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Emily Retter

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 29, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Aol
Top 10K sites
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Jul 13, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Emily Retter

    ‘Just look at this monstrosity!’ Inside Britain’s bilious backyard shed wars - AOL (opens the original)

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    Linda loves her shed. She loves that she can work there rather than in her dining room, which her toddler likes to tear through. She loves its Scandinavian vibe – it’s clad in wood and set on decking at the bottom of her garden. She loves the views of the countryside from the window by her desk. Or she did. Her desk faces the wall now, because she’s too nervous to face her neighbour. She never sits on the decking, either. “What if they see me?” she says. “It’s a horrible feeling.” Linda’s neighb

  2. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Emily Retter

    ‘I’m giving people a happy space’: the man clearing gardens for free – and letting light into strangers’ lives - AOL (opens the original)

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    Anita Thursby had been dreading the gas engineer coming to service her boiler. They would have needed to enter her kitchen, where the window looked into the jungle of swirling, 2-metre-high brambles that made up her back garden, and her shame had spiralled. “I would have been horrified,” she says. For the same reason, the 54-year-old had stopped inviting friends over to her house and had been living in fear of a complaint from her housing association. Maintaining the garden had slipped from her

  3. Article · Jul 26, 2026 · Emily Retter

    ‘It was like something was crawling over me’ – the worrying rise of shingles among millennial women - AOL (opens the original)

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    The “lightning strike” pain was like nothing Francine Jones had experienced before. “That is the only way I can describe it,” she says, of the stabbing in her torso that would occur every 10 minutes or so. “It was a really sharp, intense pain, as if someone was giving me an electric shock … it took my breath away.” It had started in May with a strange pricking sensation under her bra. Then 10 large blisters, plus a host of smaller ones, formed in a band from her stomach to her back. They burned,

  4. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Emily Retter

    ‘No matter how bad, it is always fixable’: how Bea Elton cleans up the houses – and lives – of desperate people - AOL (opens the original)

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    ‘There might be a dead bird in the box room. We think it has been there for a couple of years,” says Bea Elton, raising her voice to be heard through her respirator. It is particularly robust, as she has a dust and cat hair allergy. “Not ideal,” in her line of work, the 28-year-old concedes. Knowing it would be difficult to talk on the job, we spoke before we arrived, struggling into hazmat suits, shoe covers, gloves and masks in the overgrown garden outside the front door. “I refer to myself as

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