5-16) to: [email protected] – putting ‘8224’ in the subject line. Entry: Enter online at www.honeymonster.co.uk/hmfootieskills Notes: One entry per household Notes: One entry per person. There are 12 monthly draws until the final closing date, each with 2 prizes to be won. Prizes: 25 x Henry VIII or Queen Victoria children’s costume Entry: Text COMP HH8225B followed by a space and then your NEW HORRIBLE HISTORIES ANNUAL 2015 name, age, full address and prize choice/size (see Notes) Closes: 13th April 2015 to 66644 (SR). Or email the answer ‘B. 1837-1901’ with your Prizes: 3 x Horrible Histories putrid prize pack including theatre name, age, address, phone number and prize choice/size to: tickets, books, stationery and more, plus your poem [email protected] – putting ‘8225’ in the subject line. published in the Horrible Histories Annual 2016 Notes: One entry per household. When entering, state which Entry: Write a four-line rhyme or five-line limerick about any costume you’d like if you’re a winner (Henry VIII or Queen historical person or event featured in the Horrible Histories Victoria), and your size – 7-9 (medium) or 10-12 (large). Annual 2015. If you can’t find a copy of the annual, some of the subjects featured include: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Guy NEW GIRL MAGAZINE Fawkes, The Crusades, Sir Francis Drake & The Spanish Closes: 20th February 2015 Armada, The Gunpowder Plot, The French Guillotine and Prizes: 5 x Shaun the Sheep Movie goodie bag World War 1. Send your entry with your name, age, address Entry: Send your name, address and phone number on a postcard to: and parent/guardian signature on the reverse to: Horrible Girl 209, SHEEP, LCD Publishing, Vici House, 2 Mallard Road, Histories Annual 2015 Competition, Scholastic Children’s Exeter EX2 7LD. Or email: [email protected] Books, Euston House, 24 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1DB with ‘GIRL 209 / SHEEP’ in the subject line. Notes: One entry per person. Entrants must be aged under 18.

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NEW WEETABIX www.itv.com/goodmorningbritain/competitions. Phone and text lines close at Closes: 24th May 2015 ++ midday on 23rd January 2015 – so you might already be too late unless you’re Prizes: 90 x Weetabuddy Creator Kit reading our digital edition – but the free web entry route doesn’t close until Entry: Design your very own Weetabuddy using a Weetabix biscuit midday on 29th January 2015, so you should still have time to enter online. and any other kitchen ingredients. Take a photo of your Apologies for cutting it so fine with the closing date, but we didn’t want you to creation, give it a name and write a brief description, and miss out on such a big prize. Maximum 5 entries per phone number. enter the competition online at www.weetabuddies.com Notes: Maximum 3 entries per household per day. Although this NEW Make a purchase on eBay and have it delivered via the new collection competition is clearly aimed at children, entries must be made by service at participating Argos stores, and you could win 1 x £1,500 worth of a parent/guardian on the child’s behalf. Entries will be judged on Argos vouchers or 5 x £200 worth of Argos vouchers. Enter the draw at www. the following criteria: Imagination, Care & Effort, Taste, Health. argos.co.uk/fmcompetition - where you’ll need to input your Argos / eBay There are 89 daily competitions between 1st January and 30th March 2015 inclusive, each with one prize to be won. Entries collection code. Only one entry per person, closing date is 31st January 2015. received between 31st March and 24th May 2015 inclusive will go into a final, random mop-up draw with one further prize to be won. NEW Weight Watchers Yogurt has a personal shopper experience at Debenhams with £200 to spend, a year’s supply of Weight Watchers Greek Style yogurts or NEW PEPPA PIG HOME BAKING RANGE desserts and a set of kitchen scales on offer for one lucky winner. Enter the Closes: 31st December 2020 ++ draw by emailing your name, address, phone number, email address, gender Prizes: 1 x Peppa Pig prize each month until the final closing date and date of birth to: [email protected]. Only one entry per Entry: Purchase any Peppa Pig Home Baking product featuring this household, closing date is 28th February 2015. competition (Peppa Pig Muddy Puddle Cup Cake Mix, Biscuit Mix, Cookie Mix, Celebration Tray Cake Mix), bake the product and NEW Prima magazine is giving away a £1,000 Laura Ashley shopping spree to one send in a photo of your creation. Enter by sending an email to: lucky winner. To enter the draw, email your details to: primafashiongiveaway@ [email protected] or by post to: Peppa Pig’s hearst.co.uk. Only one entry per person, closing date is 5th February 2015. Muddy Puddle Competition, Symington’s, Far Lane, Leeds LS9 0DN (NB – this address is slightly different on some promotional packs NEW There’s a Baby & Toddler Event at selected Tesco stores between 14th depending on the product purchased, so check the instructions on January and 4th February 2015, including a prize draw with a seven-night your pack before entering). Your entry must include a photograph of the product(s) made along with your name, address, email address family holiday to Florida on offer for one lucky winner. The draw is promoting and parent/guardian phone number, and must also quote the Best the Tesco Baby Club, but we can’t see anything in the T&Cs that says you must Before End date of the promotional pack that has been used. be a member of the club to enter – you can find full details atwww.tesco-baby. Notes: One entry per household per month. Entrants must be aged 16 or com/win-family-holiday-florida if you want to check things out for yourself. To under. There will be a random draw each month until the final closing enter, send your name, address and phone number to: competitions@tesco- date, each with one prize to be won. Entries do not roll over and baby.co.uk – putting ‘Orlando holiday’ in the subject line. Only one entry per will go into one draw only, for the month in which they’re received. person, closing date is 4th February 2015.

