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BBC News
a day ago
- Business
- BBC News
Cumberland Council shopfront grants available once more
More than £100,000 is being made available as a scheme aimed at improving tired shopfronts Council is encouraging property owners to apply for grants to enable work it says "brings pride back" into town centres and high than 100 premises in Cumbria have been upgraded, with 11 vacant units brought back into use as a result of previous funding, according to the Labour-led leader Mark Fryer hailed those efforts as a "great success". Among the shops to have benefited is Maryport's With Love a cafe, the building, on Senhouse Street, had stood empty since the 1980s until Victoria Scott and her sister, Samantha Cartwright, opened their studio earlier this their landlord having received a grant to undertake work to the front, Mrs Scott says she is "super proud" of the way it looks."It's been beautifully done. Several people have told us how stunning it looks," he said. Sean Parnaby, chairman of the Maryport Business Group, welcomed the grant scheme's return and encouraged businesses to apply for it."It's needed in the town. Although the cost of buying a shop here is relatively low, the expense of transforming a front can quickly make bringing the property back into use unviable, so a helping hand from the council is important."Our town centre is also a conservation zone, meaning any work has to be done to the right standard."The money comes from the government's UK Shared Prosperity Fund and information about how to apply is available on the council's website. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
Glasgow Times
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
'Car crash TV': Glasgow designer on her exit from hit show
Victoria Scott, a project director with flexible workspace company CoVault, groans as she reveals the string of disasters which led to her dismissal by judge Michelle Ogundehin. 'It was car-crash TV, no doubt about that,' she says. 'Absolutely everything went wrong that could have gone wrong.' Victoria Scott (Image: Gordon Terris/Newsquest) Victoria has dazzled judges over the last five weeks with her stunning, contemporary designs for everything from a youth hostel room to a training room for dogs. Viewers of Friday night's show, which moved from its usual Thursday night spot because of VE Day programming, saw Victoria struggle with wonky wallpaper, tricky ceiling roses and paste that would not stick…. 'It was so frustrating, because I thought my design idea was actually good, and followed the brief,' she explains. 'I just couldn't make anything work.' READ NEXT: Glasgow designer makes mark on TV show The designers were asked to create relaxed, luxury hospitality boxes at Twickenham, home of English rugby. Victoria, who lives in the West End, did her research by visiting the Scottish national team's Glasgow home at Hampden and some of the city's other stadia. 'I decided to go down the route of using a vintage England shirt as my starting point, which combines navy, white and red,' she explains. 'I turned the design into a wallpaper, but when it arrived, the navy was actually purple. 'I spent hours one night, painting all the purple bits blue.' READ NEXT: 'It was the end of blackouts and air raids and fear' as Glasgow marked VE Day She sighs. 'It took ages,' she adds. 'And then when we tried to put it up, it would not stick. We had to use double-sided tape in the end.' A fluted ceiling rose Victoria designed also fell apart just before judging. 'The petals were falling off, it was just awful,' she groans. 'The whole thing was horrendous.' The programme does not focus too much on the behind-the-scenes calamities, however, and Victoria's finished room does receive praise from the judges. Despite the painful end to her time on the show, Victoria says she loved the experience. 'I'm proud of what I achieved, which was way more than I ever thought I was capable of,' she says. 'I'm so passionate about interior design and this was an amazing opportunity.' Her next project is two-fold – doing up her new home, which she says she 'can't wait' to get started on – and preparing for the arrival of her first baby. 'There is a lot going on,' she smiles. 'I'll always be really pleased I did Interior Design Masters, I'm so happy to have met such lovely people on the show. It has been the biggest whirlwind of my life.' Interior Design Masters continues on Thursday on BBC One.
