Jayne Dowle
Freelance Reporter at Freelance
Writing & talking about where we live, how we live - & how we used to live - for Times, Yorkshire Post, House Beautiful, Grand Designs... Rep @NorthbankTalent
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2 days ago |
yorkshirepost.co.uk | Jayne Dowle
If you remember, in 1984, George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Oceania – of which Britain was part – was perpetually at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia, no-one could quite remember which. All that was missing were the overalls, the ‘pinkish-grey’ stew for lunch and Victory coffee, but given the foreboding tone of the government’s strategic defence review (SDR), these will surely only be a matter of time.
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5 days ago |
yorkshirepost.co.uk | Jayne Dowle
The study, by Nuke From Orbit, a fintech start-up, reveals that 29 per cent of UK adults have been victims of recent phone theft, up from 17 per cent in 2023. This number includes my 19-year-old daughter, who had her phone stolen from her bag at the Creamfields music festival in Cheshire in August.
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5 days ago |
yorkshirepost.co.uk | Jayne Dowle
This number includes my 19-year-old daughter, who had her phone stolen from her bag at the Creamfields music festival in Cheshire in August. We’d agree with James O’Sullivan, Nuke From Orbit’s chief executive, who says, “the current solutions - and the police response - simply do not match the scale of the problem.”Lizzie’s phone was securely zipped in an underarm handbag. She remembers looking at it to check the time, re-zipping the bag, and then, it was gone.
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1 week ago |
housebeautiful.com | Jayne Dowle
After a tumultuous time tackling his time management skills and four grillings on the sofa, John Cooper, 47, a design and technology teacher from Stockport, Greater Manchester, has been crowned a worthy winner of the sixth series of BBC's Interior Design Masters. John was pitched in the final against Rita to revamp holiday cottages at the madly Mediterranean-inspired village of Portmeirion, North Wales, where cult 1960s TV series The Prisoner was filmed.
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1 week ago |
housebeautiful.com | Jayne Dowle
Coming a very creditable second in the final of BBC's Interior Design Masters, Rita Millat, 43, an interior designer and visual merchandiser who lives near Lancaster, Lancashire, leaned into her childhood dreams of 'cute, cosy, romantic' chocolate box English country cottages to create a pastel-hued Portmeirion retreat – with the bright orange staircase a brave standout move.
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