1.   Once the hammer has fallen, the successful bidder for a house must exchange contracts immediately and pay a deposit.

2.   Organisers said that the successful bidder would lunch with the governor who had offered the prize.

3.   The scheme will be extended from Task Force areas to include successful City Challenge bidders.

4.   The successful bidder is under a binding contract to purchase the relevant property.

5.   Eildon Housing Association, which manages the houses for Scottish Homes will face opposition from Waverley Housing, the successful bidders in Roxburgh and Ettrick and Lauderdale.

6.   Railtrack will own the infrastructure but the successful bidder for the franchise will run the trains.

7.   An unidentified Texan was the successful bidder at an auction of the only known portrait of Alamo and American frontier hero James Bowie.

8.   Bantam was the successful bidder, but was too small to deliver the quantity the Army needed.