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Mark my words, this new £230 Habitat chair bed is going to be an instant bestseller – it's cute, curvy, and tailor-made for small homes

As Ideal Home's Sleep Editor, I've spent the last five years testing some of the best chair beds on the market, and, if you're looking for a space-saving overnight hosting solution, this affordable design is definitely…

This is the £29 Dunelm kitchen set that uni students (and their parents) are rushing to snap up – I wish I'd had one when I left for halls

Dunelm has made that process a little easier with the introduction of its new £29 Kitchen Starter Pack, designed to take the stress of out of the big move. Kitted out with everything a student needs to make a start with…

5 heat-loving houseplants that thrive in bright, sunny windowills and stuffy rooms – they’re perfect for south-facing windowsills

Your indoor plants may be suffering, too. And if this is the case in your household, don’t worry, as plant experts have revealed five heat-proof houseplants that will happily flourish in a hot south-facing window. In my…

Better off together: could combining pension pots boost your retirement income?

But a combination of people changing jobs more often and rules that force employers to enrol workers into schemes automatically, means you are likely to end up with more. The number of people saving into a private sector…

Calls to ban disposable barbecues in England and Wales over wildfire risk

The call, which has also been made by firefighters and is backed by the Liberal Democrats and many Labour MPs, comes as much of England faces further hot dry weather, despite rain in some areas. The deputy president of…

Metro Bank customer fights for £14,000 refund after AI-linked fraud

The scam involved fraudsters buying credits to use Claude. When Metro Bank messaged Rutter to ask whether an attempted transaction was legitimate, he replied "no", but the criminals were able to make a series of…

Secondhand EV leasing hits the fast lane as more UK drivers explore ways to cut motoring costs

Used electric car leasing has risen by 170% in the last year across members of the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA), a lobby group whose members buy about half the UK's new vehicles to lease them…

The most-viewed homes of 2026 so far

And it’s not just the mega-mansions catching people’s eye either, although we’ve got plenty of those too. From a £250,000 cliff-top cottage built for a famous novelist to a £20 million Gothic mansion, this year’s…

I was fined £500 after putting a coffee cup in a rubbish bag next to a full bin

The only bin I could see was completely full, but there was a plastic bag containing rubbish at the base. I put my cup in that bag and was stopped by an enforcement officer, who had been standing at a distance watching…

‘You owe parking fees’: experts warn of fake RingGo text scam

Sometimes there is a lack of reliable mobile signal, or the app crashes or behaves oddly, or it does not seem to want to accept your bank card. Also, it is sometimes hard to keep track of which apps you have used when.…