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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE I don’t know about you, but I’m still recovering from the dramas of Strictly Movie Week – particularly that bizarre early 10 from Shirley Ballas. Will Eddie Kadi nab another 10 in Week 4? He’s doing an American smooth to Sex Bomb, so … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE It was a seriously dramatic Movie Week on Saturday night, with plenty of award-worthy performances and a few flops – plus head judge Shirley Ballas shocking everyone by awarding the series’ first 10 to Eddie Kadi’s freestyle Men in Black number. I reckon … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Are the celebrities ready for their close-up? Let’s hope so: it’s Strictly Movie Week! The first of this season’s regular theme weeks, it’s an extra excuse for the wardrobe department to pull out all the stops – either fuelling or overwhelming the actual … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Which celebrity will fill that ignominious role of first boot from the ballroom in 2023? Last year it was Loose Women presenter Kaye Adams (who frankly seemed relieved). Looking at the leaderboard after Saturday’s show, it could well be Nikita Kanda and Les … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Lupin, series 3, review: old-fashioned fun with Bond thrills and Gallic charm (and bad wigs) . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE It was not a tremendous start for Martin Johnson and co in Grand Slammers, ITV1’s documentary in which members of the 2003 Rugby World Cup-winning squad reunite to assemble a rugby team inside HMP The Mount in Hertfordshire. “Hello, mate. You interested in … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Boys, which has delayed its fourth season owing to the Hollywood writers’ strike, is savagely satirical. Its most famous character, Homelander, is essentially a gonzo cross between Superman, Donald Trump and Hitler. Gen V is nowhere near as ferocious. But there are … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE *spoilers below* The showstopper challenge was to make a cake in the shape of an animal; for Bake Off aficionados, this summoned fond memories of Cecil the Bread Lion in series six. Only Amos chose an animal that could kill you – an … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Documentaries are all about how they are edited. “If anybody in this documentary, who you interview, says that Barry George did it, I think they need to see somebody… get help,” says Jill Dando’s former agent, Jon Roseman, in Netflix’s absorbing three-part reinvestigation … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE On 3 December 2006, Mark Blanco, 30, fell from the balcony of a flat in east London. The flat was known to police as a crack den frequented by the then-vastly famous rock star Pete Doherty, who on CCTV was seen, like others, … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE What to do with a Strictly winner? It’s an an age old question that has vexed the BBC over the years, often failing to capitalise on the surprise popularity of the winner of the coveted Glitterball. How else did Bill Bailey get stuck … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Strictly Come Dancing 2023 week one: Golden oldies know how to get the party started . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Let’s face the music and dance! Last week, we saw our new celebrities paired with their pro partners; tonight, the competition begins in earnest. Each contestant is performing either a ballroom or a Latin dance – we’ve got plenty of cha cha chas, … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Apple TV has become the unofficial home of the thinking person’s sci-fi epic, courtesy of shows such as Foundation and Silo. But the streamer has also emerged as a production line for quietly affecting sitcoms which cast a wry eye at contemporary life. … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE There is always one Race Across the World contestant who struggles with the concept of budget travel. In Celebrity Race Across the World (BBC One), that person is the All Saints singer Melanie Blatt. In her pop-star days, she said cheerfully, she would … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Chris Packham cares about the environment. That fact is undeniable, whether you love him or hate him. Actually, if you hate him, you probably didn’t watch Chris Packham: Is It Time to Break the Law? (Channel 4). It was aimed wholly at people … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Mel Gibson’s biggest success was directing a gory retelling of the Crucifixion in The Passion of the Christ. So it’s fitting that Gibson should himself be subject to a bloody resurrection as one of the stars of The Continental: From The World of … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE It functions well as a history documentary because, as British Vogue editor Edward Enninful points out, these days models are booked based on their Instagram follower count. Back then, models came up the traditional way, doing catalogue shoots and entering competitions. Before the … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Tina Turner, Dairylea Lunchables, RuPaul’s Drag Race, a Shetland pony. Dolmio sauce, a protractor, Abraham Lincoln, Alison Hammond. This is Picture Slam, a new Saturday teatime quiz, for which the four answers would be: BBC One, shiny studio, Alan Carr, just-killing-time-until-Strictly-comes-on. Whoever commissioned … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE 16 September 2023 • 6:20pm 6:20PM The professionals are ready Can Jowita Pryzstal repeat that astonishing success from her debut year? She certainly has both the talent and the determination. But the rest of Strictly’s returning pros will be eager to get their … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Record numbers of children have been missing from school since the pandemic, according to Helping Our Teens (BBC Two). The attendance officer at Beacon Hill Academy in the Midlands explained why: “Young people have got used to being at home. Parents have got … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Then Cara, the other woman (played by Ashley Benson), bumps into them on the trip. What are the chances? The stage is set for a murder, which comes with an episode three twist so obvious that a toddler could see it coming. It’s … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE But the writers wimped out in the middle of series two by killing off Mitch. With that, the show’s dramatic engine puttered out. And so for series three, we’re left with a monotonous workplace drama with no decent storylines. Abortion rights in Texas, … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Other Black Girl, review: a messily inconsistent take on racist workplace culture . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE New dating show My Mum, Your Dad (ITV1) arrives on screen billed as the “middle-aged Love Island”. Cause for alarm. Will we get a bunch of 50-somethings with ice-white teeth and those up-the-bum bikinis? Or will they spend their time in the villa … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Incredible hypocrisy by Boris Johnson.” “Baroness Hale’s behaviour was disgraceful.” “There are many words I’d use to describe what Michael Gove did. Betrayal. Deceitful.” Plenty of the salty old tunes came out again in Laura Kuenssberg: State of Chaos (BBC One) as a … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The old guard are joined by marquee signing Mischa Barton, former star of The O.C., cannily cast to add international appeal. As a mysterious American stranger staying at Lassiter’s hotel, she’s a Dynasty-style femme fatale. Shaggy rescue dog Trevor proves a scene-stealer in … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The winner of Channel 4’s survival series, Alone, lasted 34 days in the wilderness. Well done to him, but for the viewer it felt like 34 years. The show involved 11 people being deposited at separate points in Canada’s Northwest Territories, with no … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE One of the unwritten rules of popular sitcoms is that things stay the same. Everyone wanted Joey from Friends to just keep on saying “How you doin’?” and not move away from the others to try his luck in Hollywood (and so the … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Lovers review: old-school romantics will fall head over heels for this Belfast romcom . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Top Boy, series 5 review: a fittingly brilliant – and bloody – goodbye . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Question. How many Geordies does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: 50. One to change the lightbulb, 49 to tell you (in a Geordie accent) “how great the people are!” Geordie Hospital (Channel 4) is back and as ever its mission is … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In 1941 many Ukrainian nationalists welcomed the Wehrmacht as liberators. There they are in the archive footage, cheering the Panzers’ arrival. As Ukraine suffers another invasion, there was plenty of complexity and nuance to get through in Ukraine: Holocaust Ground Zero (Channel 4). … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Dramatists can’t go too far wrong with a disputed inheritance. When wealth passes from one generation to the next, and there’s some sort of hitch, you’ve got yourself a plot. The Inheritance (Channel 5) goes out to bat on a good wicket, with … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE There’s been a change at that hinge hour in weekend current-affairs broadcasting. Sophy Ridge has migrated away from her regular berth and branched out to weekdays, to be replaced by her holiday cover. Hence Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips (Sky News): out with … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE ‘I didn’t expect to come to a sex party and leave thinking about my relationship with my mum,” sighed 26-year-old Yewande Biala, half way through Secrets of the Female Orgasm (Channel 4), a tender documentary about female sexual pleasure. But, raised in a … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Prisons, like schools and hospitals, make good settings for drama because they gather disparate characters into one place and trap them there. But prison dramas add an extra level of mystery because most of us, Deo volente, never see inside a real one, … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE ‘I’m going to have no space soon,” said David Hockney, 86, to Melvyn Bragg, 83. Space, for artists, tends to mean the place where they show their work. But that wasn’t the sort of space Hockney was referring to. “I’m going to die,” … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The first thing to say about The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies (BBC One) is that it’s unusual. That title for starters. Shows with titles that go on forever are already testing an audience’s patience, and must be damn sure … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Tower (ITV1) returned for a second series but since its debut run, seemed to have mislaid all its main selling points. When it arrived in 2021, this police procedural was characterised by the orange anorak worn by lead detective Sarah Collins (Gemma … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Who needs Barbie when we’ve got Cindy? In a summer of blockbuster blondes, villainess Cindy Beale made her Albert Square comeback after 25 years away. EastEnders (BBC One) was a camp, compelling Bank Holiday treat. Cue fireworks, face-slaps and a shot in the … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Kilkinure, boasts the roly-poly sergeant (Simon Delaney), “is a very boring town. I’m proud of that. It’s my job to make sure things don’t get interesting.” Not many writers can make this forthright blend of Grand Guignol and quipping levity come off. Shakespeare? … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The world of Midsomer Murders (ITV1) never gets less fanciful. This episode’s crime scene involved mysticism, sorcery, tarot readings and other manifestations of the hocus pocus industry. Meanwhile, on the undercard was a subplot about great crested newts, beavers and – oh hello … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Director Fred Scott’s excellent film about the London Bridge terror attack on 29 November 2019 was laced with bitter ironies. First among them was that two of the three men who tackled and stopped Usman Khan, after he had killed Saskia Jones and … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE There are hurdles in life, there are hurdles in sport, and then there’s choosing to have your leg amputated seven months before competing in the Commonwealth Games. Luckily Alice Tai, a paralympic swimmer, has spent most of her 24 years overcoming hurdles with … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE There are many things that didn’t make