IKEA has opened a new small-format store in Harlow, Essex, the first of three such sites due this year, just over 100 days after acquiring the lease.

Milton Keynes is recognised for being home to one of just 22 IKEA stores in the UK – but now it has some serious competition from a Scandinavian rival.

A new generation of predominantly young female textile artists, including Bitten Hojmark, Inger Nilsson and Vivianne Sjolin, ...