Terri Kirby Erickson found both perspiration and inspiration in her old Hoover vacuum cleaner. The North Carolina poet, who lives near Winston-Salem, didn't know all the sordid details of the rise and ...

When your vacuum cleaner has lived out its lifespan, you may want to just throw it in the garbage, but that is the wrong way to dispose of it.

A woman who bought a vacuum cleaner as a wedding gift to herself and her new husband is still using it 53 years later - lasting longer than her marriage. Val Marks, 70, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire ...

Margaret Collin reckons her Hoover Junior is Britain's most senior working vacuum cleaner. She got it from a 102-year-old aunt and it picks up perfectly - even though it was made in 1953. But, with ...