People power wins!! Benugo has 'stepped aside' from the contract to run the three Hampstead family run cafés. 'We’ve listened, and are responding in the way we think is best for all', said founder Ben Warner. I wonder if the threat from the 25,000 petition signatories to …
Environmental Issues
City of London held to account
Yes, Hampstead turned out in force last night to hold the City of London to account over the cafés scandale by which the contracts for three of the best loved local heath cafés are to be taken away from the families who have run them for the last 30+ years and handed to the …
Corporation of London acts like corporate monster!
If you don't live around North London you may have escaped the mounting furore that has erupted over the the City of London Corporation's management of Hampstead Heath. Competent and caring custodians of the heath, they would have us believe – yet they are currently behaving …
Random thoughts on food crime, sentencing for food crime – and a mental health charity….
Working backwards..... We get a great number of people asking us to add links to their site from FoodsMatter but we do feel that we have to be pretty rigorous in keeping our focus on allergy, food allergy, food intolerance and directly related conditions. Otherwise our links …
Up for signing a few petitions?…..
With the advent of the internet, signing petitions has become a whole new way of life! But although not all of those that get launched are successful, there is no doubt that many are – and that it is a very cheap and relatively painless way of gathering support for causes that …





