The most expensive street in the country has been revealed as Avenue Road in London, where the average house price is £30.5million. Avenue Road is in the affluent area of St John’s Wood in north west London, and it is lined with multi-million pound mansions. The road is a main corridor into central London, leading … Read more
The design has a red lid and a narrow neck which widens to form a base of sturdy hips. When poured, the contents flow in a singular, uninterrupted stream. The Kikkoman bottle hasn’t changed since it was designed in 1961 by Kenji Ekuan for the world’s largest soy sauce producer. Simplicity has made it ubiquitous. … Read more
The difference of opinion between Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer is part of the appeal of their show Love It Or List It, but a point on which the duo agree wholeheartedly is that the programme should really be called: ‘Love It Or List It But Whatever Happens Chuck Half The Stuff Out’. ‘It’s got … Read more
NATURE DIARY OF A YOUNG NATURALIST by Dara McAnulty (Little Toller £16, 224pp) DIARY OF A YOUNG NATURALIST by Dara McAnulty (Little Toller £16, 224pp) The season of autumn is life ‘in a state of slow withering and soft lullaby …’ according to prose poet and nature-lover Dara McAnulty, an autistic Northern Irish teenager who … Read more
SCOFF by Pen Vogler (Atlantic £20, 480 pp) ‘Tell me what you eat,’ pronounced 19th-century French gastronome Brillat-Savarin, ‘and I will tell you what you are.’ In Britain, few things better reveal our place in the nation’s complex class structure than our eating habits. When do you eat ‘dinner’? At midday or in the early … Read more
A £10million mansion with its own vineyard that produces 100,000 bottles of wine a year and a former nuclear bunker costing £50,000 feature in the most unusual homes picked by property website Rightmove. All six of the most unique homes for sale on the property website made the list for their standout features. Tim Bannister, … Read more
The idea of renting a property without seeing it first would have seemed nonsensical for many prospective tenants a year ago. Most would have thought that only by seeing it for themselves could they check what they were signing up for and whether their new home fulfilled their wish list. But since the beginning of … Read more
Clarifications & corrections By The Daily Mail Published: 00:00 GMT, 15 December 2020 | Updated: 00:00 GMT, 15 December 2020 An article in Good Health on July 14 suggested that Professor Mohamed Abdel-Fattah had been forced to correct a study he published in 2012 after it was discovered he had accepted an inducement of £100,000 from one of the manufacturers of … Read more
Feeling overwhelmed by your to-do list? Agreed to favours you now resent? For such a tiny word, it’s incredibly hard for so many of us to say ‘no’. But try it, explains psychotherapist Sarah Crosby. It could transform your life Why is it that so many of us find it impossible to say ‘no’ – … Read more
Horoscopes: Forget past failures this week, Sagittarius By Sally Brompton for The Mail on Sunday Published: 00:03 GMT, 13 December 2020 | Updated: 00:03 GMT, 13 December 2020 Sagittarius 23 Nov-21 Dec A Solar Eclipse in your sign indicates better times ahead. It’s crucial that you believe you’re capable of anything as the one thing … Read more