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Pyrex National Baking Week will take place from October 13-19, celebrating 'all that is great about sharing some homemade family time' through baking.

The final of 'The Great British Bake Off' is tonight and the nation has once again embraced baking, with Waitrose revealing sales of baking ingredients soaring since the start of the fifth season.

For over a decade, consumer magazine 'House Beautiful' has been rewarding excellence in the homes and interiors market in its annual awards programme - and this year's shortlist includes a plethora of housewares retailers and suppliers.

Home improvement industry charity The Rainy Day Trust has launched a free telephone helpline. The new service goes live this month and includes debt advice, counselling and legal advice.

Autumn sees the launch of a collaboration between housewares supplier Charterhouse Cookware and the Foodworks Cookery School.

DKB Household UK has signed an agreement to be the sole distributor of French housewares brand Les Artistes' range of cups in the UK.

Cookbooks make up half of the entries in 'The Mail on Sunday's' list of the 10 top best-selling non-fiction hardbacks in the UK.

Housewares distributor Spearmark International is the latest licensee to snap new design property It's a Wild Life.

South-west housewares chain Kitchens is hosting a cake off competition at its Bath branch on Saturday (October 11), as part of the Great Bath Feast & National Cake Week and in support of Dorothy House Hospice.

Independent housewares retailer UK Cookshop is opening a second branch, in the West Sussex town of Burgess Hill, on Saturday (October 11).