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Scottish Sun
5 hours ago
- Business
- Scottish Sun
B&M shoppers can get a £20 dupe of The White Company's ‘iconic' £110 table lamp
B&M shoppers are snapping up a dupe of The White Company's iconic table lamp - priced nearly £100 less. The lamp features a sleek white concrete base with a large matching shade and sells for just £20 at the popular British discount retailer. 4 B&M is selling a dupe of The White Company's iconic table lamp Credit: Getty 4 The White Company's Clayton Table Lamp currently costs £110 Credit: bmstores 4 The B&M dupe sells for £20 Credit: bmstores The White Company's Clayton Table Lamp, currently priced at £110, has been popular for its minimalist design. The upmarket home brand advertises the lamp as a versatile piece made from natural linen, ideal for bedside tables, consoles and sideboards. B&M claims to offer a knockoff of the sought-after lamp. The discount chain shared a video on social media promoting its own white lamp, with on-screen text that reads, "White Company who?" and "£20 base & shade". The post drew comments from shoppers tempted by the bargains displayed in the video. One user wrote: "I've got to stop looking at these posts, too much temptation." Meanwhile, B&M shoppers can buy a three-person tent for just a fraction of the cost of the North Face equivalent. B&M is selling the Outdoor Adventure 2-3 Person Camping Tent for £18. North Face's Stormbreak 2-Person Tent is currently available for a total of £225. Offering a similar capacity, the more expensive model is described as water-resistant, breathable and lightweight. B&M launches their children's outdoor range which is perfect for summer - there's a £2 bargain that'll easily keep the kids entertained B&M shoppers have also recently spotted a chair originally priced at £100 now selling for just £30. The Louise chair, available in cream and green, measures 58cm wide, 72cm high and 68cm deep, and supports up to around 100kg. Meanwhile, a garden gadget is available for just £1 at B&M. The Modern Solar Table Lamp has been further reduced to £1, down from £1.50. The lamp is 21cm tall and has a rechargeable battery, making it an affordable way to light up an outdoor space on summer nights. It emits a soft, warm white LED light.
The Irish Sun
5 hours ago
- Business
- The Irish Sun
B&M shoppers can get a £20 dupe of The White Company's ‘iconic' £110 table lamp
B&M shoppers are snapping up a dupe of The White Company's iconic table lamp - priced nearly £100 less. The lamp features a sleek white concrete base with a large matching shade and sells for just £20 at the popular British discount retailer. Advertisement 4 B&M is selling a dupe of The White Company's iconic table lamp Credit: Getty 4 The White Company's Clayton Table Lamp currently costs £110 Credit: bmstores 4 The B&M dupe sells for £20 Credit: bmstores The White Company's The upmarket home brand advertises the lamp as a versatile piece made from natural linen, ideal for bedside tables, consoles and sideboards. B&M claims to offer a knockoff of the sought-after lamp. The discount chain shared a Advertisement Read more B&M news The post drew comments from shoppers tempted by the bargains displayed in the video. One user wrote: "I've got to stop looking at these posts, too much temptation." Meanwhile, B&M shoppers can buy B&M is selling the Advertisement Most read in Fabulous North Face's Offering a similar capacity, the more expensive model is described as water-resistant, breathable and lightweight. B&M launches their children's outdoor range which is perfect for summer - there's a £2 bargain that'll easily keep the kids entertained B&M shoppers have also recently spotted a chair originally priced at £100 now selling for just £30. The Louise chair, available in cream and green, measures 58cm wide, 72cm high and 68cm deep, and supports up to around 100kg. Advertisement Meanwhile, a The The lamp is 21cm tall and has a rechargeable battery, making it an affordable way to light up an outdoor space on summer nights. It emits a soft, warm white LED light. Advertisement 4 B&M offers a range of budget-friendly products Credit: bmstores
Daily Mirror
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Sam Thompson's sister Louise opens up -'I can tell when my brother's suffering'
Sam Thompson's sister Louise reflects on his Soccer Aid for UNICEF heroics - and the painful challenges that lie ahead as the feat gets underway TV star Sam Thompson 's sister say her brother won't be afraid to show his vulnerable side on his mammoth 260-mile endurance challenge for Soccer Aid. And Louise says that the feat - which kicked off early this morning - will help smash 'toxic masculinity stereotypes'. She said: 'That's so important at the moment, to show vulnerability as a man. And I just think he'll do that in such a brave way. We need more people breaking down that whole, like, toxic masculinity stereotype, don't we? He is super open about who he is and being vulnerable and authentic.' Sam is delivering the Soccer Aid for UNICEF match ball from last year's stadium, Stamford Bridge in London, to the home of this year's match, Old Trafford in Manchester. Louise added that Sam will try to remain upbeat but she knows deep down he will suffer. She says: 'I know my brother so well, so I'll see the twinges in the eyes. I can tell when my brother's suffering. I can tell when he's lying. I can tell, you know, when you see it in his face.' Louise, 35, is the older sister of Sam, 32. The pair was born in south Kensington, London, and both later starred in Made in Chelsea. The challenge is expected to take five days, and will also see him travel sections by bike. Today he is expected to run 26 miles towards Hemel Hempstead, Herts, and then switch to two wheels to cycle a further 23 miles to Stadium MK in Milton Keynes, in Bucks. Louise says Sam will struggle the most from a mental perspective. She added: 'Those in between moments where it gets quiet and you're left alone with your thoughts, that will be hard - because he's not somebody that is ever quiet. He is always just throwing himself from, one busy work thing to the next - he's not really someone that goes on holiday a lot either. 