A Couple’s Roof Leaked After Solar Panels Were Installed, Forcing Them To Catch Rainwater In A Wheelie Bin

A couple has been forced to collect rainwater in a wheelie bin after their roof started to leak following a solar panel installation.

Lauren MacLennan, 28, and Fraser Tracey, 26, from Port Glasgow, had signed up for a government-backed home energy improvement scheme, which involved replacing insulation, re-rendering the building and installing solar panels.

But they argued that after the solar panel installation, carried out by energy improvement firm Everwarm, they were left with a major leak in their bedroom.

The company meanwhile say they’re confident they were not at fault and were working on a resolution.

The couple, who moved into their dream home in 2021 after saving up for years, have now spent £100 on bins, buckets and tarpaulin to contain the leak.

Ms MacLennan said that it’s just a nightmare.

She said that they’d saved up for years to buy their own house and they don’t have the money to get a brand new roof.

‘We’ve been waiting at least two months and they promised us that they’d fixed the issues.’

Mr Tracey added that they did the work in the middle of the summer, so they were not going to notice that there were any issues until they got heavy rain.

‘The damage is under the panels, from what I can tell, where it’s leaking in.

‘We are under no illusion that it isn’t an old roof, but it wasn’t leaking before they carried out work on it, or at least not to the extent where it was pouring through the roof. It was never like that.

‘We would have got the roof seen to but with the way everything is at the moment we can’t spend that money.

‘If they said to us ‘sorry, we can’t put them [the solar panels] up, the roof isn’t fit for purpose’, we would’ve been fine with that.’

The couple have since been living with the bedroom leak, and dealing with it by catching water in a wheelie bin and laying tarpaulin to try and prevent damage.

Ms MacLennan, who works as a home carer, said that they were gutted by it. She said that she’s been stressed out and missing days of work.

A spokesperson for Everwarm said that the company was aware of the issues with the Port Glasgow property and was confident that they were not the result of their improvement work.

None of these green ideas appear to be working very well. Heat pumps, solar panels, cars, stay away from them all.

Everwarm should just send somebody to take a look at what has happened. Not from the ground because a lot of roofs are not designed to take the weight of solar panels, but then it’s all about money, they don’t care what happens after and never want to take responsibility.

All installation companies should survey the roof before installation to see if it’s fit for purpose.

Whoever did the quote and inspected the property should have told them that their roof wasn’t safe enough for it and that it couldn’t be done, after all, they’re the experts allegedly.

I reviewed Everwarm online on Trustpilot and they don’t have the most glowing feedback at all. There were hundreds of complaints from people who were far from happy with their service and installation.

One person said that they were a joke of a service. That they were 1.5 years into a job that they were told would only take about 6 weeks and they were still waiting for it to be finished.

Another said they were an absolute joke of a company. That they had their heating replaced and Everwarm’s reputation of having no care for people’s properties was upheld. They left damaged walls, ceilings and carpets. Their workmanship was extremely poor.

Their inspection couldn’t see any issues so they were left to deal with the aftermath and had to put the damage right themselves. The attitude of their office staff was disgusting – they didn’t pass on messages. Spoke to their customers like they were dirt, and said that anyone considering using Everwarm, should do themselves a favour and go elsewhere.

The comments go on and on, but I would be here forever telling you about them, but the bottom line is, NEVER use this company.

Flags Are Set On Fire And Chants Of ‘Allahu Akbar’ Are Heard In NYC’s Washington Square Park

A pro-Palestinian protester was filmed burning the Israeli flag as demonstrators from both sides of the Middle East conflict descended on New York City’s Washington Square Park Wednesday evening.

The demonstrations came after a blast at a hospital in Gaza that Hamas claims killed at least 500 people.

The attack sparked worldwide anger, with Palestine blaming Israel and Israeli officials saying it was a misfired rocket from inside Gaza.

Demonstrations erupted across the Middle East over the attack. The US was no different with Israel and Palestine supporters both heading to Washington Square Park.

