For months after buying her "dream home", Elizabeth Earle was freezing cold, had no shower and was forced to use a bucket instead of a toilet. But she was willing to make sacrifices for a different ...

A 27-year-old firefighter opted to purchase and renovate a 49ft formerly sunken narrowboat for £15,000 instead of contending with the 'mad' housing market. El Sutcliffe, based in Burton-on-Trent, East ...