E: 11/09 2pm - Win a luxury stay and afternoon tea at a stately home! (On air)

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To celebrate the cinema release of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Greatest Hits Radio is giving you the chance to live life like a Crawley.

Here's how it could be YOU!

For one special week, to honour Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Golden years will pay home to the golden age

Every day during his much-loved mid-morning show, Ken Bruce invites listeners to pause and reflect on life’s meaningful moments with his feature The Golden Years.

Your chance to win!

To celebrate the cinema release of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, here’s your chance to win a luxury stay and Afternoon tea at a stately home!

This competition will run from 00:01 on Friday 5th September until 14:00 on Thursday 11th September 2025.

To win, tell us about three songs from an individual year that mark a big vintage moment in your life. Whether it’s graduations, meeting that special someone, fond farewells, or the trip to end all trips. To celebrate the final chapter of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale coming to the big screen, we want you to take us back to your Golden Year and hear the soundtrack to it.

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS for “Greatest Hits Radio x Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale”

 (the on-air “Competition”).

 

These terms and conditions (the “Specific Terms”) for the Competition should be read alongside our general competition terms and conditions at: http://www.bauerlegal.co.uk/radio-competition-terms.html (the “General Terms”) which will also apply to this Competition. Where there is any conflict between these Specific Terms and the General Terms, the Specific Terms shall prevail.

 

 

1.ENTRY ROUTES AND COSTS

 

This is a shared prize running across the Greatest Hits Radio Network of stations across the UK.  

 

Entries are restricted to one (1) entry per person.

 

Entry to the Competition is available via the following routes:

 

Online at https://planetradio.co.uk/greatest-hits/competitions/

 

Online entry is free of charge.

 

2.COMPETITION MECHANIC AND HOW TO WIN

 

There will be five (5) winners of the Competition, one (1) per day, during the competition period (see 3. Entry period).

 

The winners will be selected from all those that fill in the required details and answer the question on the creative page (detailed in 1. Entry Routes & Costs), “Tell us about three songs from an individual year that mark a big vintage moment in your life. Whether it’s graduations, meeting that special someone, fond farewells, or the trip to end all trips. To celebrate the final chapter of Downton Abbey coming to the big screen, we want you to take us back to your Golden Year and hear the soundtrack to it.” To ensure music selected is suitable to be played on GHR, anything put forward should be from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and be suitable for daytime broadcasting.

Shortlisting process:

All the entries received will be pooled together and shortlisted each day from Monday 8th September 2025 through to Thursday 11thSeptember 2025. The same pool of entries will be used throughout the Competition Period, meaning that an Entrant’s chances of winning may decrease throughout the Competition Period, as entry numbers increase.

The shortlisting of entrants will take place for each show on the following dates, at the following times:

Monday 8th Sept show: Shortlisting will happen at 9 am on Monday 8th Sept.

Tuesday 9th Sept show: Shortlisting will happen at 2 pm on Monday 8th Sept.

Wednesday 10th Sept show: Shortlisting will happen at 2 pm on Tuesday 9th Sept

Thursday 11th Sept show: Shortlisting will happen at 2 pm on Wednesday 10th Sept

Friday 11th Sept show: Shortlisting will happen at 2 pm on Thursday 11th Sept.

Five (5) entries will be shortlisted as finalists to potentially come on-air with Ken Bruce each day during his show (between 10:00am and 13:00pm).

During the daily shortlist process the entrant may be called by the GHR production team to discuss their entry and their availability to take part in that week’s competition.

Judging criteria:

Entrants will be judged on how entertaining and compelling the entry is. All entries will be judged by the GHR production team, the production manager, and an independent judge. 

On air competition:

Each day one (1) of the shortlisted finalists will come on-air and recite their entry and then will win the prize (see section 5 for details). This entrant will be contacted by a member of the GHR production team and will be informed that they will be called back by the GHR studio at a time dictated by the member of the GHR production team. This entrant will then be brought on air to tell the presenter about their entry. If an entrant is not available to come to air during the required times and dates confirmed by the production team, their entry will be voided.

The winners:

The shortlisted finalists who are not deemed the daily winner will not win the prize.

The contestant will only be deemed a winner, upon being selected and told by the presenter and the GHR production team that they are a winner. 

The winner will be announced on air each day during the on-air competition period.

 

The winner’s first name and hometown are also available on request by emailing win@bauermedia.co.uk.

 

 

3. ENTRY PERIOD

 

Entries must be submitted during the following entry period:

 

The competition will run from 00:01 on Friday 5th September - 2:00 pm on Thursday 11th September 2025.

 

Entries received before the Start Time or after the End Time will be invalid.

 

4. ENTRY RESTRICTIONS

·      Open to UK residents aged 18 years or over on date of entry.

 

·      Our employees (and their family members) or employees of any company involved in the Competition, including any Prize Provider, are not permitted to enter.

 

·      We reserve the right to disqualify any entrant or winner who does not comply with any of the eligibility criteria and/or is in breach of these Terms. We reserve the right to repeat the competition mechanic or any stage of it in order to draw a winner that fulfils all of the eligibility criteria and is in compliance with these Terms.

 

·      If you or any other person at your household has won a prize valued at £500 or more on any Bauer brand in the past 6 months, you nor they are not eligible to enter or win this competition. The full list of Bauer Media brands can be found here: https://www.bauermedia.co.uk/brands.

