In a victory for everyone from Jamie Oliver to Michelle Obama, the school cafeterias of America are to redesign their menus around strict calorie limits and minimum quotas of healthy food.
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Has Jamie won? US school meals to include more 'veg' (like pizza)
Friday 27 January 2012
Pupils will be offered healthier food in bid to slim down worrying childhood obesity levels
Culinary crossroads: Afghan cuisine blends its neighbours' flavours but has a charm of its own
Friday 27 January 2012
Afghan food features Turkish, Middle Eastern and Indian flavours. Now, its diverse dishes can be enjoyed here, as Charlotte McDonald-Gibson discovers.
Farmers on red alert over outbreaks of new livestock disease
Tuesday 24 January 2012
A new livestock disease which causes birth deformities in sheep, cattle and goats has been identified in Britain for the first time.
RSM Tenon dives after Morton walks out
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Shares in the accountancy group RSM Tenon fell 29 per cent yesterday after its chairman, Bob Morton, and chief executive, Andy Raynor (pictured), resigned, and the firm issued a profits warning.
Cannabis farm uncovered just yards from police station
Friday 20 January 2012
A cannabis farm has been discovered just yards away from a city centre police station.
BBC hit by technicians strike
Thursday 19 January 2012
A strike by BBC technicians over plans to move production of TV and radio programmes disrupted the corporation's output today.
Bid for sheep shearing at the Olympics
Wednesday 18 January 2012
It was a world record, even if it passed much of the world by: last week a New Zealander, Kerri-Jo Te Huia, became the first woman to shear more than 500 lambs in eight hours.
Get with the beasts: a big game hunter's guide to modern Britain
Saturday 14 January 2012
Reports of a big cat going wild near Stroud only scratch the surface. Tom Peck and Joshua Carroll investigate
Children's books to replace toys in Happy Meals
Wednesday 11 January 2012
Children who are regular visitors to McDonald's are used to finding a cheap, plastic toy in their Happy Meals. From today, they will uncover something rather more high-brow: a Michael Morpurgo novel.
Terence Blacker: We're not world class at many things, but looking after animals is one
Tuesday 10 January 2012
The Way We Live: It's pleasing that British morality can influence tough foreign farmers
Thousands massacred as two tribes go to war in South Sudan
Saturday 07 January 2012
UN peacekeepers tell residents of Jonglei state capital to flee as raiders approach
Darts: Wade scythes down Farmer
Friday 30 December 2011
The third seed James Wade was at his best yesterday as he powered into the quarter-finals of the PDC World Championship with a 4-0 win over Steve Farmer.
Threats, car chases and arson: how the hare coursing ban is flouted
Monday 26 December 2011
A battle is raging between criminal gangs and landowner farmers
Hong Kong slaughters 17,000 chickens in new bird flu scare
Wednesday 21 December 2011
Hong Kong health authorities are slaughtering more than 17,000 chickens at a market after a chicken carcass there was found to be infected with bird flu.
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