A video from the event shows several Palestine supporters chanting ‘Allahu Akbar!’ as they burned the Jewish state’s Star of David flag. One protester wearing red added: ‘Come take this st! Fk Israel!’

Reports have suggested there were hundreds of pro-Palestine marchers and dozens of pro-Israel protesters at the park.

The leaders of the pro-Palestine faction were from the NYU Students for Justice in Palestine. Along with other campus organisations. They were marching to criticise the university’s president for denouncing the Hamas attack.

The accused NYU President Linda Mills of ‘erasure’ of Palestine in her comments on the shock Hamas attacks that have killed 1,400.

‘In her recent statement, President [Linda] Mills makes the decision to continue this trend of dismissal and blatant erasure of the experiences of Palestinians, both at NYU and in Palestine,’ the student group wrote.

‘The statement makes no mention of the excessive violence against Palestinians in the last few days, despite 413 Palestinians having been murdered in Gaza within the past 48 hours. It is framed to portray an untrue and misrepresentative picture where ‘terrorist attacks’ were only occurring against Israeli citizens.’

According to NBC New York, the huge crowd finally came face to face with the pro-Israel supporters. Aside from the flag burning, the event seemed peaceful but the NYPD attempted to create separation between the groups.

According to CBS New York, the NYPD Intel Division said it was monitoring social media postings for any potential threats.

‘You bombed a hospital! You bombed a hospital!’ chanted some of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators, the New York Post reported.

‘Bring them home! Terrorists! Terrorists! Terrorists!’ responded pro-Israel marchers, in reference to the many hostages taken by Hamas after the initial attack.

Some marchers held signs demanding the US cut funding to Israel, while another held a sign to remember Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old from Illinois stabbed by a man thought to be influenced by coverage of the attacks this past weekend.

Perhaps they should go and become freedom fighters over in Gaza if they feel that passionate about what’s going on. Radicals are not needed in the US or any other country.

Sadly, baby boomer Democrats had a lot of venomous political rhetoric, but for most, it’s a game to them. The problem is they then passed it on to their children who now take it seriously, and hate has a home everywhere.

War has been with us since the dawn of time and sadly it will never end.

A 13-Year-Old British Girl Missing In Israel Following A Hamas Attack Has Been Killed; Her Sister And Father Remain Unaccounted For

A 13-year-old British girl who went missing after Hamas terrorists launched their vicious attack on Israel has been murdered, her heartbroken family have revealed.

Yahel, 13, disappeared after the terrorists attacked Be’eri Kibbutz and killed her British mother Lianne, who was born in Bristol.

Her family have now confirmed that the teenager was also killed in the invasion, reports the BBC. Yahel’s older sister Noiya, 16, and their Israeli father Eli are still missing.

The teenagers hadn’t been heard from since black-clad gunmen, wielding attack rifles and hand grenades went door to door of their small kibbutz looking for Israeli families to kill or kidnap in their brutal attack on October 7.

Yahel and Noiya’s heartbroken uncles told a newspaper outlet that they weren’t eating or sleeping since they reported the girls missing and were determined to do everything they could to bring them back to safety.

However, Yahel’s grief-stricken family, still reeling from the murder of her mother Lianne, confirmed the 13-year-old had been killed by the terrorists.

Her sister Noiya and father Eli, 51, remain missing whilst their uncle Yossi, 53, was kidnapped and taken to Gaza.

It was only yesterday that the family confirmed that the girls’ mother Lianne, 48, was killed in her home in last weekend’s attack.

The girl’s uncles, Raz Matalon and Sharon Sharabi, said they’d received a series of panicked messages from Lianne on October 7 who told them she heard gunshots outside their home.

They told a newspaper outlet that she wrote that she heard gunshots outside her home. People were screaming and calling in Arabic and people running all over.

‘So they stayed in the safe room until they heard the terrorists had entered the house and tried to open the door.’