 

·      Shortlisted entrants must be available to come to air at the time and date specified by the GHR production team (see section 2. Competition mechanic and how to win)

 

5. THE PRIZE

 

Each winner will receive the following prize package:

 

Prize package for 2 people includes:

 

·      Total travel allowance of £50

·      1 night’s stay in a Stately Home in the winner’s choice of location in the UK, based on sharing a double occupancy room with breakfast

·      Afternoon tea at local venue

·      Dinner and drinks at a local restaurant, up to the value of £75 per person including gratuity

 

Prize specific Terms and Conditions:

 

·      The prize package is for two (2) people, all of whom must travel at the same time with the same itinerary;

·      At least 1 person travelling must be over the age of 18; where any travellers are aged under 18, they must have prior parental or guardian permission;

·      Travel expenses are included up to the total value of £50 GBP, which can be spent on petrol/parking or travel by public transport;

·      Accommodation is based on two (2) adults sharing one (1) double occupancy room, in winner’s chosen location; Accommodation will be selected by prize provider at their sole discretion;

·      A valid credit or debit card for incidentals may be required to guarantee your room on check in and therefore at least one of the travellers must possess and travel with a valid credit or debit card;

·      The prize excludes any additional travel costs, meals and drinks, hotel incidentals, excursions, attractions, treatments, personal expenses and anything not expressly stated in the prize package;

·      If unavailable, experiences and items of a similar nature and value may be offered at prize provider’s discretion;

·      Afternoon tea is provided at a local venue or restaurant of the prize providers discretion;

·      Winners must contact prize provider with three preferred travel dates in three separate months no later than six weeks prior to departure;

·      Once booked, the prize cannot be amended or cancelled;

·      Prize is non-refundable and non-transferable; no cash alternative is available;

·      Prize cannot be taken over Christmas, New Year (19 December to 4 January) or Public Holidays;

·      Prize is valid for 12 months from the date of notification of winning, and all travel must be completed within that time;

·      All cash allowances listed will be sent via bank transfer to the winner’s nominated account, recipient of funds must be aged 18 years or older;

·      If the winner elects not to, or is unable to, use part of the prize, the winner will forfeit that part of the prize package;

·      The Prize Provider is Element London Ltd. Any personal data submitted by the winner to the Prize Provider will be treated in accordance with Prize Provider’s privacy policy, which is accessible at https://element-london.com/element-london-privacy-policy-travel-english/

 

 

 

OTHER CONDITIONS

 

DATA PROTECTION:

 

Names, email addresses, and /or telephone numbers (which, for all SMS competitions, will be shared with our SMS provider) will be collected and used to process entries. Winner’s details may be given to a Prize Provider to arrange delivery of the prize. Your details may remain stored after the End Date but will not be used for marketing unless you have ticked an opt-in box on entry. For SMS entries you automatically consent to receive marketing. You may opt out at any time by texting the word STOP to the relevant text shortcode number. If you have opted in to receive marketing communications, then your details will be used in accordance with the information given when you ticked the opt-in box and gave your consent. For more details, see: http://www.bauerdatapromise.co.uk/. 

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CONSENTS:

 

By entering this Competition, you are consenting to our use of your entry both to publicise this Competition, our radio station or any other radio station which we own or control. This means that we may use all names, images, descriptions, photographs video footage, and other information, which you have submitted on entry, in any media, without paying you any remuneration therefore and without any time restriction. You also agree that we may film, record or photograph you in connection with the competition and /or the Prize if applicable. We will own these films, recordings or photographs and we may use them publicly, including on the internet, for our radio broadcasts and/or for any promotional purposes. You will also have waived any moral rights or right to payment that you may have had.

 

MISCELLANEOUS:

 

Entries which do not comply with these Terms or the General Competition Terms and Conditions will not be accepted and any entries may be disqualified if we have any reason to suspect that there is a breach of, or non-compliance with, these Terms.

 

Where a competition mechanic involves the answering of questions, the correct answers to questions must match our answers to win (or be sufficiently close in our sole reasonable opinion) to be acceptable. In the event of any dispute about any answers given and whether they are correct, we reserve the right to amend what we deem a correct answer, however we are not obliged to, and our decision in either case is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

We are not responsible if you fail to get through when you call / text to enter, or if you lose signal during a call.

 

You are responsible for all costs of entry and where necessary, obtaining the bill payer’s permission. Please refer to your tariff with your network provider for information about charges you may incur for entry into our competitions via any SMS or phone call entry route.

We accept no liability for network, technical or signal errors, issues or failures experienced by entrants when entering the competition or at any stage during the mechanic of the competition.

Whilst on-air, you must not make any inappropriate, profane, indecent, harmful or offensive statements. If you do so we reserve the right to take you off-air immediately and disqualify you from the competition. You may be also disqualified from the competition at any time if you are incomprehensible, inaudible or if you appear to be driving, intoxicated or likely to offend listeners. Any prize already won may be withdrawn and re-awarded to another entrant.

As far as it is lawful to do so we exclude our liability for any losses suffered in connection with the Competition or any element of the Prize.

 

We may cancel, end or suspend the Competition where we are required to do so in circumstances outside our control. We reserve the right to amend these Terms at any stage during the Competition if such amendment is necessary to facilitate the administration of the Competition.

 

CONTACT DETAILS.

 

Any concerns? Please email: win@bauermedia.co.uk. Correspondence will not be entered into regarding any competition which has closed more than 14 days prior to correspondence being received.

 

Bauer Radio Limited is the promoter of this Competition, see: http://www.bauerlegal.co.uk/radio-website-terms.html for details of our registered office and company number.