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    Marks & Spencer free car wash

    For those who like their vehicles clean, now may be the time to take advantage of a new Marks & Spencer promotion that offers motorists free car washes for a year in exchange for signing into a car insurance premium with the company.

    The deal includes 12 car washes if they sign up for the M&S premium via moneysupermarket.com a consumer website.

    The offer is valued at around £84 and is only available to drivers until February 28th.  The car washes are awarded in the form of vouchers that can be used at any ARC IMO location.

    Also included in the insurance premium is break down coverage and an additional £1,000 towards locksmith services, repairing locks, or replacing keys.

    Head of motor insurance at moneysupermarket.com, Steve Sweeney, commented that the offer is a great way for consumers to get the most out of their insurance premiums and that it is a great incentive.

    The consumer website also advised their customers in January that if their premiums continued to rise as many are they should look for a better deal which just so happens may now be available.

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    Virgin Media free landline to mobile calls

    Customers who purchase their landline service from Virgin Media will now be able to make free phone calls from their landlines to any Virgin mobile.

    Manager of mobiles and broadband at moneysupermarket.com, Mike Wilson, stated that the news is a great deal for those who already have Virgin Media plans and is a great incentive for others who use pay per use phones to consider switching their phone service providers.

    When Virgin officially starts the free service offer on April 1st it will become the first phone provider to offer free landline calls to mobile phones.

    Those who currently use one Virgin service but not the other may want to look again at the new package deals from Virgin that offer bundles of television, broadband, and landline together since it may pay off with the new free phone call perk.

    According to Wilson, purchasing a bundle package from Virgin can save the average consumer almost £130 per year.

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    Win flights to Paris

    As the winter starts to drag on and the Christmas holiday season is becoming a memory, most people could use something to look forward to in January, which is why the prospect of winning free return flights to Paris during the half term may lift your spirits.

    Magic 1152 and Air France are teaming up to offer flights to a few lucky winners of return flights to Paris Charles de Guelle from Newcastle International Airport.

    After all, after a short direct flight you can spend a day wondering through the Notre Dame Cathedral, looking down on the fairy tale city from the Eiffel Tower, or catching some wind on the roller coasters at Disneyland Paris and Asterix Park.

    Young children and animal lovers will also love the Thoiry Science park or the Paris Science Museum and adults can also have a romantic dinner for two meaning that a trip to Paris just may be something the entire family needs.

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    Luxury Dubai Holiday worth £12,500 won for £49.99 at Bidfella.com

    Bidfella.com’s recently launched ’star’ auction has just been won by Lynn Matthews of Brighton – a luxury Dubai holiday valued at £12,500.

    The auction was won by Ms Lynn Matthews of Brighton.  The trip includes,  First Class suites on Emirates Airlines new A380 service to Dubai for two, 7 nights at Le Royal Méridien Beach Resort And Spa 5* Deluxe hotel and £2000 spending money.

    Ms Matthews, spent £39 bidding on the auction to win it.  It’s by the far the biggest prize she has ever one.  She said: “I did win a Nano iPod on one of my free bids. I can honestly say I was delighted then too. The most I have ever won in life is the odd tenner on the lottery and now look at us. We are off to Dubai and I have an iPod I can use whilst lounging around the pool soaking up some rays!!”

    The Luxury Dubai Holiday is the first of many dream holidays to be auctioned by Bidfella.com.  The site offers many other items for users to bid on, including laptops, T’s, digital cameras and game consoles amongst its diverse range.  According to the site, products auctioned by Bidfella.com have usually been sold at a 90-99% discount compared to their retail cost.

    Website: www.bidfella.com

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    Wink Bingo offers £15 just for signing up

    When it comes to online bingo, Wink Bingo is perceived as ‘the place’ to play.  This is due to the fact that the website maintains a large presence both in virtual media and in the real world.  Of course, the success is also aided in that Wink Bingo now offers a registration bonus of £15 of free play without requiring any initial deposit.

    Wink continues to remain one of the top places to play bingo by offering great deals such as a new sign up offer every week, with their current offer being one that bingo players will want to check out.  This is because even if you do not win anything from bingo, you can still get some money from the Wink Bingo Cashback for Life program.

    The Cashback for Life scheme rewards bingo players for choosing to play at Wink by offering them 10% of all losses from the previous week.  The minimum deposit for cash back is only one pound, so with just ten pounds of play you can start to earn cash back.  If you combine the free bingo registration and £15 bonus with the cashback for life scheme, you can actually earn £1.50 even if you lose!

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    Hosted Exchange has a host of free utilities

    For IT users Hosted Exchange is worth checking out because it offers a wide variety of free services that may streamline, and thus benefit a business.

    Although most SMEs use a POP3 service to access their email accounts, Hosted Exchange has more to offer it users since it allows SMEs to have more control over their email accounts, enhanced security.

