After the intense freezing cold and snow ‘Beast of the East’ that hit London two weeks ago, we recovered enough to think that was the last we saw of the wintry weather but we were wrong!

We have all just survived the coldest March since 1963 in the UK, and last week was particularly horrendous with the extreme wind chill  from Siberia’s ‘Beast from the East’ and the cold Atlantic winds of ‘Storm Emma’ converging together on the UK driving intense snow blizzards covering the whole country bringing it to a standstill, closing schools, roads, offices, public transport and even killing some people! Travelling was almost an impossibility with many trains cancelled and stations shut and buses reduced to an emergency service.

We live in a modern world full of wonderful gadgets and inventions which we take almost for granted as part of our way of life these days, and the vacuum cleaner is one of those indispensable gadgets that was really the last major leap in inventions within the cleaning industry.