4 d. ago Stick the kettle on! Average Briton drinks 62,046 cups of tea in their lifetime

Drinking a cup of tea will only cost us £6,622 if we drink a typical 2.1 cups a day over the an average lifespan of 81 years.

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8 d. ago I’m neediest ‘prempty’ nester, I arrange date nights with son to soak him up before he leaves & use emotional blackmail

SITTING impatiently on the sofa, I wait for the key to turn in the door. It’s 1am and I’m exhausted, but even so I’m determined to wait up to see Ed walk in through the door. Once he’s home I’ll flutter around, making him a snack and a cup of tea and offering to run...

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1 week ago I built £8m Grand Designs castle that fuming locals are calling ‘brutalist’ fortress it was never meant to be pretty

A GRAND Designs homeowner has defended his £8million fortress after angry villagers compared it to a “car park”. When Piers Daniell set out to build his dream home, a six-storey concrete and glass "castle", he knew it wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea. What he didn’t expect was to become public enemy number one in...

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1 week ago Tea and coffee stains will disappear from cups in minutes with 4p cleaning hack

Mrs Hinch has shared a simple and affordable method for removing stubborn tea and coffee stains from mugs and cups - and it requires no scrubbing or bleach

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2 w. ago Professional cleaner uses 1 thing from laundry cupboard to banish tea mug stains

Tea and coffee contain tannin, which gives it its colour. Over time these can accumulate on teacups, mugs and teapots, particularly if they aren't cleaned straight away

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2 w. ago Brits don't get enough 'me time' with of us getting less than an hour

Chores, work and family responsibilities are the top reasons people are always ‘on’ and sometimes a cup of tea and a biscuit is the perfect way to hit reset

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3 w. ago A strange brew: the case of the man behind an audacious Scottish tea fraud

A charismatic, tweed-wearing grower from Perthshire falsely claimed to be able to create thriving tea plantations in Scotland. His elaborate deception took in luxury hotels, media outlets and tea growers across the countryWith its large silver pouch, artistic label and delicate leaves, Dalreoch Scottish white tea might be expected to grace elegant cups with saucers, perhaps with a scone served on the side. Instead, it is nestled with an array of numbered polythene packets in a room just off a laboratory at the University of Aberdeen.This is not an ordinary afternoon tea but evidence in a crime that science helped solve. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The kitchen cupboard staple to ‘plant’ in your garden to fend off slugs and snails this winter

THERE'S a handy trick to treat your garden this Autumn, and it promises to banish slugs, snails, and other pests with tails. The hack costs less than £1 and has been recommended by a horticulture expert as a chemical-free alternative to other repellants. Once you've enjoyed your cup of tea, rather than chucking the bag...

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3 w. ago Average Briton to spend more than £1,300 in six weeks before Christmas, poll finds

More than £440 on presents and £300 on food and drink makes it a pricey festive season for the average person

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3 w. ago Is your favourite chocolate treat really a FAKE? The cult classics that no longer have enough cocoa to count... and those that do

The average Briton consumes 7,560 chocolate bars and 8,316 chocolate biscuits over their lifetime. But what if all that chocolate we're hooked on isn't actually chocolate at all?

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4 w. ago Celebrity Traitors' Kate Garraway addresses her viral 'feud' with Tom Daley

‘Clearly my “flabbergasted” is not his cup of tea,’ Kate said

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last month Clear tea and coffee stains from mugs within minutes using two common ingredients

Removing tea and coffee stains from cups can be tricky, but one cleaning lover has a super simple trick to make it easier.

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last month How to find a lost pension pot in time it takes to make a cup of tea

A new campaign has found it took just over seven minutes on average to track down pensions using a tracing tool.

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