It was at this point all contact between Lianne and her family ended, leaving her family waiting in vain for any news of their loved ones.

The uncles said it wasn’t until three days later that Israeli soldiers were able to enter Eli and Lianne’s home, where they saw bullets embedded in the walls of the bomb shelter in the children’s room.

‘There were too big blood stains on the floor,’ Matalon and Sharabi said. ‘They saw the dog lying there dead.’

The family have now confirmed that Yahel, 13, and her mother Lianne were killed by the terrorists.

Yet people are still waving banners and celebrating these atrocities – some people are just pure evil and it just proves that there is evil that lives amongst us.

They really are a disgrace to our humanity and if there is a God, where is he?

It doesn’t matter what’s going on and how long it’s been going on this war. The moment they started this sick attack on innocent children all their arguments became invalid. They say there are two sides to this war but there isn’t. There’s only one side and that’s the side that doesn’t slaughter innocent children and glorifying vengeance is just a portrayal of insanity and this is just a waste of innocent lives that have been lost.

And where is this God we all talk of, or whatever you might want to call him? Where is this mythical man in the sky who always wants money?

There’s a deluge of hostility and rage, but brutality is never the answer, but we are all barbarians whether we like to admit it or not!

For goodness sake, all these children are special irrespective of where they’re from, and they’re the children of our future. If they’re all killed off, there will be no future.

‘Sugar Rush’ Of Tax Cuts Before Election Fuels Recession Fears

A leading think tank has warned that the Government is in a ‘terrible bind’ – whoever wins the next election.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says weak economic growth and stubbornly high inflation leave ‘no room’ for unfunded tax cuts or spending increases any time soon.

One problem is the amount the government is shelling out on interest payments on the nation’s debt mountain, which stands at almost £2.6 trillion at the end of August.

The IFS’s sobering assessment comes as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt prepares to announce his Autumn Statement next month. It warned unfunded tax cuts ahead of the next election could create a ‘short-term economic sugar rush’.

But this risked fuelling the chances of a recession if the Bank of England has to hike interest rates further to control inflation, the IFS said. It added that the Chancellor is in a terrible bind, as will be whoever is Chancellor after the general election.

Publishing its Green Budget, the IFS said that on one hand, the amount the Treasury is collecting in taxes has reached a record high, with government borrowing below the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast in March. But it warned the government’s debt interest spending was on track to reach the highest level since the 1980s, and around £30 billion above levels the country is used to.

“That’s £30 billion each year that can’t be put to better use,” it said. While the nation’s debt is expected to rise, the economy is forecast to be stuck with feeble growth. That, in turn, is set to curtail government spending plans.

“With commitments on health, defence and childcare, among others, this would imply cuts to most public service spending,” the IFS said. Today’s report was produced in association with the bank Citi, which forecast the UK would experience a “moderate” recession in the first half of next year.

Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, said the country was in a ‘horrible fiscal bind’. He added that the price of our high levels of indebtedness, failure to stimulate growth, and high borrowing costs was likely to be a protracted period of high taxes and tight spending’.

It seems like the Tories are toast, but then I wouldn’t eat it as it would probably be stale. The kind you just toss in the bin.

It’s quite straightforward actually, the Tories are absolutely useless at handling our economy, and their unfettered capitalism model has no limitations and they will always fail. Labour would be no better because the Tories have been in power for far too long and have destroyed our economy to the point of no return.

The Tories have given tax cuts just before elections since the dawn of time, then they whack them back up again after they get back in.

They pledge tax cuts in our land of milk and honey just so they can get another five more years, then it’s the normal tax for the rich and additional tax for the poor.

‘The country is in a terrible fiscal bind’ – yes, it is but still the rich continue to get richer.

The Tories are obsessed with tax cuts, but in fact, they only benefit the rich. What is usually 1 or 2p in the pound means hardly anything on an average wage.

