Q: Underneath the carpet in my bedroom is beautiful wood flooring that I want to revive. I have pulled up the carpet to expose the padding and tack strip. I need to remove the tack strip so that the ...

FOIX, France (Reuters) – Carpet tacks spread on the road brought the first Pyrenees stage of the Tour de France to a near standstill on Sunday and prompted the bunch to call a truce in the fight for ...

Hundreds of sharp tacks were put on a BMX track used by children over the weekend in a move that has been described as “sabotage”. Nuneaton BMX club arrived at their base behind the Jubilee Centre in ...

A police investigation has been launched into the incident, which took place at the Etape Caledonia race around Pitlochry in Perthshire on Sunday. Tacks were strewn on a section of the race, bursting ...

Vandals marred stage 14 of the Tour de France on Sunday as carpet tacks thrown on to the road caused more than 30 punctures for riders in the peloton on the final climb. When the day was over, French ...