Drying your whites and lighter laundry outside in the sun will help keep them light in colour (Image: Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket/Getty Images) Sign up and receive our free daily stars from Russell Grant SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Other words of advice include not going overboard on the laundry liquid, and fixing shrunken clothes by reshaping them when wet and lying out flat to dry. Related articles Ideal temperature to ‘effectively’ clean bed sheets - ‘kills bacteria’ Mrs Hinch fans share bizarre £1 hack for cleaning silver jewellery Sam, who co-founded a cleaning products firm after spending years making homemade supplies, also believes stain removers aren’t always needed. Instead, a little laundry … [Read more...] about Top laundry tips to help clothes last longer – including putting smelly clothes in freezer
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Short Story: O
A yellow taxi circles the airport; mist over LaGuardia; rumor of improvised explosive device; a bald Nigerian hack listening to incensed propagandists on WOR, his cab merging with the vortex; and behind the Plexiglas, an entrepreneurial American capitalist half his age, iPhone perpetually to her perfect pink ear, hair dark as a tiger’s stripe. “You could cut it with a knife,” she says. Having left a message with her lover, she speaks now to her sister. “That much is definite. The bomb is speculation.” To which big sister petulantly replies, “Everything happens to you.” The younger woman’s lover, in a Houston high-rise, listens to the message she left, thinking—he cannot help himself—that her flight isn’t really delayed but that she no longer loves him, the churning in his gut forcing him to pace the apartment. He ignores the window’s glittering panorama for the blank frame of the smartphone in his trembling hand, daring it to ring, demanding that it ring, although her calls do not … [Read more...] about Short Story: O
Stacey Solomon shares sneak peak of Celebrity Gogglebox filming with fiancé Joe Swash
Stacey Solomon is set to return to Celebrity Gogglebox alongside fiancé Joe Swash . The couple - who will tie the knot in their Essex home later this month - have proven to be a huge hit on the celebrity edition of the hit Channel 4 series. Taking to social media yesterday (July 4), Stacey gave fans a glimpse into the show's upcoming episode, as she filmed in her living room. In the clip, 40-year-old Joe was seen sitting on the sofa alongside Stacey's dad Dave, who was looking after the couple's children. The Loose Women star, 32, went on to film the pair before displaying huge black out windows behind her dad. Stacey Solomon has given fans a glimpse into filming Celebrity Gogglebox The pair were joined by Stacey's dad Dave as they filmed Alongside the clip, Stacey wrote: "Now we are filming Gogglebox, they black it all out because it's too bright outside. "Grandad is on pickle watch but right now he's just eating our snacks." The Channel 4 show - … [Read more...] about Stacey Solomon shares sneak peak of Celebrity Gogglebox filming with fiancé Joe Swash
The World Is a Thriving Slaughterhouse
H ere, lying in a stained carton, are notes on a refugee camp in Tanzania, where surviving Tutsis and their Hutu enemies lived side by side in blue tarp tents. It is 1994. The notes record that there are people everywhere, milling and moving in short parades on the main path in the camp, hastily constructed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Women wear colorful cloths, khangas , and carry yellow plastic containers of water on their heads. Children and old men push up against one another, as if at a bargain sale. They hold portable radios to their ears. A man in a brown rain hat drags a reluctant goat by a rope. White smoke mixes with the smells of fresh earth and excrement. At an outdoor butcher shop, a cow’s bloodied horn lies beside the animal’s astonished head. I greet a group of young Hutus in French. “Did you participate in the killings?,” I ask. “We did nothing,” one says. “Did you see others do the killing?” He says, “We saw nothing.” I ask, “How many … [Read more...] about The World Is a Thriving Slaughterhouse
Man ‘forced to work without pay’ for 13 years
Published 16 September 2014 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing A father and son forced a vulnerable man to work unpaid at their farm every day for 13 years, a court has heard. Darrell Simester, 44, had to work 15-hour-days living in squalid conditions at Cariad Farm at Peterstone near Newport, heard a jury. His family struggled to recognise him when they tracked him down in a "horrific state" with a chest infection, a hernia and calloused feet. The trial at Cardiff Crown Court is expected to last up to six weeks. Daniel Doran, 67, and 42-year-old David Daniel Doran deny charges of requiring Mr Simester to perform forced or compulsory labour between 2010 and 2013. The family of Mr Simester, from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, had not known of his whereabouts since 2000. 'Under menace' John Hipkin, prosecuting, said when Mr Simester was eventually tracked … [Read more...] about Man ‘forced to work without pay’ for 13 years