On Monday afternoon at Sunny Launderette, the sewing machines were quiet, and Shirley Xu had just finished lunch. Inside Sunny Launderette on 20th Street, a dozen pieces of clothing hung on the rack ...

In their heyday, there were about 14,000 launderettes in the UK, with their importance to communities reflected by scriptwriters for BBC soap opera EastEnders.

Statistics show that nationally it is no longer so much ‘My Beautiful Launderette’ as ‘my fast disappearing launderette’ – but a Lancashire operation is delighted to be bucking the trend.

A washing machine is rarely worth crossing town for, but most washing machines aren’t like those in the Barbican Launderette. To one side, 10 of them stand proud, lined up like a regiment. Each is as ...

Chris Burrows, 55, from Blackwell Avenue in Sprowston, has run Magdalen Launderette in Magdalen Road and Laundromat in Dereham Road for 12 years, and said: "More people are coming to us. "A lot of ...

Sheffield city centre residents have issued a plea for a new launderette operator to take up a £35,000 offer and solve their laundry woes. News you can trust since 1887 Sign In ...

The launderette is somewhere for people to go; in quiet moments, it offers a warm room for solitude. When it’s busy, the regulars interact. Over the years, ...

Old launderette goes from spinning clothes to spinning plates after getting new lease of life as 5* cafe. Sharon French says business has got off to a flying start after opening the Redcar Coffee ...

They say love can find you in the most unexpected places and time, with people you never imagined, and sometimes, it's with someone you simply crossed paths with. A Malaysian man who came to live ...

A washing machine is rarely worth crossing town for, but most washing machines aren’t like those in the Barbican Launderette. To one side, 10 of them stand proud, lined up like a regiment. Each is as ...

The launderette is somewhere for people to go; in quiet moments, it offers a warm room for solitude. When it’s busy, the regulars interact. Over the years, ...