diff --git a/recipes/financial_times.recipe b/recipes/financial_times.recipe
index 5df77f095d..6374f1076d 100644
--- a/recipes/financial_times.recipe
+++ b/recipes/financial_times.recipe
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe, classes
 
 class ft(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title = 'Financial Times'
-    language = 'en'
+    language = 'en_GB'
     __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal'
     description = 'The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy.'
     oldest_article = 1.15
diff --git a/recipes/lwn_free.recipe b/recipes/lwn_free.recipe
index 7cc7c473a4..6a3362fc0d 100644
--- a/recipes/lwn_free.recipe
+++ b/recipes/lwn_free.recipe
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ class LWNFree(BasicNewsRecipe):
     description = "LWN is published every Thursday. This recipe skips current week's articles (subscriber-only) and pulls free articles from previous week."
     oldest_article = 28  # So we can grab previous week articles.
     max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    auto_cleanup = True
+    extra_css = '.FeatureByline { font-size:small; }'
+
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['ArticleText', 'PageHeadline']})]
+    remove_tags = [dict(name='blockquote', attrs={'class':'ad'}), dict(name='form')]
 
     feeds = [
         ('LWN Articles', 'https://lwn.net/headlines/Features'),
@@ -35,6 +38,7 @@ class LWNFree(BasicNewsRecipe):
             # Count how many free weekly edition we passed
             if 'Weekly Edition' in article.title:
                 weekly_count += 1
+                remove_articles.append(article)
 
             # Remove all articles starting from 2nd free weekly edition
             if weekly_count > 1: