question: PUBLISHED:. 12:28 EST, 27 October 2013. |. UPDATED:. 07:29 EST, 28 October 2013. Underwear tycoon Michelle Mone is selling her luxury home complete with furniture, high-tech security, ten plasma TVs and four dishwashers for £1.5million. The self-made businesswoman bought the site, in south Lanarkshire, with husband Michael five years ago. The couple demolished the original building, and built 'Telperion', a five-bedroom home, six times the size of the average British house. Underwear tycoon Michelle Mone is selling her home complete with luxury furniture, high-tech security and four dishwashers. They knocked down the original property and built 'Telperion', a five-bedroom home which is six times the size of the average British house. The home of the tycoon is expected to go on sale for £1.5million. The multi-millionaire businesswoman, 42, bought the site five years ago with her husband Michael, and they knocked down the original property. But their relationship fell apart and following an acrimonious split Mone, 42, has now put the property on the market. It is located in Thorntonhall, a pretty village regarded as one of the most desirable places to live in Scotland. Self-made Mone, whose fortune comes from the Ultimo underwear brand, is selling the home with Savills estate agents for £1.5 million. It is also being offered with all the furniture - estimated to have cost the couple £600,000 - which will be separately negotiated. No love lost: Michelle and Michael had a very public break up after which may be on reason why Miss Mone is keen to sell the furniture as well as the house. The multi-millionaire businesswoman bought the site five years ago with husband Michael. Mone, 42, has put the property on the market after she split with her husband. Self-made Mone, whose fortune comes from the Ultimo underwear brand, is selling the home with Savills estate agents. The home boasts a cinema, decorated in deep red and with leather reclining seats. The property boasts a vestibule and reception room, drawing room, dining room, dining kitchen, family room, cinema and five bedrooms, all with en suite bathrooms. There is a state-of-the-art kitchen designed by the acclaimed Clive Christian and featuring beautifully made Edwardian style units and four dishwashers. Mone once said: 'I don't like seeing dishes lying around. 'When the dishwasher is on, there's more dishes in the sink. 'That is why there's four in here.' The property boasts five bedrooms, all with en suite bathrooms. The home has ten plasma TVs as well as three Onkyo home cinema systems. Savills says the property has 'an extraordinary level of security' with infra-red cameras and sensors in the garden. The triple garage was replaced with a bar and the home has ten plasma TVs as well as three Onkyo home cinema systems. Savills says the property has 'an extraordinary level of security' with infra-red cameras and sensors in the garden. There are also remote control panic buttons and CCTV, which can be monitored by smartphone from anywhere in the world. Mone was originally hoping to get around £1.65 million for the ultimo-te home, ten miles south of Glasgow, but she has dropped her asking price by £150,000 to £1.5million.

answer: Businesswoman bought site, in south Lanarkshire, with husband Michael. Demolished home and built house - six times bigger than British average. Mone, 42, put property on market after acrimonious split with husband.


question: The number of stay-at-home mothers is dropping at a rate of 450 a day and is about to fall below two million for the first time, official figures reveal. The Office for National Statistics said just 2.005million women are full-time mothers, compared to three million in 1993. Many say they have been forced to return to work by rising household bills at a time when their partner’s wages have been frozen, or have hardly increased, for six years. A thing of the past: The image of the house-bound housewife was once ingrained on the national consciousness, such as in this 1963 advert. Nowadays the number of stay-at-home mothers is falling rapidly. Meanwhile more women are employed than ever before, the ONS said, with 67.9 per cent of those aged 16 to 64 in a job. The figures represent an extraordinary social change. When ONS records began in 1971, only half of women worked. Lynne Burnham, of support group Mothers at Home Matter, said: ‘More than 80 per cent of parents recently cited financial difficulties as the main factor in pressurising them or their partner to return to work. ‘Current house prices and the high cost of rent are also factors pushing more stay-at-home parents back into the workplace.’ Family expert Jill Kirby said mothers 'would like to have more time for their families' The way in which the tax system recognises marriage has been the subject of furious debate at Westminster. A long-awaited tax break for married couples, which comes into force next April, will allow a parent to  transfer £1,000 of their personal tax-free income allowance to their spouse. Around 3.4million couples are expected to benefit, but it means a saving of only £200 a year, or £3.85 a week. David Cameron, who has promised a tax break for married couples since 2005, says he would like to make it more  substantial if he is re-elected. Next year, a far more generous perk is being introduced for couples who both work.  Parents will be able to get up to £2,000 per child off annual childcare bills. More than 14million women aged 16 and over have a job, and that number is growing by around 1,800 every day. For many higher earning families, the loss of their child benefit in January last year has added to the pressure on women to go back to work. Around 1.1million parents lost some or all of their eligibility for child benefit when the Government changed the rules. Many mothers opt for self-employment, which allows them to control the hours that they work and to fit them around family life, such as not working during school holidays. One mother on the Netmums website wrote of the emotional torture of working full-time with very young children. She said: ‘I work full-time and my daughter is in full-time  nursery 8am to 6am. Life is chaotic. I feel incredibly guilty. We spend the weekends not enjoying our time off, but trying to catch up on housework. It is not a life. ‘I get seriously stressed and then worn out and ill. It is horrible, isn’t it? But when you need to earn money to live, it is not possible to be at home.’ Jill Kirby, a family expert and the author of The Price of Parenthood, said recently: ‘The pressure continues to increase for mothers to work to support the family finances. Yet we know from so many surveys and studies that mothers would like to have more time for their families. ‘The Government and the Opposition are totally focused on childcare, but nobody stops to question if this is what women really want.’

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More women are employed than ever with two thirds aged 16 to 64 in work. Only half had jobs when Office for National Statistics figures began in 1971. Support group: Many families are struggling to keep up with the bills.