Alan Titchmarsh brands Ground Force co-star Tommy Walsh 'a force of nature' and says their years working together were the 'happiest' of his life in a moving tribute

The Gavin & Stacey actress, 49, will join big names such as Wayne Rooney, Leigh Francis, and Claire Sweeney in the famous camp when the series kicks off on Monday.

For 1 million people on Reddit, the science of clothes-washing is a regular topic of discussion. I tried out their tips and discovered some simple, sustainable answers It started with a sunscreen stain – a yellowed collar on a white T-shirt that persisted wash after wash. A spray of stain remover did nothing; drying the shirt in the sun made it worse. An internet rabbit hole took me to the r/laundry subreddit, where I found my people: 995,000 of them, nerding out over the chemistry of clothes-wa

Some say their plants are fine without fertiliser, but are they just surviving when they could be thriving? The problem Enter a garden centre and you will be overwhelmed by a wall of feeds: liquid concentrates, slow-release, droplet bottles and specialist formulas for every plant going. Many people swear by them, while others say they have never fed their plants and they’re doing just fine. After all, plants in the wild manage perfectly well. So do our houseplants genuinely need feeding, or is i

Ron Howard’s illuminating Netflix documentary looks back on the career of one of America’s most inventive and versatile photographers Richard Avedon had only taken a couple of frames when he accidentally hit his head on a light being held above him. The Dalai Lama burst into laughter. That was when Avedon snapped two more frames and announced: “Oh, I got it!” Avedon’s assistant, Sebastian Kim, was baffled. “I was like, what the hell happened? There’s only four frames out of a roll of 12 frames,”