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These tools will rearrange your home without lifting a finger

That’s a shame because at certain times in your life there are few more useful tools for your PC.Floor planners take the guesswork out of designing your home and garden. They let you move furniture, plants and even doors and staircases around with the click of a mouse, so that you can experiment with designs which would be impossible in the real world.

US business invokes War of the Roses with ‘be reyt’ and 'our kid’ candles inspired by founders’ cross-Pennine rivalry

Co-founders Oliver Burr and Alex Hickson hail from Harrogate in North Yorkshire and Blackpool in Lancashire respectively, and created the £12.99 ‘Be Reyt’ and ‘Our Kid’ candles to honour their home counties.

Hats on for Royal Ascot 2021 as US milliner Jenny Roberts creates beautiful floral tribute for Brain Tumour Research

Award-winning Harrogate milliner Jenny Roberts is making hats at a romping speed after being inundated with requests for her creations to wear at Royal Ascot Ladies’ Day next week.

JB Gill on how he went from being a pop star with JLS to a successful farmer and countryside champion

Russell Senior, the Sheffield-born guitarist and violinist, left Pulp and went on to be an antiques dealer, while Cindy Birdsong quit the Supremes to follow her childhood dream and become a nurse. JB Gill, though, swapped pop stardom with JLS for life as a farmer.

York fashion designer Matty Bovan wins the double in the prestigious 2021 International Woolmark Prize

Selected by an impressive panel of judges including Carine Roitfeld, Ib Kamara, Shaway Yeh, Sinéad Burke, Tasha Liu, Thom Browne, Tim Blanks and Julie Davies, this marks the second time in the award’s modern history that one designer has been awarded the two major prizes.

US childrenswear label House of Juniors is the cool kidswear brand of choice for A-list parents P Diddy, Snoop Dogg, Chris Brown and Kylie Jenner

When rapper P Diddy posted a picture on Instagram of his twin daughters, Jessie and D’Lila Combs, dressed in matching white faux fur coats with oversized cowl hoods, Yorkshire childrenswear brand House of Juniors went viral.

Want the best chance of passing your MOT first time? Buy a Ferrari

Drivers looking for a car most likely to pass its first MOT have been advised to choose a Ferrari.Analysis of test pass rates shows that the Italian sports car brand has the best overall record in Britain, with 95.4 per cent of all cars passing their first MOT at three years old.

Last-minute staycationers predicted to swell summertime traffic levels

Drivers abandoning planned foreign holidays this summer could lead to a massive surge in traffic on the UK’s roads.

How Masham's 'Peculier' governing body became known as the 'richest plum in Christendom'

What’s not to like about a small town set in glorious countryside, which has a thriving artistic community, two breweries, several fine cafes and pubs, and a sheep fair? And, for a community with a population that is just under 2,000 in all, there’s an awful lot more going on.

Hull Truck reopens with a trilogy of monologues with Julie Hesmondhalgh among the star names

Emerging from a 14-month pandemic-enforced closure over the past fortnight we’ve shared the stories of how the Leeds Playhouse and Sheffield Theatres have roared back into the spotlight and today it’s Hull Truck on to which the stage light lands.