As shoppers scavenge to find toilet paper and other quarantine essentials, some crafters who are making protective masks said they struggle to find another necessary item: elastic. With protection ...

A church verger in the West Midlands is appealing for women to donate their knicker elastic to keep the church clock going. The clock, in the tower of All Saints Church, West Bromwich, stopped last ...

A church official today appealed for the women of his parish to donate a length of their used knicker elastic - to help mend a broken church clock. Mon, 09 Jul, 2001 - 17:53 A church official today ...

NOW is the time of year when you need, occasionally, to chill out from the stress of Christmas preparations. NOW is the time of year when you need, occasionally, to chill out from the stress of ...

We wear them every day. But how much attention do you pay to your pants? As a new knicker making workshop launches in Warwickshire, environment reporter Mary Griffin hears why homemade briefs are the ...

I accepted an invitation to cocktails at Dublin’s swish Pygmalion without reading the small print. After confirming and re-reading, the small print actually revealed something else, yes, there would ...

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Is that the sound of knicker elastic twanging down Alfred Gelder Street ? Last week in this column I attempted to preempt an outburst of undergarment twisting among city council officials after ...