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Take a trip to South West London’s best shopping mall, The Bentall Centre, during January 2012, and pick up your free and revealing ‘Bagology reading’. If you are someone who carries around 2 mobile phones in your bag, or numerous lipsticks, or won’t leave the house without your travel sized hand moisturiser, then this reading will tell you the deeper story about both you and your personality.
The Bentall Centre has teamed up with Debbie Percy, the leading bagologist in the UK, to offer a limited amount of free handbags reading via The Bentall Centre Facebook page.
HOW TO ENTER:
It’s simple – just visit www.facebook.com/TheBentallCentre, ‘like’ the page, take a photo of the contents of your handbag and then upload it to the Facebook Wall. Three bags will be randomly selected by Debbie every weekday (excluding weekends) for a detailed reading and her analysis published underneath each photo. To be considered for selection, uploads must be made between 1st January & 29th March 2012. Please note that by uploading your photograph there is NO guarantee of receiving a reading.
RULES:
This is not a competition, but by uploading a picture of your handbag contents for analysis it is assumed that you have read and agreed to the Terms and Conditions of this event. This process is open to both men and women anywhere in the world. The acceptance, disqualification or deletion of uploaded pictures, without explanation or prior notification is entirely at the discretion of The Bentall Centre. Content should only be submitted by someone of 16 years and above. Only one upload is permitted per person. Photographs can be submitted up until 12pm on 29th February 2012 or until 60 bag readings have been completed by Debbie.
 Two Milton Keynes restaurants are offering local nurses a free meal as a way of showing their appreciation for all their hard work throughout the year and over the festive period. Wolverton House, located on Waterside, and Stratford Road’s Peartree Bridge Inn are both providing free carvery meals to nurses who turn up with their NHS identification between January 9 and 14.
Matthew Trimmer and Calum Sims made the decision to reward nurses from local hospitals and health centres when they learned that nearly 90,000 of them have to work on Christmas Day each year, sacrificing their festive period to help others. Trimmer added that a free meal was the least that Crown Carveries could do to show their appreciation for all their hard work.
Nurses in the Milton Keynes area can download a coupon from the venues websites and present it at either Wolverton House or the Peartree Bridge Inn for a carvery on the house. Calum Sims of Wolverton House hoped that local nursing staff will appreciate the gesture from Crown Carveries as a thank you for all their hard work over Christmas and the New Year.
 Budding wordsmiths and Scrabble fans can now get their hands on one of the UK’s biggest dictionaries for free, with the number of available definitions increasing by March 2012. HarperCollins, the Glaswegian publisher, has decided to put its Collins Language range of dictionaries online – and will not be charging users a fee.
Currently, crossword solvers and poor spellers have access to almost 130,000 definitions and spellings on the collinsdictionary.com website, with plans for the number of words available to increase to over 200,000 in the next few months. Collins Language is one of the first academic dictionaries to put their data and definitions on the web, providing some serious competition to the existing free language aids that can already be found online.
In addition, the Collins Language site plans to include audio files, providing a guide to the correct pronunciation while tourists can access information on some of the most common words or phrases in dozens of foreign languages. The company also plans to make the most of the Internet’s capabilities by including links to the defined word on the file sharing site Flickr, allowing searchers to see an image of, as well as reading about, the subject involved.
Head of digital media at Collins Language, Alex Brown, is far from convinced that online word finders mean that language lovers will have no need for old-fashioned paper dictionaries. In fact, he sees the online version of the long-established publication as an opportunity to expand the services that Collins Language can provide.
Mr Brown added that he is excited about a future feature that will track the usage of certain words through history, illustrating when slang came into and then drifted out of fashion, while an Internet version of the Collins Dictionary can provide more in-depth definitions and explanations as there is no limit on the space allowed for each word.
 Apple’s Christmas promotion runs for 12 days between Boxing Day and 6th January, and one of the applications that has been featured in the promotion is Snapseed, which is a photo editing application from the developers, Nik Software.
This is a photography tool that allows you to apply a set of filters to pictures you’ve taken with your phone or other Apple device. It has the ability to analyse your photo and make automatic adjustments to exposure and colour so that the picture appears at its best.
