The regional hunts have been won!

Here’s how it worked out…

Time	Area A Clues		Area B Clues			Area C Clues
Monday noon	It begins…In all regions seek a magic token. A well-known one was created by itself with the help of 51 ancients evenly placed.
	OK, all clues were associated with some form of ‘token’. Taking the word TOKEN and evenly spacing the ‘ancient Roman numerals for 51 (LI) within it, gives TOLKIEN. The famous ‘token’ associated with Tolkien is of course the RING, so a ring was appropriate somehow, but it didn’t mean the same thing in all cases!
	A ‘ring’ of columns at the final location.			A gold plated ring was attached to the casket.			A telephone box, as in a ‘ring’ on the ‘phone.
Tuesday noon	All regions must seek Exact,Rapid info!Not in the Sun, but in the sun. What a low point!
	Exact and Rapid mean the same as Express, so The Express newspaper was required. (‘Not in the Sun’ confirms that a newspaper is needed.)There was an image of a sun with some words in it. The lowest word was ‘WATER’, confirmed by the homophone ‘what a’.
	The treasure was hidden at a fountain.			The place name has a reference to water AshWELL, and the final location is at the WELL.			The name of the place contained the water – BECKington, on the BATH road.
Wednesday noon	In all regions, you're close if you're at a place with a geographical feature in it!
	As a lot of people correctly surmised, the geographical feature actually formed part of the place name (otherwise the clue would have been too vague and useless!) I used a bit of licence with what could be described as a ‘geographical feature’.
	BoroughBRIDGE			AshWELL			BECKington
Thursday am							ET
							As someone pointed out, ‘ET phone home’ – telephone!
Thursday noon	In Times u will find that she holds on to her faith. Take the fifth bold one below.			SomeTimes u need to enjoy a Golden moment.It is the end of the (first)line but u do not need the apostrophe!			Relax, put your feet up and I’ll send you a BIG clue this evening!
	TheTimes newspaper was required
	A lady holding a carrier bag, in the bold caption below, the 5^th word was ST (as in Saint). The treasure was hidden at St James Well in St James Square			A headline describes a ‘Golden Moment’. The word at the end of the first line was Stone’s. The well is constructed of, and lined with stones.			No clue, but it was meant to put you in mind of watching television.
Thursday evening							Quick, put the telly on! You could see something to your advantage!
							The clue was sent out at 7pm. ‘Emmerdale’ was just beginning. The focus of life in Emmerdale is The Woolpack. The treasure was found behind the public telephone kiosk (a listed building!) next to the Woolpack pub in Beckington, Somerset. It comes up in 6^th place on a Google search for ‘Woolpack’!
Friday	No clues
Monday noon	Regions A and B:U need to be a Morse Inspector! Study a light foot print and find the word below stu-
	Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, so you needed to ‘inspect’ the Daily Telegraph. An article about graduates was written by a lady called Lightfoot. The word ‘students’ was hyphenated, the word below it was STEP.
	The casket was hidden on a step.			The casket was hidden on a step!
Tuesday noon	*!Take the middle word below the shiny crown, and drop the apostrophe.			*!Silk tops, white spots, within TOPS!
	The asterisk hints to use the Daily STAR
	The shiny crown was the photo of a football trophy. The middle word below it was Roman’s. The Romans had a settlement at Aldborough, which is amalgamated with Boroughbridge.			Racing jockeys wear ‘silks’. In the racing pages, all of the ‘silk’ tops of the riders are shown. The only one with white spots was for the horse Top Trees, which has the word TREE within ‘tops’. The ash in Ashwell is the tree referred to.
Wednesday noon	500,1000:Head West from the middle circle where Napoleon kept his armies(Ha ha!)Look for his adversary’s supporters!			500,1000:Trenchant, Albion, Saipan, Fort Victoria
	500 and 1000 are the Roman Numerals for DM, Daily Mail
	Old joke (ha ha!) Where did Napoleon/Caesar keep his armies?Up his sleevies! In a picture of Napoleon, there are three circular buttons on his sleeves. Looking to the West (left) you find the word COLUMNS, which of course do support Napoleon’s adversary, Nelson! The fountain at Boroughbridge is surrounded by columns.			These were the names of ships gathered for the naval review that celebrated the Trafalgar 2005. They were numbered in a photograph. Equating the numbers to letters spelt out FORK. The well is adjacent to a fork in the road. Additionally, a small forked branch pointed exactly to the location of the ring that was attached to the casket.
