His model was Monika Sing-Lee, then 17, whom he spotted working at her uncle's launderette in Sea Point, Cape Town.

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Fred McClenaghan, 49, of Broad Street in Magherafelt, denies murdering his former lover Marion Millican at the launderette where she worked.

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Here is the logic: Nick, the owner of my local launderette, reckons his washing machines are 40 years old and still going strong.

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She told him Tretchikoff spotted her while she was working at her uncle's launderette at Cape Town's upscale Seapoint suburb, and begged to paint her.

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McClenaghan, 49, of Broad Street, Magherafelt, used an antique double-barrelled gun to shoot the mother-of-four dead in the Portstewart launderette where she worked in March 2011.

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London Games organisers Locog revealed that the torch will pass some of the soap's iconic landmarks including the market, the launderette and The Queen Vic pub.

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Across the US, voting took place against a variety of backdrops - from a launderette and an internet cafe in Chicago to a lifeguard station in Los Angeles and car dealership in Columbus, Ohio.

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Take a pinch of Goodness Gracious Me, My Beautiful Launderette, East is East, etc and add Alison Steadman's brilliant Abigail (pinched with gusto by the fabulous Juliet Stevenson from Mike Leigh's "Abigail's Party") and you have it.

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