Putting her house on winning

Manchester architect Lisa Raynes is putting her own home, replete with proud mezuzah, on the line as a contestant on the ITV finale of "May The Best House Win" on December 23.

The mother-of-three, whose children attend North Cheshire Jewish Primary, said she was "petrified by how I'll come across."

The style certainly sounds like a winning theme, described by Ms Raynes as "Chorlton boho eclectic"- transforming her terrace house from bedsits with "needles in the gulley out back" to a family home, "flooded with light."