This morning Derby City Council was reported as calling for a tax of up to £400 million to be imposed on the larger supermarkets, the money to be spent on regenerating the town centres which have suffered so badly as a result of supermarket expansion. Such a scheme, known as the …
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The Allergy Show struts its stuff in the Grand Hall at Olympia
I do love Victorian ironwork. Whether it is the soaring arches of St Pancras Station, the Palm House at Kew or – the Grand Hall at Olympia. And, in terms of 'grand', you cannot get much grander than The Grand Hall at Olympia. The roof, 115 feet high and constructed from 85 …
The cost of freefrom food
'As you can see, this is a picture of a FreeFrom pizza purchased from my local Sainsbury's. My name is Jasmine and I was diagnosed with Coeliac disease when I was three and a half years of age. I am now 19, live alone and am on a low but liveable income. My concern is that …
Supermarkets and moral fibre…
A couple of days ago I received an incandescent-with-fury email berating Sainsbury's and Waitrose for stocking Belvedere Broccoli, a conventionally bred, non-GMO broccoli devloped by the Great Evil One, Monsanto. Now I hold absolutely no brief for Monsanto – I think they …
A Fair Distribution of Awards
Overheard at the Allergy show.... 'These awards are all the same – they are all fixed! Just look at the winners – all the big companies like Dietary Specials who can pay to make sure they win....' Well, as it happens, although Dietary Specials did win a category in this …