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.

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

So, to see a few negative comments regarding the opening of the UK's first 'small' IKEA in the town, I was a little shocked.

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.