Woman's no-shopping year pledge

Shopping was formerly a major part of Christine Bone's life

A Bath woman is about to embark on her second year without shopping, to help the environment.

Christine Bone, a Bath University student, has joined a US-based movement which shuns all shopping for anything new for a specific period of time.

Adherents borrow, barter or buy second- hand but pledge to buy only new goods like food, toiletries and medicines.

"My husband and I made a bet with each other of £100 that we couldn't keep the compact, but we both did," she said.

She added: "I loved shopping and it was a big part of my life.

"But the course I am doing about business, community and sustainability really made me want to go beyond recycling and re-using to actually reduce what I buy in the first place."