The Herald Scotland
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
'Car crash TV': Glasgow designer on her exit from hit show
'It was car-crash TV, no doubt about that,' she says. 'Absolutely everything went wrong that could have gone wrong.' Victoria Scott (Image: Gordon Terris/Newsquest) Victoria has dazzled judges over the last five weeks with her stunning, contemporary designs for everything from a youth hostel room to a training room for dogs. Viewers of Friday night's show, which moved from its usual Thursday night spot because of VE Day programming, saw Victoria struggle with wonky wallpaper, tricky ceiling roses and paste that would not stick…. 'It was so frustrating, because I thought my design idea was actually good, and followed the brief,' she explains. 'I just couldn't make anything work.' Read more: The designers were asked to create relaxed, luxury hospitality boxes at Twickenham, home of English rugby. Victoria, who lives in the West End, did her research by visiting the Scottish national team's Glasgow home at Hampden and some of the city's other stadia. 'I decided to go down the route of using a vintage England shirt as my starting point, which combines navy, white and red,' she explains. 'I turned the design into a wallpaper, but when it arrived, the navy was actually purple. 'I spent hours one night, painting all the purple bits blue.' She sighs. 'It took ages,' she adds. 'And then when we tried to put it up, it would not stick. We had to use double-sided tape in the end.' A fluted ceiling rose Victoria designed also fell apart just before judging. 'The petals were falling off, it was just awful,' she groans. 'The whole thing was horrendous.' The programme does not focus too much on the behind-the-scenes calamities, however, and Victoria's finished room does receive praise from the judges. Despite the painful end to her time on the show, Victoria says she loved the experience. 'I'm proud of what I achieved, which was way more than I ever thought I was capable of,' she says. 'I'm so passionate about interior design and this was an amazing opportunity.' Her next project is two-fold – doing up her new home, which she says she 'can't wait' to get started on – and preparing for the arrival of her first baby. 'There is a lot going on,' she smiles. 'I'll always be really pleased I did Interior Design Masters, I'm so happy to have met such lovely people on the show. It has been the biggest whirlwind of my life.' Interior Design Masters continues on Thursday on BBC One.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'My Interior Design Masters exit was a car crash and soul-destroying'
Interior Design Masters contestant Victoria Scott told Yahoo UK about her "car crash" experience of being sent home from the BBC show. As a Scottish native, the designer admits it was a "sickner" being sent home at the English rugby grounds where she was tasked with designing a premium hospitality suite at Twickenham. Scott narrowly missed out on the quarter finals of Interior Design Masters, here she takes us behind the scenes. Is it a disaster? Is it car crash TV? Do you know, Alan Carr is always a total breath of fresh air when he comes in but see when he then starts picking holes in your design, you're like: "Alright!" I think my exit was car crash TV, 100%. I felt like I'd really put a lot of thought into the user and the actual client being Twickenham as well. Is it a disaster? Is it car crash TV?Victoria Scott Maybe I over analysed everything. I tried to learn from my mistakes in previous episodes as well, so printing the stripes rather than painting the stripes but it all went terribly wrong. Whatever could have gone wrong did go wrong. Seeing the striped paper was horrible. It was really horrible and seeing a real life scenario, if you stand back and it looks terrible then you find another way. You'll go get it reprinted or you think actually, no, let's scrap that idea. Let's go back to the old fashioned way of painting it. In real life, you'd have time to do that and money to buy paint but we had neither so we just had to go with it and find a way of getting that paper on the wall. You just have to keep going. You don't have time to stall and find other ways. Nobody had any money left. It was a tumbleweed of disaster. I thought I was being clever getting the stripes printed but then when I picked them up, they were purple instead of blue. The whole concept was based around this vintage England rugby shirt which had a beautiful dark blue with the white and red. I didn't want it to be all white and red — too in your face English rugby. So that's why I wanted to have the blue in there as well... And the blue was purple! So what I had to do before even getting to Twickenham was roll it all out in a massive floor space in the office and paint by hand because I didn't have any money to get them reprinted. It was actually soul destroying to be honest. It just took forever and I was crawling about the floor doing this. Then you want to make it not look patchy. Because these boxes are £6,000 to rent per event, you don't want it to look as if you've been crawling about the floor painting a bit of paper to put on the wall! That wasn't great. The whole mirror thing was a disaster. My carpenter was not loving life... He was frosty. Again, tried and tested in a previous episode, I thought it would be dead easy. No bother at all. See right at the end when there was a countdown to go and we're trying to get that bloody rose on the ceiling which I spent so much time doing. I thought it could have been a really lovely focal point and then it starts all falling off. And I'm like, "Oh man." I knew I was going home. I was confident in my design, the execution was horrible, but maybe the only thing that could have swayed Michelle [Ogundehin] ever so slightly was the fact that I'd really tried to dissect the brief and take on board what she'd actually asked for. So she'd asked for an informal lunch set up and I feel that I did that with the high height table. There wasn't a massive table set because I had no money. I wanted it to be functional as well. I feel like I'd really ticked a lot of boxes. So the thought process is there but the execution was not. Who is on Interior Design Masters 2025? (BBC) You don't see half of Interior Design Masters! There are a lot of emotions that happen behind the scenes that never make the final cut which is wonderful actually because nobody's there to see somebody breaking their heart. That's the two bits of information that my dad gave to me before starting. He says, "Whatever you do, do not cry and when you get excited about it, you get more high pitched and you talk quicker and quicker and quicker, so just keep calm." I never made stand out space, I do regret that. I had just the best time. Truly it was a once in a lifetime experience. I met so many wonderful, wonderful people. An experience that only a handful of people ever get the chance to to take part in. It was amazing. I was so distraught to get sent home when I did. I had so much left to prove. Being quite a patriotic Scottish person as well, it was a real sickner getting sent home at the English rugby ground. I know maybe I was a wee bit disadvantaged being Scottish designing for English rugby but you know what it doesn't matter who your client is. Ultimately last week your client was a dog. Victoria Scott spoke to Lily Waddell. Interior Design Masters is on at 8pm on BBC One on Wednesday instead of Thursday next week.