Enhancements and precise selections can be made in the picture by using your fingers, which utilises the excellent touchscreen’s available on Apple devices. Brightness, saturation and contrast can be adjusted in this manner and the application usually retails at £2.99.
Apple have run this promotion for several years during Christmas period and many free applications as well as music and books are given away. Every day a new application is released at no charge and is marketed as a present from Apple. There is an e-mail alert newsletter available so that users of Apple devices can be informed about what free application is available on a certain day without having to visit the App Store.
 Preparations are now officially underway for National Smile month 2012, the biggest ever oral health campaign in the UK. This new campaign has been kick started with the 10,000 smileys being given away, which is the official campaign symbol, and the launch of a new website to give information and assistance online.
The first 2000 organisations who are eligible to register can do so online and receive 5 free smileys as well as getting an exclusive sneak preview of the most successful oral health campaign to ever take place in the UK, which has been completely overhauled and re-branded for 2012. Jointly sponsored by Wrigley, Oral-B, Macleans and Listerine, this new campaign is set to hit the high street with a bang.
High street supporters include Argos, Aldi, Lloyds Pharmacy and Argos and they are helping to promote the key messages the campaign is trying to get across that will give you great oral health. These are the likes of brushing your teeth twice daily using fluoride toothpaste, cut down on the amount and frequency that you have sugary drinks and food, and visit your dentist regularly, at least as often as they recommend.
Simon Howell is the director of campaigns and fund raising for the British Dental Foundation and he says that after the huge success of the 2011 campaign, they consulted with health professionals, their partners and sponsors as to how they could make this years National Smile month even bigger and better.
He added that as a result of these they had announced the details of the campaign much earlier than last time and had totally re-branded the campaign to create even more opportunities for both existing and new supporters and organisations in order to help to spread the message of how to achieve great oral health.
 A shop that is the first of its kind and gives away books for free has opened is Slough town centre. Set up by the Rotarians, there will be 2 tonnes of literature up for grabs at the new Rotary Slough Literacy Centre that has opened next door to River Island is Slough High Street.
Phil Astles is the Slough Rotarian who is behind the project, and he has said that this shop does what it says on the tin, they will give free books away to anyone who drops in. He added that there is a massive selection of books and everyone who enters the shop can take away a maximum of 2 free books, there are no books for sale, and if you want more that 2 then you’ll have to take someone in with you and get them to pick them up.
The shop is to be open every Saturday, and as well as the thousands of books there is also to be a reading area and Spelt UK will be running literacy lessons. Mr Astles went onto say that they are hoping that after a few months it will become something really special in Slough, and the main purpose was to put a club with its heart in Slough into the community’s heart and ultimately promote the Rotary club and the good work it does.
The majority of the books have been donated by Healthy Planet, and are part of an initiative that aims to rescue books that had been destined for the landfill. The shop will be manned by both Rotarians and volunteers, and they have also been donating books.
 The wait for one of the most lucrative online bingo games ever is almost over, as Wink Bingo, one of the best known bingo sites online are about to hold their massive game at 8pm on New Years Day. For months, members have been collecting points that can be converted into tickets to play the game, and now that that promotion is over players have to purchase tickets to play that cost £5 each.
The winner of this game of bingo will get to drive away in a brand new Mini Cooper 1.6 that comes complete with air conditioning, electronic windows, remote central locking, alloy wheels and a CD player and radio. That isn’t all however, as Wink Bingo are throwing in 12 months road tax and a 5yr Mini TCL service package. This game has always been a huge success and this is the 4th year that the winner will win a great car.
This years winner will follow in the footsteps of ‘delilah17′ 2009′s winner, ‘kasiek’ in 2010 and last years winner ‘deborah12′. The maximum tickets each player can purchase for the game is 48, allowing all players to have a fair chance of winning.
To set the scene, a New Year’s Eve Chat party will be held by Wink Bingo called the ‘Frisky Final Countdown’ and this will start on December 31st at 8pm. Double joy points will be given away as well as cash, bonus funds and vouchers for La Senza. To win these players will have to play online bingo and win with either a ‘bell’ pattern, call house on number 11 or 12, or play the instant game called ‘Cupid’s Arrow’.
