5 h. ago Norvegr duvet review: Can a £36,000 duvet improve my sleep quality?

Being swaddled in duck fluff is the new financial flex. Ellie Davis prepares to bed down and put it to the test

Economics

6 d. ago Prodrive’s racing simulator review: A £60,000 thing of beauty

Prodrive’s new driving simulator champions the very best of British design

Economics

9 d. ago Camp vampires! Frisky throuples! How Stephanie Rothman became queen of the B

The director’s mastery of trashy, low-budget exploitation films like It’s a Bikini World and Group Marriage turned her into a cult icon. Now, aged 88, she’s finding out they’re more relevant than everStephanie Rothman first came across the term “exploitation” in a review of one of her own films. It was 1970, and her second solo-directed feature, The Student Nurses, a small-budget indie about trainees at an inner-city hospital, set against Los Angeles’s bubbling counterculture, was doing well at the US box office. (It eventually made more than $1m from a $150,000 budget.) Rothman was pleased but the review took her aback. It called it an “exploitation film” with “surprising depth”.Fifty-five years on and Rothman is a cult legend who fully embraces the label. “I started out with a very snobbish attitude,” she says on a video call from California. “I was shocked that’s what I was making! But as time went on, I began to appreciate what I was able to do, which was to take elements of pop...

Politics

1 week ago Scientists find PROOF of a formula for happiness: Find joy in the small things

Just five minutes a day performing 'micro-acts of joy' that foster positive emotions is enough to banish stress, boost health and improve sleep quality, psychologists discovered.

Politics

1 week ago 'I got a pedestal fan to battle the heatwave and it majorly improved my sleep'

The Morphy Richards fan is probably one of my best heatwave shopping buys that I don't regret getting and it sent to me sleep on sweltering nights

Events

3 w. ago One spoonful of kitchen cupboard item can help sleep say doctors

A study found that the breakfast staple can help to reduce stress and anxiety levels, as well as improve sleep - and all it takes is one spoonful a day

Politics

3 w. ago Heatwave shoppers snap up 'dream' cooling bedding to survive sweaty nights

The struggle of tossing and turning in sweaty bed sheets is an unfortunate reality of summer nights, but the right bedding can significantly improve sleep comfort

Events

4 w. ago Scientists discover 'remarkable' diet that's said to ease insomnia in one day

According to US scientists, who tracked dozens of adults, those who stuck to the diet improved their sleep quality by almost a fifth in just 24 hours.

Events