'He doesn't like to remove himself from his comfort zone, and his routine. So, I think this will really throw him outside of his routine and, provide, some much needed, thinking time.' Sam was yesterday joined on the first leg by This Morning star Josie Gibson who met him and Joel Dommett, who supported Sam for the first leg of his challenge, at the first pit stop of the route. Sam said: 'We've done a half marathon and do you know what, it's way better with Joel. I've actually just begged him to stay, he's the best energy you could ask for and when you set off, you've just got so much nervous energy and you've got adrenaline going and stuff and it's just really nice to be with someone like [Joel]. Joel is like my big brother so it's just really nice to be with someone that I know so well, who can sort of take you on the journey.' Josie pointed out the plasters on Sam's legs and he replied: 'I've just got shin splints but I think loads of people get shin splints. When you're training for these things, I don't think you're ever going to get to the start line without a few niggles here and there." Follow Sam's challenge here:
Daily Mirror
18 hours ago
- Health
- Daily Mirror
'I got stage three cancer thanks to Covid restrictions and a 1990s habit'
Louise says she had never had skin problems until the impact of Covid restrictions altered a freckle on her back A woman who never thought she was at risk of skin cancer developed the disease after having to wait in a car park for hours when her father was in hospital during Covid restrictions. A freckle that had been on Louise Brown's back for decades changed after being in direct sunshine for hours. Louise, 44, said: "I'm not someone who has any moles. So skin cancer, melanoma, anything like that – it never crossed my mind that I was at risk. "My dad was in hospital in July 2021 and only one person was allowed to be with him, due to Covid restrictions. I remember I was out in the car park for hours, and when I got home my husband noticed my back was really burnt." Louise's husband, Kris, grew concerned when he applied cream to her burnt skin and noticed the freckle had become raised and darkened. With Covid restrictions affecting GP appointments, Louise, from West Dunbartonshire, was unable to see her doctor face to face, but after exchanging photos her doctor agreed to refer her to a consultant urgently to reassure her there was nothing to worry about. However, a clerical error led to a delay in diagnosis. "Eight weeks later, I contacted Dermatology as I hadn't heard from them. I assumed this was as a result of the backlog," said Louise, who works full-time as an officer at a union. "They asked me to attend the next day and advised that the referral was marked, in error, as routine and not urgent, and by that point, the freckle had been bleeding." Within 24 hours of the consultation, Louise had the lesion removed under local anaesthetic and following pathology testing, she was given the bombshell news that not only was the freckle cancerous, but it had advanced to stage three. "I was diagnosed the week of my 40th birthday," she recalls. "I had lost my mum to ovarian cancer, at the height of the pandemic. She was admitted to hospital and was on her own for two and a half months before she passed away. That cruel part of life that had happened just the year before. To go to that appointment, which I also had to attend on my own, and be told it was stage three melanoma, you could have knocked me over with a feather." Cancer Research UK reports that over 17,000 people are diagnosed with melanoma in the UK each year. After her initial diagnosis, Louise underwent wider excision surgery in December 2021 removing further tissue surrounding the original site. No sign of cancer was found within the removed tissue and she began targeted treatment, taking medications designed to prevent the cancer's growth. However, a routine check-up detected cancer in the lymph nodes beneath both armpits. "I had surgery in September 2022 to remove my lymph nodes," she explains. "When people saw me coming out of hospital with slits up to my armpits and drains on either side, the reality of the extensive surgery sets in. I'd been through a lot more than just having a little bit of skin removed. "I had another recurrence which was detected in April 2023, this time it came back behind my breast. Even after that diagnosis, some people would ask, 'What do you mean it came back behind your breast? It's skin cancer.' Or after getting a brain scan, people would ask why I was doing that, not realising it's to check for melanoma in my brain. It does bed itself in the body." Louise also underwent immunotherapy treatment to battle the disease after reacting to her initial targeted