Pretty little lies are what we will see from the Tories in the run-up to the next General Election, and then a whole load of people will ignore the last 13 years plus of Tory economic mismanagement, greed, nepotism, and corruption and vote Tory because they like the sound of the pretty lies.

THE STARMER JUST HAS TO BE STAMPED ON

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is like a used car salesman who just sells soap.

He’s not the most interesting person and he’s certainly lacking in imagination.

The thing is, we don’t need a car salesman if he’s just going to sell us soap.

He doesn’t have to be the world’s finest speaker, but he does require vision, and that’s something he’s not got at the moment. If he was going to get into power, the only thing that he would do is put a sticking plaster on the problems that we have.

Labour will then fail us and we the people will have to deal with the despair and desperation that will face us.

The Labour Party has been stuck in the shadows for an extremely long time now. It did once resemble an effective party, but I hardly think that Sir Keir Starmer will save our country.

Sir Keir Starmer talks a lot about the need for change, but we don’t want politicians talking about it because actions mean more than just words.

He might look extremely nice in his tailor-made suits and his affluent North London home, however, that’s not enough to make Great Britain a better place.

Of course, he can be ruthless, but like so many other MPs he can also be dishonest and he definitely doesn’t communicate with any verve and he lacks any political vision.

Outside of politics, he is personable, gregarious and has a wry sense of humour.

The thing is, all that Sir Keir Starmer can deliver is Band-Aid politics and nothing more.

What we need is someone with a vision, not a yes man, but somebody who can deliver what they say they can deliver.

There are numerous reasons why Sir Keir Starmer should be feared though. He has no principles and he tells the people whatever he believes they want to hear. He condemns others for his own failures and he’s in favour of clamping down on free speech and he has a habit of U-turning on his policies.

Sir Keir Starmer has repeatedly come under attack for abandoning not just many of the policies that were part of their last manifesto, but also for his personal promises as well. He might be a bit of a fibber, but is he a conman?

Of course, we know there’s no magic money tree, but they also like to spend the taxpayers’ money willy-nilly and increase taxes as and when they see fit.

At present nobody actually knows what Sir Keir Starmer really stands for, but over the months Labour has embraced a host of policy positions, particularly on the economy, and they’re vastly more radical than Starmer’s critics might have expected.

A £190,000 McLaren Plug-In Hybrid Sports Car Bursts Into Flames On TEST DRIVE

This is the moment a £190,000 McLaren plug-in hybrid sports car exploded into flames during a test drive.

The McLaren Artura, the supercar manufacturer’s first electrified car was engulfed while being taken out for a spin in Leeds, West Yorkshire, just a mile away from the motor dealership.

Pictures show the charred wreckage of the plug-in hybrid, which was recalled in the US this year over a fire hazard.

Fire crews raced to Pontefract Road in Stourton, Leeds, just before 2.30 pm yesterday.

It’s understood that the 23-plate car was on a test run with a client and a showroom employee when it unexpectedly caught alight. Both passengers escaped uninjured.

The motor, which can race to 60mph in just 2.6 seconds and on to a top speed of 205mph was about a mile away from the McLaren Leeds dealership.

A spokesperson from West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said that they received a call from the driver regarding a hybrid McLaren which went up in flames during its demo drive in Leeds, on the roundabout near the M1 at junction 44.

The spokesperson said they sent crews from Hunslet, which arrived on the scene at 2.35 p.m. They also sent a Hazardous Material Officer to dispose of the electrical battery. The fire was put out at 3:02 p.m. with no report of injury.

The Artura is McLaren’s first foray into the electrical market, featuring a 7.4Wh battery that powers a 94bhp electric motor. However, the supercar, built at McLaren’s composite arm in South Yorkshire, has had a rocky start.

The first launch was cancelled at the last minute due to software problems and at the rescheduled event last summer a car caught fire.

Some 164 Arturas, which feature a 3.0-litre twin turbo V6 engine made in Britain, were recalled in December by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

It warned of a fire hazard that arises from a high-pressure fuel pipe that can become loose.

