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April 29th, 2008
10:53 am
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What started off as a mystery text message has now developed into a serious data protection issue for postcard compers. On the 19th April 2008, Midastouch reported that she’d received a random text message from ‘Dave’, who we’ll call the mystery mobile man. She soon learnt that the mystery mobile man had found her details, [More Details]
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April 11th, 2008
9:55 am
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We like finding strange competition stories and this one from This is South Wales highlights why honesty is the best policy, but if you can’t be honest (shame on you) then keep your mouth firmly shut, especially on the web!
According to the report the original winners of an all expenses paid wedding became divorced from [More Details]
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April 1st, 2008
12:06 am
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UK compers face the prospect of having to pay tax on their winnings and on their competition entries if new government tax proposals are finalised in The House of Lord. Under the scheme competition promoters would be forced to inform tax offices of entry details and winner details so that the new ‘compers tax’ can [More Details]
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March 20th, 2008
6:22 pm
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Every year Fanta run a massive competition and 2008 is going to no exception as on April 1st they’re launching a great new giveaway. It’s called Want It Win It and the competition is running in association with Play.com. The competition will run from 1st April for 12 weeks - and there are loads of [More Details]
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January 20th, 2008
11:26 pm
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An article in The Sunday Mirror reports that lucky Lorna Carr has won £1million from a newspaper scratchcard. She spotted the scratchcard after it fell from her sunday newspaper magazine and had a go. The result was she became Purely Creative’s first million pound winner.
So who are Purely Creative?
Well, they’re the company who produce [More Details]
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January 19th, 2008
11:52 am
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This week compers have been receiving letters from a brand new localised Prize Register service. Stockport, Milton Keynes, Cardiff, Wigan, Birmingham, Manchester, Portsmouth, Wolverhampton, Stoke on Trent, Torquay, Sheffield and Carlisle are just some of the “lucky” UK areas who now have their own Prize Register. We’re also told there’s a Northern Ireland one too!
The [More Details]
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January 11th, 2008
11:15 pm
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Susmans Suspend Their Competition
As of 11th January Biltong have stopped their competition. A note on their website states “Unfortunately we have suspended this until further notice due to a sad person abusing this great competition”. Loquax has contacted Biltong and are hoping to find out what has happened. Why anyone would abuse this competition is [More Details]
Loquax has received a number of emails today from the latest competition winners at computer game review site AceGamez. This is obviously in response to a note we’ve had on Loquax about if anyone won prizes with this site.
We can safely say that they do! Here are just a few of the emails we [More Details]
