Scarf design goes West

Never shy of expressing himself through the clothes he wears as well as the music he sings, outspoken rapper Kanye West, 33, is set to launch his own line of neck wear. The scarf collection which is set to be released on Monday is a collaborative venture with French design partnership M/M (Paris). The five [...]

Family weekly budgets squeezed

The average spending power of families in the UK has decreased by £10 per week compared to the same month last year according to supermarket Asda’s income tracker. Although this sounds like depressing news, this marks an improvement on the falling spending power of household budgets over the past 14 months. According to the figures [...]

Alcohol causes 13,000 cancer cases per annum, report finds

Alcohol has always been associated with a number of negative health issues, but it has recently been conclusively linked to another. A study, co-funded by Cancer Research UK, discovered that it causes around 13,000 cases of cancer a year in Britain. The European study was published in the British Medical Journal and backs past research [...]

Diabetes: Artificial pancreas ‘can prevent hypoglycaemia’

A new study has shown that an artificial pancreas can help prevent hypoglycaemia happening when glucose levels fall too low for people facing type 1 diabetes. Researchers at the University of Cambridge were funded by Diabetes UK to monitor how well artificial pancreases worked for a men and women between the ages of 18 and [...]

INTERIORS: Aim for summer goodness with new redecorating scheme

Style is not just limited to colours when it comes to a summer; you must consider the ambience, smells, warmth and associated emotions if you are going to reflect the happiness of the season to pervade the home through a well thought-out interior design. Luckily, it may not cost that much money to pull off. [...]

Creating a garden themed bedroom

If your little one is an outdoors sort who struggles over winter when they are trapped indoors, why not bring a little of the outside inside for them to enjoy? Creating a garden themed bedroom is cheap and easy and will give them a fun and attractive space to play in all year round. A [...]

A guide to selling your home

Selling a home can be a drawn-out and stressful experience, but here is a simple guide to the selling process to ensure that yours runs as smoothly as possible: Choose your estate agent or property buyer An estate agent will work on your behalf to secure the sale of your home. They work on commission, [...]

Guide to using a property buyer

If you choose to sell your home, property buyers offer a good alternative to the common estate agent route. Buyers can guarantee a swift, hassle-free sale and are particularly useful in the event of: • a death or divorce • property inheritance • needing to generate cash to prevent repossession • struggling to repay your [...]

TRAVEL: Britons to be thriftier on holiday with ‘Tupperware tourism’

Holidaymakers will be looking to overcome the recession by cutting back on spending during the summer, as a new study has discovered that many will turn into so-called “Tupperware tourists”. The new poll from Experian discovered that one-quarter of Middle British households will take packed lunches on holiday trips instead of visiting restaurants or buying [...]

TRAVEL: Easter Island – the hidden gem of the Pacific

Easter Island is like no other in the Pacific Ocean. The Polynesian island, off the coast of Chile and found at the south-eastern most point of the Polynesian triangle, has been a special territory of Chile since 1888 and is most famous for its 887 monumental statues known as moai. These were created by early [...]