The cause of the fire in Leeds, near junction 44 of the M1, is not known.

In his Sunday Times review, Grand Tour star Jeremy Clarkson said that he was told at the press launch there were a number of other problems, including some ‘thermal powertrain management issues’, which he said sounded like ‘fire’ to him.

He said that he had a good old poke around in the interior of his test car and he had to say it seemed to be as well made as a Victorian tunnel.

This, however, has become a common problem with electric cars, and fires are common with batteries and extremely difficult to extinguish.

Cyclists are told to wear helmets. Now people driving electric cars should be told to wear fireproof clothing!

These Lithium batteries are undoubtedly extremely dangerous. I wouldn’t drive one because they’re evidently not fit for purpose.

There is only one way for this green agenda to pan out and that’s to go back to horse and cart. They’re green and environmentally friendly and if you hate the thought of animals being used, just walk everywhere!

It’s time we had an independent investigation into just how dangerous these EVs really are.

Imagine what would happen if one of these exploded into flames in a tunnel. It’s time to eradicate these electric cars because they’re not helping our so-called climate at all.

This is really green, isn’t it? Complete your journey and then the car sets on fire and meanwhile, it can keep you warm, they think of everything now!

After Hamas Attack On Israel, Rob Rinder’s Jewish Mother Feels Unsafe In Britain

Rob Rinder disclosed that his Jewish mother didn’t feel safe in Britain after the Hamas attack on Israel.

The TV judge also told Good Morning Britain that his young nephew goes to school ‘under risk’ and may ‘not come home’ as he fears for the safety of all Jewish people across the country.

It comes amid fears of a surge in anti-Semitic hate crimes in Britain after Hamas terrorists massacred innocent Israeli civilians at the weekend, and Israel started bombing Gaza in retaliation.

Robert Rinder was born into a Jewish family and received an MBE in 2021, along with his mother Angela Cohen, in recognition of their services to Holocaust teaching.

He learned how seven of his relatives were slaughtered in Nazi concentration camps in the Second World War while delving into his family history on a 2018 episode of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are?

Speaking to GMB, he said that his mother was sitting there saying that she felt unsafe. There are less than 270,000 Jews in this country and his nephew, kids as young as seven, were going to school and they did so at risk.

He said that there was a chance they could go to school and not come home and that sending your kids to school shouldn’t be an act of courage, but that was the life-lived experience of Jewish kids just going to school.

He said that shop owners in London and in other cities have lived a memory of that, of what that means not to be safe because of your religion, because of being Jewish.

He added that it was personal for him but it should be personal for every person, whoever they are, up and down the country, and that it was worth remembering when you think about how you’re going to respond today.

He said he was at a vigil outside Downing Street. What happened at that vigil was there was no chanting, no happiness, there was a prayer for peace, for every single human life, every single human life that has value.

He said that whatever happens in the Middle East should have no impact on the safety of our communities and that it was our job whoever you are to stand alongside us because we need you, and he added to be mindful of that and what you say before you post.

No Jew feels safe here at the moment, and it will get worse. We shouldn’t let their war become ours! Unfortunately, it’s too late thanks to Sadiq Khan.

This is appalling because every person has the right to feel safe in the United Kingdom.

People are asking what the police are doing about this. But this requires more than our pathetic weak police, it needs the army to task safety on our streets, schools and anywhere else required. We need to get the job done, now we don’t think about it until it’s too late.

Every child in school has the right to feel safe and it’s a sad reflection on society that they don’t.

Rob Rinder discussed his mother and his family on TV and he attracted attention to himself and his family, not an extremely smart idea, and why broadcast yourself and your family if you’re so afraid?

We must stand up against these bullies because bullying, harassment and intimidation should not be tolerated. The trouble is that there’s so much hate and not enough love in this world.

Instead Of Prison, Low-Level Offenders Will Clean Up Graffiti And Plant Trees

Low-level offenders will be made to clean up graffiti and plant trees instead of being sent to jail in a bid to solve a major overcrowding situation in UK prisons.

