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The government is being urged to consider putting a ‘calorie tax’ on cakes, biscuits and other processed food after the success of sugar tax. The Action on Sugar and Action on Salt company said businesses producing calorie loaded food should be taxed to encourage healthier versions of food. This all comes after the sugar tax…
UK retailers have recorded the worst month for sales in July since records began. Total sales increased by 0.3% in July compared to 1.6% in July last year. July saw record temperatures which would normally expect bigger sales of items that are summer clothes but the demand was not as big as normal. Helen Dickinson, chief…
Tesco has announced that around 4,500 staff in 153 Tesco Metro stores are set to lose their jobs. The supermarket said they are making changes to the way the stores operate to “serve shoppers better”. Tesco boss Jason Tarry said the firm did not take the redundancy decision lightly. The company said the metro store…
Twenty hospitals in England will be receiving an extra £850m of funding to go towards upgrades for outdated facilities and new equipment. The £850m will be spread out over five years and will come on top of an extra £20bn a year by 2023. Some of the money will be used to build a new…
Farms in country lanes and surrounded by fields are being targeted by criminals. According to NFU Mutual, losses to British farmers from theft hit a seven-year high of £50 million in 2018. There was a 26% rise in claims for stolen farm vehicles such as tractors and quad bikes last year with all claims adding…
An RAF helicopter has been brought in to help repair a damaged reservoir which hold a threat of flooding a town. Engineers have been pumping water out of the Toddbrook Reservoir, in Derbyshire, after part of a dam wall collapsed. The Toddbrook Reservoir contains 1.3 million tonnes of water and sits above hundreds of homes…
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