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Spotlight on Camden Town
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Buy of the week: Camden Town
This two-bedroom flat has a pretty park on its doorstep, while buzzing Camden Town is only 10 minutes’ walk away. Big sash windows and high ceilings give a spacious feel and there’s a private garden with a studio/home office (£525,000).
Swap of the week: Willersey, Glouc
This little Cotswolds beauty is just across the road from the village green and duck pond. For £530,000 you get beams, exposed stone walls and an open fireplace, plus four bedrooms, a useful attic room and lush gardens to enjoy.
Life-changer: Trescowe, Cornwall
For a project brimming with potential, what about this coastal home, yours for £545,000? The family space includes six bedrooms, while its collection of outbuildings overlooking an acre of gardens could become income-generating holiday lets.
Spotlight on Camden Town
The shops and markets clustered around the high street and canal make Camden one of the most colourful of London's neighbourhoods. The area's period homes and loft-style apartments attract a mix of homebuyers.
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Offers and giveaways
Fantastic giveaways, freebies and discounts
Available at Heal’s: Ligne Roset’s Nador headboard in Indiana leather blanc, £1,469, bed frame, £1,729; and Kas Miami Stripe bed linen, from £15
Exclusive 15 per cent off at Heal’s
Until Sunday 27 May
Brighten up your home and garden this season with a 15 per cent discount at Heal’s available online, mobile and in store – exclusive to Evening Standard Readers only.
Visit Heal’s this spring for a wide selection of furniture and accessories for every room in the home.
Offer available online at www.heals.co.uk and at all Heal’s Stores:
• 196 Tottenham Court Road, London
• 234 King’s Road, London
• 49-51 Eden Street, Kingston
• Tunsgate, Guildford, Surrey
• 1-2 Duke Street, Brighton
• Redbrick, 218 Bradford Road, Batley
TO CLAIM YOUR 15 PER CENT DISCOUNT
Download your PDF voucher here.
Present the voucher at any of the above stores, or, alternatively enter promotion code ES3040 at the checkout when shopping online at www.heals.co.uk.
Terms and conditions:
Offer valid 2 – 27 May 2012, inclusive. Offer cannot be used to purchase clearance furniture, gift vouchers, antiques, selected carpets and rugs, fitted kitchens and bathrooms, selected concessions or in conjunction with interest free credit or with any other promotional offer. Heal’s reserves the right to reject any application if it deems in its sole discretion that the application has been forged, photocopied or otherwise tampered with. The application must be given up at time of purchase. There is no cash alternative in whole or part. Promoter: Heal’s.
Beat the hosepipe ban with the 700-litre Rainstore rainwater tank
Win a hosepipe ban beater
Buy the 700-litre Rainstore for £422. Plus one to give away
Make the most of the spring rains and beat the hosepipe ban with the 700-litre Rainstore rainwater tank, which collects up to 70 watering cans-worth of rainwater.
What’s more, the Rainstore also comes with a pump and kit to connect it to a hose — so there’s no need for a watering can when you water your garden or wash your car.
Kingspan Water has been leading the way in rainwater harvesting systems for many years. Now its superb Rainstore rainwater tank comes with a tap, a diverter kit, a hoselock submersible pump and standard hoselock connection fittings, so all you need to provide is a standard hose.
The Rainstore usually costs £468 but readers can get a 10 per cent discount and pay only £422 (including free delivery) when they visit www.rainwaterharvestingshop.co.uk, or call 0800 0234325, and quote ESRWH1 by 1 July 2012.
We also have one to give away
Email promotions@standard.co.uk with Rainsaver in the subject line. Please be sure to include your full name and contact telephone number.
Terms and conditions
Giveaway: the promotion closes at 23:59 on 27 May 2012. The prize is a Kingspan 700 Litre Rainstore, RRP £468. The winner will be the first entry selected at random after the closing date and will be contacted by 30 May 2012. The prize is non-transferable and there is no cash alternative. When you respond, Evening Standard Ltd may use your information to contact you with offers/services of interest by SMS or email. Promoter: Kingspan. Usual promotion rules apply, see www.homesandproperty.co.uk/rules. For further information, please write to Customer Care, Room 203b, Evening Standard Limited, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London, W8 5TT.
Discount: 10 per cent offer available until 1 July 2012. Subject to availability. Not valid in conjunction with any other promotion or offer. Promoter: Kingspan.
Usual promotion rules
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