Discover luxury interior design ideas that combine vintage finds, timeless furniture, rich colours and classic British influences to create an elegant home with character.

Spider season is here, and if the sight of an eight-legged visitor thundering across the living room fills you with horror, you’re not alone. From sealing gaps and reducing clutter to peppermint, conkers and humane spider catchers, here are 10 practical ways to make your home less inviting to spiders this autumn.

Years later, I learned these were the mother sauces of French cooking – the five classic recipes that form the foundation of countless dishes.

The Lake District doesn’t stop when summer ends. From wild swimming and spectacular mountain drives to luxury spa hotels, Michelin-starred dining and the Cumbrian coast, we share ten reasons why travelling beyond peak summer can be one of the best ways to experience the Lakes.

In the heart of Mayfair, moments from Green Park and Berkeley Square, Bocconcino serves generous Italian cooking in an elegant setting. Sandy Cadiz-Smith visits for vitello tonnato, lamb, veal Milanese, an exceptional lasagna and irresistible Italian desserts.

Restaurant delivery has transformed the way we eat, bringing greater convenience, more choice and restaurant-quality dishes into our homes. From busy weeknight dinners to relaxed gatherings with friends, we explore how food delivery has changed our dining habits and why it has become part of everyday life.

After several months with the Eufy C15, we’ve discovered what living with a robot lawn mower is really like. From automatic mapping and neat striped cuts to its limitations around lawn edges, here’s our real-world verdict – and why, for an extensive lawn, it has given us more time to actually enjoy the garden.

Back-to-school season has us thinking about the best part of the school day: pudding. From chocolate concrete and cornflake tart to jam roly-poly, school cake and lashings of custard, we’re recreating 10 nostalgic school dinner puddings that taste like childhood.

Cold weather can quickly leave lips feeling dry, flaky and uncomfortable. Our simple five-step autumn lip care routine covers gentle smoothing, moisture, protective balm, SPF and lip colour, plus the everyday habits that can help keep lips soft as temperatures fall.

Baked beans, mayonnaise and even coleslaw – people put some surprisingly strange things on a Sunday roast. We look at 10 weird roast dinner sides people genuinely eat, starting with a Yorkshire favourite I refuse to accept is weird.