sense about the second season of And Just Like That… (Sky Comedy). Carrie’s aversion to saying the word vagina, despite the fact she earned millions writing columns, then books, about sex. How Miranda went from the … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Ahsoka represents an unashamed bid for the hearts and minds of hardcore fans. As with the titular character, General Thrawn is a big box-office draw in the Star Wars universe. Portrayed by Lars Mikkelsen, he’s kept intriguingly off-screen in the first two instalments. … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Shelter opens with Mickey watching his father die in a car crash. He is promptly whisked from LA to small-town New Jersey, where he is put in the care of his slacker Gen X aunt, Shira (Constance Zimmer). He also makes a girlfriend … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE There is a love interest for the redoubtable Lady Denham (Anne Reid, marvellous as ever) in the shape of an old flame, played by James Bolam. Meanwhile, Georgiana Lambe – the West Indian heiress who was Austen’s first black character – is the … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A recent Telegraph feature explored the idea of “eating like it’s the 1970s”. In this instance, it was a sensible consideration on the virtues of smaller portion sizes (as opposed to ‘“portion distortion”), and featured a fillet of salmon accompanied by two lettuce … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Henpocalypse! review: Strippers, bridezillas, Armageddon… hurrah for Britain's bawdiest new comedy . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Everyone loves a ghost story. In the late 1990s, a farmhouse in North Wales gained notoriety as one of the most haunted houses in Britain. English couple Dr David Gower and his wife Rose-Mary moved into Penyffordd Farm in 1997. Soon they were … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE What makes a good documentary? Access to the subject. Compelling characters. A window into a closed-off world. Court Martial: Soldiers Behind Bars has all of this in spades, and shows how far Channel 5 has raised its game in recent years. The setting … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “It’s all the drama, Mick, I just love it!” When the definitive list is written of TV’s great comedy characters, Alison Steadman in Gavin & Stacey has to feature. She and Larry Lamb played Gavin’s parents, Pam and Mick Shipman, and they were … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Andrea Constand was a young employee of Temple University in Philadelphia when she met Bill Cosby. She had every reason to trust him: he was on the institution’s board and one of its most generous benefactors. More than that, he was the beloved … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Painkiller is framed as a testimony by Edie Flowers, a prosecutor who led the fight against Purdue. Flowers is fictional – unlike the equivalent character in Dopesick, Rick Mountcastle (Peter Sarsgaard). She is played with impressive forthrightness by Orange Is the New Black’s … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Oh no, she’s about to talk to the camera again.” This thought will likely go through your head many times when watching Nicola Walker in Annika, which started life as a Radio 4 drama set in Norway and then became a Scotland-set television … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Billions (Sky Atlantic/Paramount+) is back for a seventh and final series. It is not so much a grand farewell as a discreet truck to the glue factory. Having left after series five to spend more time with his family – his wife, Helen McCrory, … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Remarkable Places to Eat used to be a series on the BBC, in which Fred Sirieix accompanied chefs to their favourite restaurants around the world. The chef bit was the programme’s USP: if Angela Hartnett (Venice) or Michel Roux Jr (Paris) say these … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Docusoaps can entertain even when the subject matter is mundane. One of the first reality stars in this country was Maureen Rees from Driving School, which was not a show exactly filled with thrills. A couple of years ago, Channel 4 had a … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Billions (Sky Atlantic/Paramount+) is back for a seventh and final series. It is not so much a grand farewell as a discreet truck to the glue factory. Having left after series five to spend more time with his family – his wife, Helen McCrory, … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE At the risk of upsetting any readers who live there, the Bishops Avenue in London is the most overrated address in Britain. It’s lined with hideous houses that could just as easily be in Texas or Kazakhstan. The road straddles the A1. The … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Stranding people in the wilderness is not a new concept for reality shows. Ben Fogle and co did it in Castaway. There was a great Sunday lunchtime hangover show called Shipwrecked, in the early 2000s. The BBC is about to bring back Survivor, … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Strictly Come Dancing 2023 line-up: the celebrity contestants so far . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Will we ever be able to look Gregg Wallace in the eye again without thinking of human meat? The presenter was last seen in Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat, a mockumentary in which he sampled steaks made from cash-strapped NHS workers and … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Anton Du Beke has always been a consummate performer – not just on the dancefloor, but in all his public appearances. I remember sitting in the studio audience during an early series of Strictly Come Dancing, and while the other professional dancers gave … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Idris Elba saves the day in the finale of Hijack. I don’t think this needs a ‘spoiler alert’ because, really, were you expecting anything else? The ending was signposted from the moment Idris Elba strolled onto flight KA29 in episode one. His character, … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Pipework needed to be routed from the couple’s garage through the loft. All the radiators had to be upgraded. A team of six workers would take more than a week to complete it. Some homes will need extra insulation, and perhaps double glazing, … Read more
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