It’s just an hour and a half away by car from Shepherd’s Bush, an hour’s train journey with Chiltern Railways from London’s Marylebone Station, and only 20 minutes from Oxford. Bicester Village is the place to go for high-end and high street bargains, at a fraction of their…

If you don’t fancy the queue in your local Starbucks for your first caffeine hit of the day, then there’s an easy way around it. Before I took delivery of the Verismo 600 coffee machine, I was quite happy with their Via Ready Brew sachets.…