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The Mirror is offering its readers the chance to win a seven-night, all inclusive holiday to Crete as part of a premium rate phone competition.

It has teamed up with Olympic Holidays to offer the trip, which celebrates the release of Driving Aphrodite on DVD.

The winner will get return flights from Gatwick or Manchester, accommodation at the four-star Mediterraneo Hotel in Hersonissos, hotel transfers and travel insurance, as well as a copy of the movie on DVD.

People can enter by sending the correct answer to a question by calling an 090 number, sending a premium rate SMS message or via the web.

Lines close at 18:00 GMT on February 18th and calls from BT landlines cost 50p per minute, while text and internet entries cost £1 plus the standard network rate.

Meanwhile, football fans could get the chance to give the England lads a team talk before they fly out to South Africa in an SMS competition.

The Mirror is offering people the chance to win a trip to Barcelona through a premium rate phone competition.

Up for grabs is a £2,000, week-long holiday in the Spanish city for a family of four, with the newspaper teaming up with nutella to run the competition.

People can enter online, by sending a premium rate SMS message or calling an 090 number, with lines closing at 18:00 GMT on February 17th.

Calls cost 50p per minute from a BT landline, while internet and premium rate SMS entries are both charged at £1, plus the standard network rate for text messages.

They will have to correctly answer a question to be in with a chance of winning the holiday.

Meanwhile, The Sun has launched a competition in which readers can win World Cup tickets for each of England's group games.

People need to send answers to a question via email or SMS each day to be in with a chance of getting their hands on this great prize.

Carol Smillie is to present a ballroom dancing competition in Scotland where the public can send SMS messages to vote for their favourites and raise money for charity.

The TV presenter, who appeared on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, is to host the show, which sees celebrities teaming up with former Scottish ballroom dancing champions, the Daily Record reported.

They will dance in a spectacular event called A Little Less Strictly Come Dancing on March 20th at Glasgow's Hilton Hotel to raise money for the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice.

People can vote for who they want to win from 00:00 GMT tonight (February 11th) by sending a premium rate SMS messages, according to the newspaper.

Voting closes at 19:00 GMT on March 20th and each SMS cost £1 plus the standard network charge, with 95p of this being donated to the hospice.

This weekend, the final of So You Think You Can Dance will take place, with the winner being chosen by a premium rate phone vote.

SMS and the web are the most common mobile banking technologies at the moment, according to research.

A survey conducted by Luth Research and commissioned by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) found that 17 per cent of all US adults currently bank via their handsets.

The good news for those involved in mobile marketing is that this figure is set to increase to 22 per cent within the next year.

According to the survey, 11 per cent of respondents use a mobile web browser for banking, while eight per cent use SMS and 5.5 per cent access their banking information through apps.

"This study shows that mobile banking is a major opportunity both today and over the long term, with applications rapidly emerging as one of the most popular ways that US adults bank on the go," said Peter Johnson, vice-president of market intelligence at the MMA.

Meanwhile, research from Global System for Mobile communications Association and comScore has shown that 16 million people in the UK accessed the internet from their phones in December.

Sixteen million people accessed the internet from their phones in December 2009, according to research which suggests another boost for mobile marketing.

The figures from the Global System for Mobile communications Association and comScore show that people viewed a combined total of 6.7 million pages during the month.

Users also spent a total of 4.8 billion minutes surfing the web via their phone in December, which those engaging in mobile marketing may want to take note of.

"Mobile internet became mainstream largely because people wanted to access their social networks on the go and also needed to search for info such as addresses while out. These results reflect that," commented Natasha Stokes, editor of Mobile Choice.

Currently, consumers are looking for information such as product reviews and prices, addresses and maps, and sports news when it comes to mobile internet, she added.

Ms Stokes said that this would expand as mobile internet becomes more accessible and faster.

The Sun has launched a competition fronted by Ian Wright where readers can win World Cup tickets by sending an SMS message.

Over the six weeks starting from February 22nd, a question will be emailed or sent via SMS to each person signed up to the newspaper's campaign website WrightysXI.com.

The registered participants will receive a question each day which they can find the answers to only in the sports section of The Sun.

Readers must send an SMS or email with their answers to the newspaper with two winners being chosen every week from the correct replies.

Each of the winners will get two tickets to every England group game, plus a 16-night stay in Cape Town.

The advertising drive surrounding the campaign has been developed by Glue for the newspaper.

Meanwhile, Specsavers and News Shopper have teamed up to offer people the chance to win six pairs of designer glasses in a premium rate SMS competition.

People can win pairs of designer glasses in a premium rate SMS competition being run by Specsavers and News Shopper.

Stores in West Wickham, Lewisham and Catford are giving away six pairs of designer frames, worth up to £125 each, to three lucky couples.

The winners will be able to choose glasses from a range of brands, including Quicksilver, Roxy, Red or Dead and Jasper Conran.

To enter, people need to send the correct answer to a question by post or premium rate SMS.

The closing date for entries is February 19th, with text lines closing at 23:59 GMT on that day.

It costs 50p plus the standard network charge for a text to send a premium rate SMS and enter the competition.

Meanwhile, The Sun has launched a new competition offering tickets to this summer's World Cup, which involves sending an SMS or email with answers to a question that can be found in the newspaper.

A young woman from the West Country is hoping to gain enough SMS votes to progress to the semi-finals of a national beauty contest.

Tania Prentice, 22, needs to get more SMS votes than the other 20 beauty queens from across the country in her heat, thisisthewestcountry.co.uk reports.

If she gets the most support, she will get to the semi-finals of the Miss Fresh Photographic competition in June.

"I was spotted at the Clothes Show Live event," she told the news provider.

"It's exciting to be a part of the competition and I am nervous at the same time," she added.

People need to send their SMS votes by 17:00 GMT on February 28th.

Meanwhile, a teenager from the West Midlands is hoping to gain enough SMS votes to send her through to the final of a beauty contest, the Stourbridge News has reported.

She is already through to the finals of the February heats of the competition.

A teenager from the West Midlands is hoping to gain enough premium rate SMS votes to send her through to the final of a beauty contest.

Peyton Cunningham, aged 14, is through to the finals of the February heats in the national competition to find a teen princess, the Stourbridge News reports.

The teenager, from Kingswinford, is calling on people to send their SMS votes in so that she can make the final in August.

Prizes include a makeover, an introduction to a modelling agency and a week-long trip to Africa, according to the newspaper.

"I am quite shocked, I didn't expect to get this far, the competition started off with 9,000 contestants," Peyton said.

People can vote for the youngster by sending an SMS message before 23:30 GMT on February 14th.

Meanwhile, Heather Mills failed to make it through to the sixth week of Dancing On Ice after the public premium rate phone vote landed her in the skate-off.

People can win a holiday to St Lucia and £2,000 in a premium rate phone competition being run by GMTV this week.

Entrants will have the chance to win the holiday of a lifetime with a seven-night stay in an exclusive Butler Suite at the Sandals Regency La Toc Golf and Spa Resort.

The complex is set along a half-mile, crescent-shaped beach and features one of the largest freshwater pools in the eastern Caribbean, as well as seven restaurants, a nine-hole golf course and an award-winning spa.

GMTV is running the premium rate phone competition from February 8th to 12th, with telephone lines closing at 12:00 GMT on the final day.

People can enter by calling an 090 number, sending a premium rate SMS at a cost of £1 plus one standard network rate message or online.

The Mirror is currently offering its readers the chance to win £4,000 worth of stylish furniture through a premium rate phone competition.

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