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Beko looks at homes in a post pandemic world

Beko's report in collaboration with The Future Laboratory explores the long-term impact of global lockdowns on how we'll live in the near future.

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Wild Week at Heligan

Heligan is poised to take on the challenge to create an enormous, World Record-breaking, insect hotel. Insects are crucial to life and Cornish bugs need a new hotel to provide them with a safe place to shelter and hibernate. The current World Record stands at 81.26m³ (2869.66 ft³), so the team will need help from as many Heligan Wild Things as they can.

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AntikBar original vintage poster auction

Always a great opportunity to buy a fascinating piece of art, AntikBar is holding their next Original Vintage Poster Auction on Saturday 17 April. This online auction has over 500 lots featuring motor racing - find the perfect gift for the car enthusiast in your life - as well as vintage posters covering cinema, propaganda, travel and sport.

View the auction catalogue and register to bid:

— Invaluable at www.invaluable.com/catalog/vc3yj2qz2v

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Today we love: Qwillow from Ikea

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Plant clinic - keeping your plants fighting fit

Keep plants in full bloom is never that easy... despite our best efforts, plants can all too easily get out of shape. So if you want to learn how to care for them, Miracle-Gro is offering free virtual Plant Clinic appointments with gardening expert Kate Turner.

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5 rules for any DIY decorating job

Five rules for any house decorating job.

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Keep involved in fighting climate change

Gareth King, WWF's head of climate change, and Michaela Strachan are particularly concerned by the impact rising temperatures and extreme flooding have on bio-diversity and they have been looking at fairly simple things we can all do to curb climate change.

1) Keep your garden wild: plant native flowers for pollinators and keep a patch of your garden unmown and unweeded to help attract bees, hedgehogs, beetles and slugs.