 The Great Glass House at the National Botanical Gardens offer It doesn’t matter how gloomy the weather is in January, you can take a trip to the The Great Glass House at the National Botanical Gardens inWalesfor a true Mediterranean experience, and to make it even better its absolutely free to get in for the whole month.
A series of events that each last for a weekend are planned throughout the month with the intention of encouraging visitors to come to the Garden, which was described by The Times as the UK’s No. 1 winter wonderland. Highlights amongst these events include a woodcraft weekend, an antiques fair and food fair highlighting local produce. All will be held in the Great Glasshouse owned by Lord Foster.
The antiques fair, organised by Derwen Fairs, is to take place on the weekend 14-15 January, and has been billed as a 2 day extravaganza of top quality antiques stalls that will sell jewellery, furniture and china. The wood-craft weekend is on 21-22 January and will interest anyone who loves wood as there will be demonstrations of toy making, wood-turning and carving amongst others by master craftsman such as Mark Raby.
In addition, there will be a number of trade stands, including Robert Sorby, Trend, Ashley Iles, Timberman, Turners Retreat and many more.
On the last weekend of FREE January (Saturday and Sunday, January 28-29), there will be a festival of local food and drink with more than 30 stalls offering the best that the west has to offer in terms of local produce.
Head of Marketing and Communications David Hardy said: “Our ‘FREE January’ was such a big hit with visitors last year we are hoping – with some additional events – we will be able to tempt even more folk along to the Garden.”
Also on at the Garden in FREE January are the next two performances in the Celtic Women Concert Series which feature singer, pianist, and entertainer Amanda Painting (Sunday January 8 at 2pm) and harpist, songwriter, poet and storyteller Hazel Saville on Sunday January 15.
For a full list of what’s on at the Garden, go to www.gardenofwales.org.uk
 The Co-Operative Insurance and The Sentinel have teamed up to stand offer readers a chance to get some great trendy football gear from Stoke City. The Co-Op is a sister company of Britannia which is the sponsor of the football team which has made the merger possible.
As a result, fans can enter to receive a free Co-Op insurance junior football package every day up until Christmas Eve. The kit comes with 15 navy blue shirts that have the Co-Op logo on them; white socks, a goalkeeper’s kit, navy blue shorts, and is from the leading sportswear Italian company Errea.
Any junior football team or primary school team would make good use out of the shirts that are already pre-numbered and sized to fit ages eight through 11 with a chest size of extra small.
In order to get your chance at winning the kit all you have to do is answer one question, “Who is the manager of Stoke City?” The possible answers are Peter Coates, John Rudge, or Tony Pulis. Simply answer the question and then include age, name, phone number and address in an email addressed to sports.editor@thesentinel.co.uk.
Those without access to email can also mail their answer in the post addressed to Sports Editor, The Sentinel, Sentinel House, Forge Lane, Stoke-on-Trent ST1, 5SS. Every day one entry will be picked randomly from the received entries to win a kit.
This week there are still a few more chances to win a junior kit so make sure to send off a quick email for your shot at winning. There is no purchase necessary for entry, but any entries that are incomplete will be tossed out so make sure that you put all of your details into the email or postcard before mailing. The last date for all entries is December 24th.
 RIM the Canadian phone manufacturer has announced that all new BlackBerry users will now be able to receive six months of free access to their BlackBerry Music service which will save them approximately £30 in total by the end of the free period. The company also announced that anybody on a BlackBerry that chooses to download the BBC Music app prior to the fourth of January will get half a year of free music with free usage for six months. Those who already have the app will get four months free at a savings of £4.99 every month which is the standard price.
The BBM Music service was first introduced in beta form back in August and aimed at giving Blackberry users a way to download and share their music tracks with other users. The service was first brought to the UK in the middle of last month as part of the BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 offering.
The service allows users to download up to fifty songs every month and then they can update their collection by swapping 25 of them for new tracks on a monthly basis. The tracks can then be shared with others who use the service creating a cloud catalogue of tracks available from EMI, Universal, Sony, and Warner Music.
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