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk is set to unveil a string of reforms to sentencing amid claims judges have been told to delay punishing violent criminals like rapists because there’s nowhere to put them.

Justice Chalk said that the changes would see rapist serve their full term, removing the possibility of releasing them halfway through to serve the rest of their time on remand.

However, he said that the government had to look at the way less serious offenders ‘repay their debt to society’, citing the example of the US state of Texas, which is ‘not known for its relaxed approach to criminal justice’.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Justice Chalk said: ‘We need to look again at low-level offenders. Because while the overall reoffending rate is 25 per cent, the rate for people who spend fewer than 12 months in prison is over 50 per cent,’ he said.

‘A short stretch of a few months inside isn’t enough time to rehabilitate criminals but is more than enough to dislocate them from the family, work and home connections that keep them from crime. Too often, offenders routinely turn back to crime as soon as they walk out of the prison gates.’

Judges and magistrates would adopt a ‘presumption’ that criminals facing shorter prison terms should instead receive ‘robust community orders’ designed to rehabilitate them.

The measures could apply to offenders including thieves and shoplifters but anyone found guilty of a sexual or violent offence would be excluded, it has been reported previously.

Four years ago, former justice secretary David Gauke unveiled plans for the abolition of six-month sentences. These were abandoned by Boris Johnson when he became prime minister in 2019. Similar plans had also been mooted by Rory Stewart.

A newspaper outlet understands that the announcement is expected to include a significant extension of an electronic tagging scheme.

The ‘home detention curfew’ tag programme was broadened as recently as February, when the amount of time offenders could get off their sentences was increased from four and a half months to six. It could now be extended again to as much as 12 months, it is understood.

Justice Chalk wrote: ‘There are alternatives to having low-level offenders languishing in prison. Judges can make them repay their debt to society in communities – cleaning up neighbourhoods, scrubbing graffiti off walls, and even helping to plant new forests. And with technology moving on rapidly, these options are growing. The latest GPS tags, for example, offer many more options than the radio frequency versions, which were the only ones available to the court when I first started my career as a prosecutor.

This is more deck chair shuffling to cover up this Government’s failure to build new prisons, having closed numerous prisons. Couple that failure with the fact that the population has increased and criminals have flooded in through an open border using up what space there is.

More prisons need to be built, but that’s far too sensible for our Government to figure out.

Prison is no longer a deterrent. Shoplifters living on the streets need a warm place to stay in the winter and often make sure they’re arrested and charged and then go to prison so that they have a meal, a bed and a warm place to stay during the winter months, then come out, shoplift again through the summer and then go back to prison in the winter.

What the government needs to do is teach a man to fish because making money is much more fun than going to prison and we should be teaching these people a trade so that they can come out and make some money, instead of stealing it.

Most minor crimes are caused because the youngsters of today have nothing to do with their time, so they just hang around on street corners and then end up doing a crime because there’s nothing else for them to do, and it’s far more interesting to rob a little old lady than to be on a street corner scratching their balls.

Glitter On Sir Keir Starmer

A Protestor jumped on stage and poured glitter on Sir Keir Starmer during his Labour conference speech.

I’m not even sure if I should laugh or cry because even though it’s not the appropriate thing to do, I can see why MPs are not being taken seriously.

On the other hand, killing someone whether it be an MP or not is against the law and should be punishable by a jail sentence, and for an extremely long time.

Protestor Yaz Ashmawi glittered bombed Sir Keir Starmer on stage on the last day of the party’s annual conference in Liverpool, although he did apologise.

Security evidently wasn’t very tight at the conference to have hopped on stage, prompting questions over how he was able to get so close to Sir Keir Starmer.

Evidently, security at the conference had been surprisingly low, with no airport-style detectors and few bag scanners.

MP Jo Cox died in June 2016, after Thomas Mair shot her three times with a hunting rifle while she was on her way to a constituency surgery.

