The Cleaner

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The Cleaner star Greg Davies had long term relationship with ... (Leicestershire Live)

Taskmaster host Greg Davies is back with The Cleaner on BBC1 this week. He was romantically involved with an MP for eight years before they decided to ...

[MP for Leicester](https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/leicestershire-mp-andrew-bridgen-spreading-8283827) West since 2010 but is not from the area, having been born in Abbots Langley, near Watford. Her dad, Richard, formerly worked for the Bank of England and was a Liberal Democrat councillor in Hertfordshire. Meanwhile, during the race to become the next Labour Party leader in 2015, Kendall opened up on her private life in the wake of her break up with Greg, saying: "As you get older, of course you want to be settled, but life changes and it doesn't work out. The MP previously suffered two miscarriages and told reporters she required surgery during attempts to conceive naturally. He joked: "It's not for me, romance...that was the day I gave up on romance." In 2021, Greg claimed he may be out of the dating game forever while chatting on The Graham Norton Show. [politics](https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/all-about/politics) to become a mum via a surrogate at the age of 50 with her partner. Davies said he had "given up" on romance after his grandad had unknowingly walked in on him and a girlfriend during an intimate moment. That's all I say. [Kendall](https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/all-about/liz-kendall) remarked during their relationship: "I am not going to be the sort of politician who does all that stuff about their private life because it's very precious to me and really important to me that I have that space that's personal and just to me." [2015 General Election](https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/all-about/general-election) and remain very good friends. [Liz Kendall](https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/all-about/liz-kendall).

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HTSI editor's letter: cleaner living with Courteney Cox (Financial Times)

Plus Herzog & de Meuron's holistic landscape, and why stripes are as elegant as ever.

“The ’60s fantasies of what the home of the future might look like, such as Archigram’s idea we’d be living in a bubble, have just not happened,” says Herzog to Lisa Freedman in an [exclusive interview](https://www.ft.com/content/cd438cda-e2a4-4d64-9426-e713227aa205). As part of a motif running throughout the huge exhibition space, Smith has used bold graphic stripes on many of the gallery walls, creating a modern backdrop against which the masterpieces really pop. [upcoming exhibition](https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/herzog-and-de-meuron#:~:text=14%20July%20%E2%80%94%2015%20October%202023,-Tues%E2%80%93Sun%3A%2010am) at the Royal Academy of Arts, tracing the evolution of some of their 600 projects, the duo discuss the changing city with HTSI and what we want from properties today. [latest venture](https://www.ft.com/content/3c4ccc06-1189-425c-a165-da450a1d0bad), a range of domestic natural cleaning products called Homecourt she claims are so refined and gentle she would use them on her skin. The architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron would surely approve of her holistic vision of modern living. This month, she reprises her role as the shellacked, pugnacious Gale Weathers in the horror franchise Scream, the only character to have appeared in every iteration of the film.

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'Like a vacuum cleaner running all day': noisy nightlife making ... (The Guardian)

Tensions between residents and revellers have reached boiling point after loosening of serving restrictions during Covid.

“We need to avoid creating these monoculture streets that are made up of just bars or just terraces,” he said, pointing to Barcelona’s Calle d’Enric Granados, where the 114 residential buildings are outnumbered by 116 terraces. “The measures that protect the rights of citizens can only be effective if the administration carries out controls and sanctions unlawful conduct.” Officials in Madrid did not respond to a request for comment. “For example, the soundproofing of some locales or cracking down on those who leave street-facing windows open.” “We’ve got neighbourhoods where the noise levels average about 70 or 75 decibels,” said Miquel Prats of Xarxa Veïnal del Raval, a residents’ association in Raval. “The numbers speak for themselves,” said Emilio Gallego of the Spanish Hospitality Industry Association. [Barcelona](https://www.theguardian.com/world/barcelona) and the northern city of Bilbao. Gabilondo, citing recent legislation passed in Madrid, said the rules were welcome but stressed that they needed to be enforced. “Each year the ombudsman receives hundreds of complaints about noise and nuisance coming from hospitality establishments,” Ángel Gabilondo, the ombudsman, wrote in his annual report. Failure to address concerns over noise could result in urban centres becoming “uninhabitable”. But posters begging people to keep quiet have popped up in city centres across Spain. It is a last ditch effort by those who have found themselves living on the frontline of a battle playing out across Spain as exhausted neighbours “Noise pollution can also violate other constitutional rights: the right to health, to an adequate environment and decent housing,” the ombudsman noted.

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