When it comes to health and safety, the UK’s 13-amp plug socket is an impressive feat. There are the switches (which other countries notably lack) and then there are the plastic shutters that ...

As soon as little ones start to crawl, the extreme baby-proofing begins. Baby gates are installed, wires tidied away and, for ...

and it has all to do with it disrupting the mechanism inside UK plug sockets. British 13-amp plug sockets are designed to be safe. They feature plastic shutters that are closed when the socket is ...