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E: 29/05 Win Tea @ The Ritz with Alexander McCall Smith

The Redbush Tea Company have teamed up with Waterstone's to offer one lucky winner and a guest the chance to have tea at The Ritz with Mma Ramotswe's creator, Alexander McCall Smith. This fantastic prize includes some travel expenses and an overnight stay in a London hotel, as well as a signed copy of the latest book in the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series - Tea Time for the Traditionally Built.

The Ritz

Good Luck :j

T&C's
1. No purchase necessary. Please enter your name, e-mail address and contact number in the spaces provided. Only one entry per person allowed. Proof of entering is not proof of receipt of entry.
2. To be eligible, entries must be received on or before the closing date of 29th May 2009 at 11:59 PM. All entries shall become the property of Waterstones.com, and their directors, officers, representatives, advertising and promotional agencies are not responsible for contacting or forwarding prizes to entrants who provide unclear or incomplete information or for entries lost, misdirected, delayed or destroyed.
3. Entrants must be residents of the UK or Ireland and aged 18 years or over.
4. There will be one prize winner, who will win tea for two at The Ritz in London where the winner and a guest will be hosted by the award-winning Alexander McCall Smith. They will also win a signed copy of Teatime for the traditionally built, one night's accomodation for two sharing at a London hotel and £200 towards the cost of travel. Twenty runners up will win a 125g tin of Redbush Tea.
5. The promoter reserves the right to amend the specification of the prize or offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value.
6. Subject to availability.
7. No cash alternative will be offered. The prize is non-transferable.
8. A random draw will take place on the morning of 15th June 2009 to select the winner. The prize winner will be notified by registered post by June 22nd 2009.
9. This competition is not open to employees of Waterstone's, HMV Group, Little, Brown, Rebush Tea or their immediate families.
10. By entering the contest, entrants, consent to the use of their names, city of residence, photograph and/or image for publicity purposes in all media carried out by Waterstone's, without payment or compensation.
11. The decisions of the contest judges are final. The prize must be accepted as awarded.
12. The right is reserved to terminate or withdraw this contest at any time.
13. a) All entries become the property of Waterstone's, who assume no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged or misdirected entries or for any failure of the web site during the promotional period, for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by Waterstone's on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or any web site, or any combination thereof including any injury or damage to an entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from playing or downloading any material in the promotion. Waterstone's reserve the right, in its sole discretion to cancel or suspend the e-mail portion of this contest should a virus or bug or other cause beyond the reasonable control of Waterstone's corrupt the security or proper administration of the contest. Any attempt to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of this promotion is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, Waterstone's reserve the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law, including criminal prosecution. Entries are subject to verification and will be declared invalid if they are illegible, mechanically MV reproduced, mutilated, forged, falsified, altered or tampered with in any way. Entrants agree to abide by the Contest Rules and the decisions of the independent judging panel, which are final.
13. b) Entries must be submitted by the named entrant (or their parent/Guardian for children aged 15 or under) and will be invalid if found to come from a third party. Multiple entries from a single source (eg 'competition entry' website/company) will be disqualified.
14. For name/county of prize winner, please send a stamped addressed envelope marked Waterstone's Teatime Competition Winner to Waterstones.com, Capital Court, Capital Interchange way, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8 0EX after 1st july 2009. No entries should be sent to this address.
15. Entry to the competition is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions. By clicking on the Submit button above you are deemed to have read and accepted these terms.
16. The email address and phone number you provide to enter the competition will be used by us to contact you if necessary, and will not be shared with other companies. Waterstone's will only use your email address in compliance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and in accordance with our privacy policy.
17. Little, Brown Books has organised this prize draw in good faith and does not accept liability relating to the prize.
Promoters: Waterstone's Redbush Tea and Little, Brown Books.

Comments

  • kateab
    kateab Posts: 2,824 Forumite
    Ahem. HE is called Alexander. Not Alexandra! :D

    kateab
    Definitely NOT the blogger at Katie and the Kids, OK?
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