This simple change to your bedtime routine could help you sleep through tonight’s heatwave – and keep your room cooler

Pale blue and white bedroom with an upholstered linen bed and wicker hamper on an ottoman at the foot of the bed.

With 30-degree heat making it much harder to get a restful slumber, we're all keen to do everything we can to make sleeping as comfortable as possible. Be that keeping the best cooling fans on at all times, trying viral hacks to cool our bedrooms, sleeping without the covers, and keeping our blinds or curtains closed during the most intense heat of the day.

But there are a few ways in which we may be unknowingly increasing the heat in our bedrooms during this heatwave too – and one of them involves the screens and digital devices that can often dominate our sacred sleeping space.