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Daily Mirror
28-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Mirror
Teacher bags Greek getaway for just £20.70 using easy travel hack
Jerry Lucas, a primary school teacher from Nottingham, successfully 'Bid for a Break' with Jet2holidays, meaning she will jet off to Ajul Luxury Hotel & Spa Resort in Halkidiki, Greece, for £20.70 A teacher is jetting off on holiday for the price of a chippy tea for two with Jet2holidays. Jerry Lucas, a primary school teacher from Nottingham, successfully 'Bid for a Break' with Jet2holidays to secure a seven-night all-inclusive holiday to Greece for just £20.70. She bagged the holiday following the return of the UK's largest tour operator's popular campaign. Bid for a Break gives holidaymakers the chance to pay as little as just a few pence for a new getaway every other month until March 2026. Following the relaunch in May, five more holidays are being given away in July, September, November, January and March. After Jerry placed her bid of £20.70, she was told she had entered the lowest unique bid and purchased the seven-night all-inclusive Jet2holiday for two adults and two children to the Ajul Luxury Hotel & Spa Resort in Halkidiki, Greece, for that same price. Jerry said: 'I never expected to win and am already getting excited to take my husband away to celebrate a special birthday! I've always thought my winning bid was a lucky amount. Each time I've entered in the past, I've bid the same amount, so I'm over the moon to have finally won and to be jetting off to Greece.' All holidaymakers need to do to enter is download the Jet2 mobile app, submit their bid to the nearest pence and cross their fingers. If their amount is the lowest and no one else has bid that exact same amount, they will purchase the holiday for that same price. Bidding for the next holiday will open at 10am on 14 July, giving holidaymakers plenty of opportunity to place their bids until 10am on 21 July. Steve Heapy, CEO of and Jet2holidays, said: 'Since its launch, our Bid for a Break campaign has been phenomenally popular with holidaymakers, so we are delighted to see it make its highly anticipated comeback. We're always looking at ways to give our customers more, so that is why we have brought back everyone's favourite – Bid for Break. "We would like to congratulate Jerry on her successful bid to secure a family holiday to Halkidiki for just £20.70. With a new getaway available to bid on every other month until March 2026, holidaymakers have plenty of opportunity to pay just a few pennies for their next getaway.'
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
With NCAA March Madness brackets out, I need to tell the SEC about the Midwest
Now that the NCAA men's basketball tournament bracket is revealed, there are the usual arguments over seeds and which conference is the best. With this, I don't care about opinions. I care about facts. Have any players ever won a high school state championship, a college championship, an NBA title and an Olympic gold medal? Is that heroic feat even possible? Only three men have accomplished this. Guess what? They are not from Indiana, Kentucky or North Carolina, the three states that seem to historically brag that they have the strongest basketball heritage and legacies. It pains me as a Wolverine and Wildcat to put a Buckeye, Hoosier and Spartan on this pedestal, but they so earned and deserve it. Jerry Lucas: Middletown, Ohio, High School (1956 and 1957), Ohio State University (1960), New York Knicks (1973), Olympic gold (1960) Quinn Buckner: Thornridge, Illinois, High School (1971 and 1972), Indiana University (1976), Boston Celtics (1984), Olympic gold (1976) Earvin "Magic" Johnson: Lansing Everett, Michigan, High School (1977), Michigan State University (1979), Los Angeles Lakers (1980), Olympic gold (1992) What do they have in common? They were boys of the midwest. They played for Big 10 universities. Draw a triangle from Dayton to Chicago to Lansing, 200 to 300 miles on each side. This is the holy ground of basketball. Drop the mic! The SEC and the rest of the country have no response. Ann-Nora Hirami Plymouth Submit a letter to the editor at and we may publish it online and in print. If you have a differing view from a letter writer, please feel free to submit a letter of your own in response. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: With March Madness coming, I believe Midwest is best | Letters