treatment drugs – but this was also gruelling, causing agony throughout her body as her joints and internal organs became inflamed by the medication. After her most recent surgery in 2023, she has been told there is No Evidence of Disease [NED] and, since finishing treatment in May 2024, is beginning to feel more like herself – meaning she is able to be a mum to her young son, Brendan again. While Louise can't be sure if the sunburn she endured in 2021 was the catalyst for her health battle, she does fear that the use of sunbeds in her youth was a contributing factor. "My mum was ginger and pale skinned. She was covered in moles, and whenever we holidayed when I was a kid, she was neurotic about sun cream," she says. "She always lectured me about sun beds when I was older. I still remember the horror on her face when she came back from work one day and saw a wooden sun bed in my bedroom that I'd hired for a week." Louise admits she dismissed her mum's concerns, and her friends were also fans of tanning salons. "It was the 90s, and friends and I would walk to the local town centre on a Wednesday to go for a sun bed," she explains. "It was an eight-minute holiday. That's what we liked to call it. But if I could tell my younger self anything, it would be to avoid them like the plague." New data released this month by Melanoma Focus has shown that 24% of people in Scotland are using sunbeds at least once per year and 21% at least once per month. Meanwhile, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified ultraviolet (UV) radiation from commercial sunbeds as a Type 1 carcinogen – putting them in line with asbestos and smoking as a known cause of cancer in humans. After everything she's been through, Louise has followed her late mum's example and is unapologetically speaking out about the dangers of UV exposure. "I was on holiday with my husband and friends last year, and I was sitting with my glasses on, under a parasol, factor 50 on from head to toe, 'You're burning you need more cream on you. The Wee one needs more cream.' I am that person now," she says. "If it prevents someone else going through what I have been through, it's worth it. I already know a handful of people who have had moles checked or removed after seeing stuff that I've been putting out online. Some of them have been absolutely fine, whilst others are very early stage or even pre-cancerous." Louise adds, "Some people seem to downplay melanoma as 'just skin cancer,' but I cannot stress enough how dangerous it is. I received treatment at The Beatson [West of Scotland Cancer Centre] and I have to thank my oncologist there, my dermatologist, plastic surgeon and all their teams at the centre for helping save my life. I wouldn't be here without them. And I hope sharing my story helps save someone else from going through this."
Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Louise Thompson shares her ‘great SKIMS t-shirt dupe' you can shop on Amazon
Louise Thompson has managed to track down the perfect alternative to Skims' £48 T-shirt, as she shared the £12 Amazon alternative that she's 'chuffed' with When it comes to wardrobe essentials, a simple white T-shirt is one of the most basic but essential items you can have. Easy to pair with anything, dress up or down and an instant way to make something look crisp and put together, we would hazard a guess that there's not a wardrobe in the world that doesn't have one. However if you are in the market for adding a white T-shirt to your outfit rotations, Louise Thompson has found the perfect one that's affordable, flattering and easy to wear. Posting on Instagram, Louise shared a link to Amazon's Risipu Women's Short Sleeve T-Shirt, writing: 'I have found a great SKIMS dupe T-shirt from Amazon and I'm feeling chuffed about it.' It's worth noting that Louise's post was tagged as an ad, presumably with the former Made in Chelsea star working alongside Amazon. However there's no denying that the affordable tee is a perfect pick for anyone wanting to get the SKIMS look for less. Whilst SKIMS' Short-Sleeved Slim-Fit Stretch-Cotton T-Shirt is priced at £48, Louise's Amazon doppleganger is much more affordable at £11.99. It gives you the same slim-fitting and streamlined look, with a cropped length that hits just on your waist for a flattering fit. Available in five different colours including white, black and pink, it's a great addition to your wardrobe basics. We also spotted similar styles at Hollister, where its Soft Stretch Seamless Fabric Longline Baby Tee is on sale down from £15.95 to £9.99, and New Look, where the £12.99 White Crew Neck Short Sleeve Bodysuit is ideal for getting a longer fit and more coverage. However the Amazon Risipu Women's Short Sleeve T-Shirt is a great buy, with a classic crew neck and made from a soft, breathable and stretchy fabric that's 5% cotton. It's also available in sizes small to extra large. It's also been highly rated by other Amazon shoppers, with one saying: 'Soft and true to size, stretchy lightweight fabric easily washable, easy to dress up and down, comfortable and stylish option for everyday wear.' Another agreed: 'The quality of this T-shirt is excellent and is breathable as well! I got the black one and it goes well with any colour and type of pants. This is also great for layering clothes. The sleeves are short and go halfway above my elbows. It's cropped and it shows my waist.' One however mentioned: 'Fabric was soft but T-shirt was extremely see through.'
