TLC

People growing vegetables in a grass verge.

Hull to become first in UK to allow people to grow food on disused land

A house of horrors where potential buyers are banned from viewing it in person and the loo is taped off with ‘do not use’ labels is set to go under the hammer.

Inside £42k Trainspotting-style bungalow where viewings are banned

Where There's Smoke occupies the former Vennell's restaurant in Masham

We try out the Yorkshire restaurant cooking everything over hot coals

Vicki Metcalfe, of Mainline Border Collie Centre, with working 4 1/2 year old Border Collie called Gail. Picture James Hardisty.

How sheepdog 'experience days' are proving popular with dog lovers

Silver Spence, CEO of baby plant specialist Friends Or Friends.(PA)

How to keep your new houseplants looking healthy

Ossett War Memorial Community Centre. (Pic credit: Scott Merrylees)

Christmas gifts for people who love gardening

Top tips to avoid a boiler breakdown this winter

How to maintain your car’s value in seven simple steps

Begonias, seen here at the Arium in Leeds, are difficult to grow from seed. Picture by Simon Hulme.

Mini plants to save time and money this National Gardening Week

Take a look inside the cheapest house in West Yorkshire...

This £10,000 three-bedroom house is the cheapest on the market in West Yorkshire

How can National Trust properties like Fountains Abbey become more accessible?

Tom Richmond: Time to bring the countryside, and spirit of National Trust, to ou...

RHAPSODY IN BLUE: Agapanthus is known as the lily of the Nile.

Gardening: Agapanthus - the look of love

The Dermalogica Stress Positive Eye Lift has an integral cool lifting metal head wand.

Beauty: The quick and easy eye brighten and lift technique

Stewart Calligan gave his fishing boat a through clean as he waits for the weather conditions to take a turn for the better.

Sea fishing: Easterlies leave me plotting not fishing

GOING TO POT: Indoor plants deserve decent care and attention.

Going to pot '¨so houseplants'¨don't have to...

Tidy leaves from around the stems of plants

Give your garden some Christmas TLC

COLD COMFORT: Plants like Callistemon need protection from the British winter.

Ready to take on Jack Frost?

Living the Dream: Hectic life on the farm is like sitting on a swing

Justicia brandegeeana, alias the shrimp plant, which is gaining in popularity as a colourful house plant.

Think big for shrimp

In case you hadn’t twigged, trees do need like TLC

Agapanthus will benefit from a hefty mulch.

A timely warning
In some parts of the country, the first frosts arrived in August, but most plants were hardy enough to survive such and unseasonal and unexpected plummet in temperature.

Aston Martin DB6 in need of TLC sells for £131,000

Thomas Houghton

Farm Of The Week: Sheep farmer happy to go it alone

Co-op finds dividend in creating habitats for hard-hit bees

Scandal highlights political failures in managing the NHS

Alpacas take pity on Mansfield Al, the runaway piglet

Divide and rule

Head warns against too much TLC for pupils who must learn to follow rules

Anyone for strawberries?

Secret of healthy trees is in the preparation

Lawn and order

Star Ben Fogle facing £2m challenge to buy Castaway island
Presenter Ben Fogle has set himself a new challenge – buying the remote island of Taransay where his television career first began.

Charity launched to improve prospects of children in care

Under new ownership

When it pays to go to pot

Runner bean comes back

Pot luck for plants

A lesson in the art of living and learning

The Year Round: Our old faithful tractor will have to keep going