Two years ago, Tory MP David Amess was stabbed to death by 25-year-old Ali Harbi Ali, again at a constituency surgery.

Even though Sir Keir Starmer was only bombed by glitter, it could have been much more serious and he should take this event extremely seriously for him and his wife because we just don’t know if this was random and next time it could be somebody with more sinister intent, especially with everything that’s going on in Israel and Palestine at the moment, and this is something that MPs should continuously worry about.

Of course, we still have a modicum of free speech and why shouldn’t we? However, free speech is just that, the freedom to say what you want, but there should be no slaying because of it. However, there are radicals out there that will kill for that liberty of speech.

Mr Ashmawi has taken responsibility for what he did and apologised for making Sir Keir Starmer feel unsafe. However, tossing glitter was the form of the demonstration.

He told the podcast that he was arrested and he was held by the police for 22 hours and Sir Keir Starmer said he was determined not to let this idiot get in the way of him delivering his speech.

Of course, things could have been a lot worse.

I realise that he has a job to do, but no amount of money would allow me to put my family in danger, but then you can’t polish a turd, but you can sprinkle some glitter on it.

I, of course, apologise if this comment offended anybody, but then that’s why it’s called free speech! Sorry, I didn’t have any glitter.

The Great Unwashed

Millions of hard-up Brits are cutting back on showers, washing clothes less and sharing baths to try to save money on energy and water bills.

According to new research, an incredible 43 per cent of adults are taking fewer baths and showers, while almost half are washing their clothes less frequently to cut energy and water usage.

But while many are risking being less hygienic to mitigate the elevated cost of living, one in six people are making cost-cutting fun and flirty, without sacrificing cleanliness, by sharing baths and showers with a partner or friend.

Research by household money-saving site Nous.co found 58 per cent of people in Glasgow and 57 per cent in Newcastle are sharing baths more.

People in Leeds (35 per cent), Liverpool (36 per cent) and Manchester (37 per cent) were at the bottom of the table, with most choosing to bathe alone.

Greg Marsh, founder and CEO of Nous.co, said that their research showed the lengths to which millions of people are having to go to drastically alter their lives because they’re struggling so much to make ends meet and for many this was no laughing matter.

The research also found that across Britain as a whole, women were cutting down on baths more than men, 45 per cent compared to 40 per cent and that people under 25 were keener on personal hygiene than those over 65.

When it comes to sharing baths, Bristol (21 per cent) and Leeds (20 per cent) are the collaborative areas, while Liverpool (11 per cent), Manchester and London (14 per cent) are the shyest about getting soapy with a partner or friend.

He said that while none of us can completely avoid rising bills for energy, food and mortgages, we can all make a difference by saving on the things we can have a bit of control over.

He said it is possible to save on bills if you know where to look.

He added that as for sharing baths, we can’t advise how much that would save although get carried away and you may find your household costs increasing nine months later.

When it comes to washing clothes, cutting back is much harder to inject enjoyment into.

Glasgow also led the field on where people were admitting to using their washing machine less (67 per cent) with Nottingham not far behind (64 per cent).

Sharing a bath was extremely common back in the day. They would fill up the tin bath and everybody would use the same water. It was a case of having to or go dirty, but in these modern times when having a bath is the norm, well it was until the cost of living crisis.

Filling a bath can be quite expensive and people just don’t have that sort of money to spend. However, you can still have a bath in shallow water and still be clean. It might get a tad chilly in the winter months, but you wouldn’t be in there that long.

Children go in first because they’re small and don’t need that much water, kids go in second and can be topped up a bit, and then the adults could top it up a bit more. That way all the family have had one bath and it probably still wouldn’t have been filled to the top.

It likely wouldn’t cost that make to take a shower either, but not every home has a shower and relies on taking a bath.

An average shower would probably cost around 70p, but then 70p in the grand scheme of things adds up to a lot of money when each person in a house has one.

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