NEW Essentials magazine has a Judge Slow Cooker up for grabs, worth £48. Lucky Numbers Email your name, address and phone number to: comps_essentials@timeinc. Here’s a selection of winning numbers from this month’s biggest and best com – putting JUDGE in the subject line. Closing date is 4th February 2015. Lucky Numbers games. We’ve phoned the premium-rate numbers and sent the expensive texts where at all possible so that YOU don’t have to, saving you time NEW The latest issue of Real Living magazine, available free at participating AND money! Harveys furniture stores, features two prize draws. To try for a four-night NEW IDEAL HOME MAGAZINE midweek break for 4 at a choice of nine Forest Holidays sites throughout the Closes: 17th February 2015 UK, email your name, address, phone number and details of where you got your Prizes: 1 x £30,000 cash, 1 x £15,000 cash, 1 x £10,000 free magazine (we suggest that you just give details of your nearest Harveys cash, 5 x £400 cash, 10 x £300 cash store) to: [email protected] – putting ‘Harveys Entry: Check the lucky number on the cover of the February Forest competition’ in the subject line. Only one entry per person, closing date 2015 issue of Ideal Home magazine by post, phone or is 31st January 2015. text following the instructions in the magazine. Notes: Following a change in format of this magazine’s Lucky NEW Or to go into the draw for a Hartham kitchen larder worth £1,725, email Numbers game, a list of winning numbers is no longer your name, address, phone number and details of where you got your free available and you must now check your own individual magazine to: [email protected] – putting ‘Harveys number. Postal applications must arrive by 27th January kitchen competition’ in the subject line. Only one entry per person, closing date 2015. Phone and text lines close on 3rd February 2015. is 31st January 2015. Final date for prize claims is 17th February 2015. NEW Tesco are running a prize draw on their Ken Hom ready meals to celebrate Bits ‘N’ Pieces Chinese New Year later this month. To enter the draw, go to www.facebook. com/ChefKenHom, www.kenhom.co.uk or scan stickers on special packs of Ken This is where you’ll find anything that doesn’t fit into any of the above categories… a veritable pot-pourri of prizes! Hom ready meals at participating Tesco stores and complete your details. You’ll be able to enter the draw between 11th February and 3rd March 2015, and 21 NEW ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme is giving away a £52,000 winners will each receive a signed Ken Hom cookery book, signed Ken Hom cash prize to one lucky winner. To enter the draw, phone 0904 161 9000 wok and a selection of Ken Hom ready meals. Only one entry per person, final (£1.54), text WIN to 82248 (£1.50 + SR), or enter for free online at closing date is 3rd March 2015.

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February 2015 Compers News 39 Puzzle 6 WINCompetition News £50 CASH HOW TO ENTER To get into the mood for Valentine’s Day each one of the anagrams here can be rearranged to make the title of a Love Song. Link each Love Song back to the artist / band in the photographs, do this correctly and you will have one Love Song left over. What is the name of the artist / band responsible for this Love Song? This is your prize answer to be written on the entry form on page 13.

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