How to clean your microwave with ZERO cleaning products: Mum-of-two shares her simple trick

A mum-of-two has revealed how to clean your microwave without any cleaning products, and you only need a few items you can find in your kitchen. Carolina McCauley, from Perth, said you’ll need to get your hands on some dish soap, water, lemon juice and a sponge – and your microwave will be spotless in … Read more

Mum reveals how to clean dirty and smelly lunchboxes with ease before term two kicks off 

A mum-of-four has revealed how to get your kids’ lunchboxes to look and smell brand new before the beginning of term two.  Creative home stylist, Liz Amaya, from Brisbane, shared a video on Instagram of her lunchbox cleaning method as her kids’ finished school for term one. The busy mum sprinkles the lunchboxes with bicarb … Read more

Mum reveals how to clean dirty lunchboxes with ease – and you don’t need any nasty chemicals

A mum-of-four has revealed how to get your kids’ lunchboxes to look and smell brand new before the beginning of term two.  Creative home stylist, Liz Amaya, from Brisbane, Australia, shared a video on Instagram of her lunchbox cleaning method on Instagram as her kids’ finished school for term one. The busy mum sprinkles the … Read more

Stacey Solomon gives her Wendy house a spring clean at her new Essex pad

She moved into a sprawling rural pad in Essex earlier this month, which she has nicknamed ‘Pickle Cottage’.   And Stacey Solomon has been putting her tidying skills to good use as she documented herself giving her new ‘forever’ home’s wendy house a spring clean.  The TV presenter, 31, boasts a Tudor-style playhouse at her new … Read more

Fly-tippers made to clean up rubbish they dumped on the M6 in Staffordshire

Fly-tippers caught dumping rubbish on M6 motorway are escorted five miles back to waste by police and forced to pick it up Fly-tippers dumped piles of rubbish next to an emergency refuse bay on the M6  Police pursued the car after Highways England caught them fly-tipping on CCTV Officers stopped three men in Staffordshire and … Read more

Boris Johnson plans chewing gum tax to raise more than £100m to clean Britain’s streets

Boris Johnson plans chewing gum tax to raise more than £100m to clean Britain’s streets of ‘monstrous acne of sticky grey blotches’ Boris Johnson is set to propose new tax targeting chewing gum manufacturers Aims to raise more than £100million to pay cost of clearing away discarded gum Manufacturers to be hit by the tax unless … Read more

Boris Johnson plans chewing gum tax to raise more than £100m to clean Britain’s streets

Boris Johnson plans chewing gum tax to raise more than £100m to clean Britain’s streets of ‘monstrous acne of sticky grey blotches’ Boris Johnson is set to propose new tax targeting chewing gum manufacturers Aims to raise more than £100million to pay cost of clearing away discarded gum Manufacturers to be hit by the tax unless … Read more

Plague of plastic marring Hackney Marshes beauty spot shows why Britain needs a spring clean 

The reality of plastic pollution was horrifically clear when this river overflowed. Trees and bushes along its banks were draped with ragged blue plastic bags. The pollution is tainting a pocket of nature in east London, a haven where kingfishers can be seen darting into the water, bream come to spawn and black poplars, Britain’s … Read more

The dirtiest items in the kitchen that you FORGET to clean and easy ways to make them pristine again

Many proud homeowners are meticulous with their cleaning – but there are still some items that even the most diligent forget about.  Cleaning expert Joyce French from British advice website Home How has revealed the dirtiest household utensils that we often neglect.  These include salt and pepper shakers, tin openers – which should be washed … Read more

The perfect pick-me-up for a nation in lockdown! Great British Spring Clean 2021 launches

The perfect pick-me-up for a nation in lockdown! Great British Spring Clean 2021 launches… with calls for our loyal army of readers to help make Britain cleaner and greener The Great British Spring Clean 2021 officially launched yesterday Annual litter-pick, organised by Keep Britain Tidy, runs from May 28 to June 13   Environment minister Rebecca … Read more