Tropical nights, days hotter than Athens... the UK's heatwave has hit and there are plenty of hacks circulating on how to keep cool in the heat. However, do they actually work?
From whether to close your curtains and windows to keep the heat out to how to keep flies out of your house, there seems to be a trick for everything. With few homes in the UK set up for extreme heat, one hack that caught our eye was for 'homemade aircon'.
The simple trick can keep your home cool "for hours" apparently, so one reporter at our sister publication Manchester Evening News took up the challenge and tried it out. Harriet Morphy-Morris says: "With no aircon in sight, this homemade hack can cool you and your room down in seconds and only requires three things - a fan, water and ice."