Glasgow Times
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
Glasgow home of Interior Design Masters contestant for sale
The one-bed tenement on Cecil Street in the city's West End is lavishly decorated with her signature 'contemporary lux' style. Owned by Glasgow-based Victoria Scott, who's in this year's season of the programme fronted by Alan Carr. Fans of the aspiring designer's work can grab a readymade slice of her style with this stunning property, which featured in some of the footage of her home life on the show. Victoria spoke with the Glasgow Times before the show started and explained how she'd found the experience of being on her favourite TV Show. Victoria Scott (Image: Gordon Terris/Newsquest)It feels 'a little surreal', admits Victoria Scott, to be taking part in a television show she has adored since it first aired more than six years ago. 'I've been obsessed with it, so now to be on it – that is definitely very weird,' she says, with a nervous laugh. 'You just don't want to make a fool of yourself….' (Image: Rettie)Victoria, a project director with flexible workspace company CoVault, has now put her gorgeous Glasgow home on the market. Labelled by the estate agent as 'an interior designer's delight', it features an expansive living room with a floor-to-ceiling bay window looking out onto the leafy Cecil Street. The vintage furniture and parquet flooring complement the black fireplace, which is embellished with gold details. Set within an attractive Victorian blonde sandstone townhouse, the flat has many high-spec finishes, including Farrow and Ball 'Tourbillon' hand-printed wallpaper in the entrance hallway and living room ceiling. READ MORE: Well-known English rockers to host Glasgow gig Victoria spoke about reluctantly selling her flat, 'I'll be so sad to see it go. I really put my heart and soul into it. The flat was the start of my passion for interior design. 'Getting to decorate the flat exactly as I wanted to lit a fire in my belly, and I'll always love it for that. 'The area is beautiful, and the location could not be more perfect for enjoying all the delights the West End has to offer.' (Image: Rettie) The 'wee toilet' in the flat is something that Victoria said she was especially proud of and features Milton and King 'Ornithology' wallpaper which carries some of the birds, flora and fauna onto the ceiling. It also features a gallery-style modern kitchen, which leads to the bedroom. An explosion of colour, the blue and pink bedroom has bespoke fitted wardrobes and a luxury en suite bathroom. The pink and white striped ceiling in the en suite is a feature that fans of her efforts in the show's first episode will be familiar with. On the first programme, the brief was to design rooms for a Lake District youth hostel and Victoria admitted judge Michelle Ogundehin 'is very strict, very professional, and has very strong ideas about what works – which were quite different to mine,' she laughs, with a half-groan. Glasgow-based Ese Johnson ended up going out in the first round, with Victoria also in the bottom three. The second episode saw the contestants take on decking out shipping containers, which had been turned into offices. (Image: Rettie) Victoria fared better, coming in runner-up with her music-themed office space, which used a drum kit for coffee tables and light fixtures. Victoria is the oldest of four children who grew up on the family's dairy farm in the East Renfrewshire village of Neilston. She remembers her mum's 'can-do' attitude from childhood. 'There was never much spare cash sloshing about, so my mum was always very thrifty when it came to creating a lovely family home for us,' she explains. 'She took night classes to learn how to wallpaper and decorate walls, and did City and Guilds courses in things like pottery decoration and creating wood effects in paint. 'I definitely take my flair for 'arty farty' things from my mum.' She's progressed to the third week, which will air this Thursday, 24 April, at 8pm.
