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• How to live the Good Life without giving up the rat race

  24-09-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Extreme downshifting to escape the modern world can end in disillusion. The solution lies with communities that offer a halfway houseI’m sure that a fair few of us have had “a River Cottage moment” over the years. To wonder, even fleetingly, what it would be like to learn to live off the land; to grow and rear your own food; to become less reliant on buying everything in and have a stab at a much simpler, potentially more satisfying and wholesome existence.But how many of us ca
  
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• Have you got a 'killer' tumble dryer?

  24-09-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Faulty Whirlpool machines continue to pose a fire risk in one of the UK’s biggest product safety scandalsIt is fast becoming one of the UK’s biggest product safety scandals, triggering major campaigns from tabloid newspapers – notably the Sun and Mirror – with front-page warnings of fire risks posed by potentially “killer” tumble dryers to millions of families.With the results of a London Fire Brigade (LFB) investigation due next week into one of the most seri
  
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