Banning cigarette displays in shops to discourage people from smoking could backfire by glamourising tobacco among the young, the Daily Mail said. The Federation of Small Businesses described the proposals to force tobacco under the counter and remove cigarette machines from pubs as "a move towards a pseudo-prohibition state".
Supermarkets could be forced to use traffic-light health warnings on packs as part of an anti-obesity drive by ministers, the Daily Telegraph reported. The paper said the Department of Health, the FSA and the EU was forging a deal to make the system mandatory. The move would anger Tesco, which has pioneered a different system used by more than 50 companies, said the paper.
The 7,500 inhabitants of the Devon seaside resort of Seaton are preparing for a fight against Tesco following its acquisition of the Lyme Bay Holiday Village, the region's largest employer, and ordered its closure. According to the Independent, 152 staff have received redundancy letters informing them that the holiday park would close to make way for a large supermarket.
Heinz tomato ketchup and Branston pickle are among the products Britons would miss most if they moved abroad, according to a YouGov survey. The poll of more than 2,000 respondents indicated they would miss Heinz, British pubs and Christmas if they moved abroad.
Skippers of fishing boats at some of England's most famous ports are facing ruin as a result of strict EU quotas, the Guardian has claimed. Three-quarters of the fleet was chasing just 3% of the allowed catch of fish such as cod, hake and monkfish, the paper said, with the smallest boats most at risk. Westminster was trying to head off a rebellion from the English small boat fleet, partly by paying the skippers of the most prolific small boats to stop fishing, it added.
Supermarkets could be forced to use traffic-light health warnings on packs as part of an anti-obesity drive by ministers, the Daily Telegraph reported. The paper said the Department of Health, the FSA and the EU was forging a deal to make the system mandatory. The move would anger Tesco, which has pioneered a different system used by more than 50 companies, said the paper.
The 7,500 inhabitants of the Devon seaside resort of Seaton are preparing for a fight against Tesco following its acquisition of the Lyme Bay Holiday Village, the region's largest employer, and ordered its closure. According to the Independent, 152 staff have received redundancy letters informing them that the holiday park would close to make way for a large supermarket.
Heinz tomato ketchup and Branston pickle are among the products Britons would miss most if they moved abroad, according to a YouGov survey. The poll of more than 2,000 respondents indicated they would miss Heinz, British pubs and Christmas if they moved abroad.
Skippers of fishing boats at some of England's most famous ports are facing ruin as a result of strict EU quotas, the Guardian has claimed. Three-quarters of the fleet was chasing just 3% of the allowed catch of fish such as cod, hake and monkfish, the paper said, with the smallest boats most at risk. Westminster was trying to head off a rebellion from the English small boat fleet, partly by paying the skippers of the most prolific small boats to stop fishing, it added.
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