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Rob Flello, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South, is to become the acting chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity, taking over from Rosie Cooper MP following her work to establish the Parliamentary group, which was recently...

Infant children at 20 schools across Sheffield are being given free school meals this week as part of LACA’s National School Meals Week. Part-funded by Sheffield Change4Life, the scheme is being delivered by catering company Taylor Shaw. Peter...

The UK’s hospitality and food service sector is facing an annual bill in excess of £2.5b for food waste, a new WRAP report revealed today. The report, ‘Overview of waste in the UK Hospitality and Food Service (HaFS) Sector’, also predicts that this...

Al Crisci, the prison catering manager who opened The Clink, is leading the search in this year’s BBC Food & Farming Awards. The chef, whose own work was serialised in a BBC 1 television series, is calling on people to send in nominations for...

Cheshire-based Food Dudes, a social enterprise promoting healthy eating to schoolchildren, has announced the appointment of Ian Scothern as director of commissioning in the UK. The company runs evidenced-based programmes for schools encouraging...

New FreeFrom Eating Out Awards – designed to raise awareness of among foodservice operators of the growing numbers either needing or choosing to eat ‘freefrom’ – have been launched. The awards are now open for entry and this will close on August 31st...

Hobart Cooking Solutions is making some changes to its business approach to ensure resources are targeted at key growth areas to delivery maximum benefits. As a result sales director Steve Martin is stepping down and retiring at the end of September...

New research from Seafish, the body that supports the British seafood industry, has revealed that children in the UK have a ‘worrying lack of awareness’ when it comes to naming different species of edible fish. In a poll of Britain’s five to 11 year...

A YouGov poll commissioned by the National Farmers’ Union of over 1,100 parents found that 76 per cent agreed that food should be sourced from Britain wherever possible. Meanwhile, 87 per cent of parents responding to the survey thought that at least...