If ironing is a hated task in your household, spare a thought for a man who has ironed more than a quarter of a million shirts. David Ward is celebrating 52 years in the dry cleaning business, and in that time reckons he has pressed in excess of 250,000 shirts - and 100,000 pairs of trousers. It takes David less than a minute to turn a crumpled mess in a perfectly ironed shirt, each time with the same process. He said: "I start at the yoke - the piece of cloth at the top of the back.