Tom Mercer - Lifestyle Reviewer

October Half Term Breaks 2026: The Same Butlin’s Room Costs £49, £113 or £388 – And the City Break That Gets Cheaper

A four-night Butlin’s break in Minehead, two-bedroom Comfort Room, four people sharing, costs £49 from 12 October. The identical room

Which? ran the numbers on Friday and found £39 one-way Eurostar seats to Lille, Brussels, Paris and Amsterdam for travel

Five nights in a caravan on the English coast at October half term: from £49. Five nights in a lodge

Sun, swimming, 31 degrees and no reapplying – how Wild’s 72hr antiperspirant roll-on handled a full family pool day, swims included.

Thermal layers, hard runs, hot lodges – why skiing is secretly the toughest test for any deodorant, and the 72hr antiperspirant that passed it.

Heritage Open Days 2026 runs 11-20 September, opening more than 1,000 buildings free across England. Here’s what to book now, and what to skip.

The number moulded into the lid of nearly every cool box sold in Britain – “keeps ice for up to

A “four-berth” tent sleeps two adults in anything approaching comfort. That’s not cynicism, it’s arithmetic, and the tent industry has

Since last autumn, the ground staff at a Ryanair gate have earned €2.50 for every oversized bag they catch. There’s

The queue at the Malaga car hire desk moves at roughly one family every eleven minutes, and most of that