Thursday noon	Clock these! 17:56, 18:23, 11:37, 23:37, 12:16 Shall we dance?			B: The X!Someone between a crawler and a runner points right to the big dark heart of the matter.
	‘Clock these’ and ‘X’ were supposed to make you think of The Times (do you remember when you used to do your ‘times table’?)
	A tricky one! All of these numbers occur in a single column of short news stories, in sequence from top to bottom. It just happened that they look like times when put together. The only one that doesn’t fit with the pattern is 16, the last one. This indicated that you were to count 16 past the last number, to the word TAP. A sort of dance! There is a very prominent tap on the fountain.			Between a ‘crawler’ and a ‘runner’ is a ‘walker’. In a photograph of a lady called Walker, she was pointing her right hand to a word in large, bold font -CENTRE (the ‘heart’ of the matter). The casket was right at the very centre of the front of the well.
Friday noon	MPH Band:One holds the Other On Under Rodin’s ‘The ?’- not so gentle!			MPH Band:Bilbo looks out over the word split in two – a little bit more than a perfume!
	MPH refers to Make Poverty History, the ‘band’ refers to the MPH wrist band that is wrapped around the world, filling the whole front page of the Daily Mirror.
	There is an article about kissing, with pictures of couples embracing. The capitalised words all begin numbered points in the article. Equating the numbers to letters spells out ROUGH, which is certainly not so gentle! The word appears in the place name BoROUGHbridge (and AldboROUGH!)			The actor Ian Holm, who plays Bilbo Baggins (back to Lord of The Rings!) appears in a photograph over the word CHANNEL that was hyphenated (in some editions of the paper!) This is a ‘little bit more than’ Chanel. A channel is the same as a RUT. The well is in RUTland. I wanted to find the word ploughed for this but I couldn’t find it in the paper when I needed it!
Friday midnight	(Mirror) Part of the place name could be described by the linked-up words floating over the International Space Station.			Get hold of the Mirror and strive to find the name of the resting place within, with in within. Ignore the centre circle and go for the Northern one!
	On the front page, the words ‘link-up’ appear over the words ‘International Space Station’. A BRIDGE (BoroughBRIDGE) is a ‘link-up’.			‘Get hold’ implied that someone might be holding on to something. ‘Strive’ is another word for ‘try’, which refers to rugby. Ignoring the centre circle also refers to rugby rather than football. A headline on a rugby story includes the words ‘Clash in Wellington’, which of course has the letters ASHinWELL within it (i.e. ASHWELL with in within!) There are two Ashwells within Region B, the one at the VERY centre of the circle on the TXT4T map (which I was willing you to go to, but to my knowledge no-one did!!) and the one further North, where the treasure was hidden.
Saturday 4am Region A Clues:	?,rough,geographical feature(link-up): romans,saint,ring,columns,water,tap,step(second) This was simply confirming the clues you should have got so far, in the order that they should be applied: ? – Something is missing (BO) ROUGH Geographical feature (link-up) - BRIDGE ROMAN connection ST James’ Well/Square RING of COLUMNS WATER fountain TAP in front STEP (you needed the second one up)
Saturday 4am Region B Clues:	Tree,water(geographical feature)(channel-land!): fork(road),water,stones,step,centre,ring Tree – ASH Water (geographical feature) – WELL Fork in the road Water (well) Stones (well) STEP, in the CENTRE was the RING!
Saturday 8am Region B Clue	Stuck in a ? and don't know where to head to? Well, get your thinking cap on! Obviously, stuck in a RUT(land), which is where you should go! HEAD, WELL and CAP refer to the well, of course!
St James’ Well Boroughbridge Claimed by Martin Dennett		The ‘wishing’ well at Ashwell, Rutland Claimed by Deborah Hatton			The telephone box at the Woolpack pub, Beckington Claimed by Phil Evans
The three regional winners will receive details of the ‘best of the best’ treasure hunt in due course. More details will also appear here.
General This list is by no means comprehensive, there were several other twists and turns! At times when you thought I was trying to mislead you, I almost certainly was! With hindsight, I could have made it easier for you to be sure you had the right newspaper. If the hunts seemed slightly random this time round, that was deliberate – with pure logic the same people end up following the same thought patterns and winning the hunts. However, it seems that my tactics did not work well as at least some of the usual suspects claimed the prizes! Oh, and by the way, the word ‘RING’ also appears in ‘red herRING’. If anyone found anything interesting along the way, do let me know…