Friday, November 13
Author: Caitlin Rooney
Caitlin Rooney
Caitlin Rooney has been covering Greater Manchester for the best part of a decade. She started at a local paper in Salford, moved to digital, and spent three years on the housing and planning beat before going independent. She has sat through more council cabinet meetings than she cares to count and still reads the planning portal on her phone. She writes about transport, housing, devolution, policing, and the daily grind of how a city actually runs. She has a particular interest in who benefits from regeneration and who gets moved along by it. Caitlin lives in Chorlton. She thinks the Metrolink is both Manchester's best and worst infrastructure, and does not trust anyone who calls the city centre "town".
The Amazon Prime home deals landing ahead of Prime Big Deal Days are, genuinely, some of the better things on offer from the sale event. With discounts running across furniture, kitchen appliances, cleaning tech, and décor, there is enough here to do real work on a room, or several.According to StockTitan, Prime Big Deal Days runs on 7 and 8 October, starting at 12:01 a.m. PDT, and is available to Prime members. Early discounts are already live ahead of those dates, so there is no particular reason to wait if something you want is already reduced.The Amazon Prime Home Deals…
The Greenworks Prime Day deals are already live ahead of Amazon’s two-day sale on 6 and 7 October, and if your garden shed is looking a little sparse, now is a decent time to do something about it. From lawn mowers to pressure washers, a solid chunk of outdoor power kit is discounted right now, and some of it is going for its lowest price of the year.Worth knowing before you start clicking: Yahoo Finance reports that Greenworks has launched its POWERALL™ 24V lineup, covering more than 150 tools and bundles. The new 24V tools feature brushless motors that, according…
Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days tool deals run on 6 and 7 October, and if you have been putting off building out your DIY toolkit, this two-day sale is a reasonable moment to stop procrastinating. From compound mitre saws to pocket hole jig kits, there are discounts across both power tools and hand tools that any dedicated DIYer will actually use.The scale of the event is not trivial. An Adobe Analytics forecast reported by CNBC puts expected Prime Big Deal Days spending at $8.1 billion. Worth knowing before you assume every deal is a genuine bargain: according to Yahoo Finance,…
YNAB budgeting tips and tricks are worth knowing before you sink serious time into the platform, because there is a learning curve, and a few smart habits early on will save you a lot of head-scratching later. YNAB, which stands for You Need a Budget, works as a digital envelope system: every pound (or dollar, if you’re across the pond) gets assigned to a category before it gets spent. The idea is that your money has a job before it leaves your account, not after.If you’re weighing up whether it’s worth the commitment, the numbers are not trivial. Business Insider…
With October Prime Day upon us, the question of Amazon Prime membership cost is back on the table, specifically, whether signing up actually saves you money or just feels like it does. The maths is simpler than you might expect, and the answer depends almost entirely on how often you click ‘buy’.What You’re Paying and What You GetMost members pay $139 per year or $14.99 per month. There is a cheaper route: the Amazon Prime Student programme offers the same perks for $7.49 per month or $69 annually, available to adults aged 18 to 24. Beyond that, the headline benefits…
Amazon’s Amazon Prime Big Deal Days power tools deals are already live ahead of the two-day sale, with early discounts of up to 51% on cordless drills, sanders, nailers and rotary kits from DeWalt, Makita and Dremel. The event itself runs 6-7 October, but a handful of the better offers have surfaced early.If you’ve got autumn projects stacking up, a fence that needs sorting, a bathroom cabinet that’s been sitting in flat-pack purgatory since March, this is a reasonable moment to plug the gaps in your toolkit. A word upfront: several of these are tool-only deals. That means no battery,…
Anthony Vaccarello’s Saint Laurent gold collection landed at Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2026 as both a celebration and a statement, with the Eiffel Tower glowing behind a runway drenched in every shade of the metal from yellowy 24K through to deep, antique pigments.Ten years into his tenure at Saint Laurent, Vaccarello has never been subtle about his intentions. This show was not about subtlety either. It was about accumulation: of texture, of history, of a very particular kind of excess that somehow never tips into vulgarity.The Saint Laurent Gold Collection: Everything, All at OnceSafari silhouettes, oversize sleeves and aviator-inspired jackets…
Lioness Season 3 alternatives are worth lining up now, because the show’s third run premieres on Paramount+ on Sunday, 2 August, and once it’s done, the wait for whatever comes next could be a long one. Zoe Saldaña stars as CIA senior case officer Joe McNamara, running a programme built almost entirely around recruiting women as undercover operatives, and the show has been a genuine hit for the streamer.According to Deadline, Nicole Kidman serves as an executive producer on the series, and Season 3 brings in Morgan Freeman as U.S. Secretary of State Edwin Mullins. That’s a considerable addition to…
The best Prime Day headphone deals are already live on Amazon, weeks before October Prime Big Deal Days officially kicks off on 6 October, with Bose, Sony and Beats all cutting flagship models to their lowest prices yet.You don’t have to set an alarm for the sale itself. Several of the brands Amazon has already confirmed as Prime Big Deal Days participants (including Sony and Soundcore by Anker) are discounting now, and on current evidence the early prices are competitive enough to act on without waiting.The Prime Day headphone deals worth your attention right nowThe headline offer is on the…
A spectacular campaign shot in Roundstone, Connemara, stars Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Celia Holman Lee, Max Hart, Travy, KhakiKid, Lauren Whelan, Marwa Noelle Ali and Ivana Miličević. Coming Home: An Island in Motion unites eight prominent names from Irish cinema, music, fashion, sport and culture in the striking 2026 campaign unveiled by Ireland Fashion Week powered by Visa, set amid the magnificent Atlantic scenery of Roundstone, Connemara. On 18 September the campaign began life as a large-scale projection of the Ireland Fashion Week 2026 hero image onto the Convention Centre, with a city-wide OOH roll-out across 85 Dublin locations following. Captured by…
The best night serums 2025 has to offer are not just an extra step in your routine, they are doing actual work while you sleep, addressing hydration, skin texture, dark spots, collagen production and barrier strength without you having to think about it. The science behind that, according to board-certified dermatologist and University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine professor Dr Nada Elbuluk, is straightforward: ‘While you sleep, your skin shifts into repair mode, which includes acceleration of cell turnover, growth hormone peaks, and blood flow to the skin increases. A good night serum should help support that process.’That…
Apple has released iOS 27.0.1 to address the iPhone 18 Pro rebooting fix that users have been waiting for since the handset launched, tackling a Face ID glitch that was freezing devices before forcing an unwanted restart. The update also sorts two other bugs that had been annoying early adopters of the new Pro line.It is a fairly busy patch cycle for Apple right now. The iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are not the only new devices causing headaches, with the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 also affected by random restart issues. All told, a…