    One of the perks of using Hosted Exchange is that all email is delivered in real time, which means that you never need to refresh the screen, and also means that you can enjoy the benefits of real time, even when away from your desk if you have mobile devices that have email applications.

    Additionally, the service comes with a Blackberry and Hosted Exchange integration so that you can always handle your workload from any location and get important updates at anytime from anywhere.

    As mentioned, Hosted Exchange is also able to provide a high level of security to a business as well since email is stored on host servers instead of on a PC, which means that all files are guaranteed and backed up on a regular basis so that you never have to be concerned about data loss or damage.  Of course, the package also comes with a full suite of protection against spam and viruses.

    Finally, Hosted Exchange is able to offer an archiving tool that can help SME’s that demand a large amount of mailbox space in a climate that normally can run up large costs.

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    Free journalism masterclasses from BBC’s top correspondents

    According to plans that will be formally announced today, the public will now be able to head online for free access to masterclasses by some the most well known journalists of the BBC including John Humphrys and John Simpson.

    The new plan by BBC executives will allow licence-fee payers to use the internal website where there are thousands of hours of clips stored as part of a new collection of partnership deals.  Additionally, rival broadcasters and other news organizations can access the material achieves.

    According to the BBC, the website has the most comprehensive collection of clips of any website of its type in the world.  Other contributors to the large archive space include Frank Gardner the security correspondent and Robert Peston the BBC business editor.

    The plan becomes official today at the BBC Academy launch, which is the new dedicated centre of the BBC for training in technology, production, journalism, and leadership.

    The BBC is said to claim the new access initiatives as part of a completely fresh strategy that will allow the wider access to the news corporations training skills and resources to help support and educate the larger UK media industry sector.

    The training website that will provide the access is part of the BBC College of Journalism, which is an internal BBC resource that teaches skills such as values and ethics.  The site is free to access from any point within the UK, but outside of the count a subscription will be required.

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    Free library browsing of virtual books

    Wooden Books, the arts publisher based in Glastonbury, announced that the company will now put its entire library of books posted online for free reading.

    The move is unprecedented and will be assuredly closely watched by others in the book trade.  The new website that will offer the free access will launch to the public on February 1st, 2010.

    The site is under development with E-commerce specialists, Egonet, and will allow users to browse the entire content of all of its books from cover to cover using a new search facility that allows readers to digitally flip each page on their own and skip around in the book.

    Access is only offered for twenty minutes per day at which point readers can choose whether they want to purchase the actual book in print edition or purchase the e-format of the novel.  Page content of each of the books will also be searchable in full glory via search engines.

    John Martineau, the founder publisher of Wooden Books came up with the idea that he sees as a unique shopping experience for online consumers.

    He stated that as online retailing and web technology becomes more advanced it is now harder for retailers to stand out among their competitors, thus as a small publisher this is an innovative way to stay on top of the market and bring in more web traffic.

    Martineau continued to say that the company’s hope is that in the same way people browse in a bookshop and then decide to purchase books they will browse online and then choose to purchase books.

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    Free Bingo games with cash prizes

    At some point by the weekend most people feel tired after a long work week.  Many people also feel that even though they would like to do something wild to release the stress, their wallet simply will not permit such activities.  That is why Giggle Bingo and Sun Bingo may be the perfect way to spend your evenings.

    Both of the popular online Bingo websites are offering their customers a chance to cash in on free games, in which it costs nothing to play, but the jackpot and winnings are still allotted in cash. Thus, you can spend a few hours playing bingo at either website for nothing and possibly end up with some cash for your weekend by the end of your game, which is not such a rough way to spend a few hours on a Friday night.

    The Giggle Bingo promotion happens across eight games every Friday night from the time spans of 8pm and 10:54pm.  Each of the eight games has a jackpot of at least £50 and it costs nothing to play.  Additionally, if you are already a member of the website and have a Bingo Ball for Life number you can potentially get another £20 if your ball pops up.

    Sun Bingo on the other hand is giving out free cash during its week of free games to anyone who is registered with the site which does not cost anything to join.  The free week kicked off on New Year’s Eve and lasts between 8pm to 10pm every night this week.

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    Up to half price flooring and a free case of wine with yourfloors.co.uk

    Feel the warmth of a new carpet this Winter and let family and friends sink their toes into a sumptuous, deep carpet as they prepare to open their Christmas presents. From as little as £150 per room a carpet can be chosen, ordered, purchased and fitted

    yourfloors.co.uk wine offer

    And the best bit? You don’t even have to leave the comfort of your own home and fight the Christmas crowds, you can easily purchase your new flooring online at www.yourfloors.co.uk, while in your jim jams!

    This Winter at yourfloors.co.uk we’re offering up to half price off on selected lines and as an extra treat and to get you in the festive mood a Free Case of Wine worth £45 with every order over £150!

    To view our wonderful winter special offers got to www.yourfloors.co.uk/specialoffers

    Now that’s what you call festive spirit!

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