diff --git a/recipes/newslaundry.recipe b/recipes/newslaundry.recipe
index 7b105a59ce..9873b60157 100644
--- a/recipes/newslaundry.recipe
+++ b/recipes/newslaundry.recipe
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe, classes
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class newslaundry(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title = 'Newslaundry'
@@ -32,5 +32,6 @@ class newslaundry(BasicNewsRecipe):
     #    return soup
 
     def print_version(self, url):
-        if 'hindi.newslaundry' in url: self.abort_article('Skipping hindi article') # remove this line if you want hindi articles.
+        if 'hindi.newslaundry' in url:
+            self.abort_article('Skipping hindi article') # remove this line if you want hindi articles.
         return url
diff --git a/recipes/project_syndicate.recipe b/recipes/project_syndicate.recipe
index 5091865961..fdf3289965 100644
--- a/recipes/project_syndicate.recipe
+++ b/recipes/project_syndicate.recipe
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe, classes
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 from calibre.scraper.simple import read_url
 from calibre.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryFile
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class projectsynd(BasicNewsRecipe):
         dict(attrs={'itemprop':lambda x: x and 'associatedMedia' in x.split()}),
         dict(attrs={'itemprop':['headline', 'datePublished', 'author', 'abstract', 'articleBody']}),
     ]
-    
+
     remove_tags = [
         dict(name=['button', 'svg']),
         dict(attrs={'data-message-area':True}),