An inquiry into the affordability of food in light of global price rises is to take place, the Scottish Government has announced.
The move is one of a range of measures unveiled as Scotland moves towards its first national policy for food and drink.
Top chef Martin Wishart will lead a campaign to improve the quality and [...]

WELSH food and drink companies will be joining their European counterparts in Amsterdam today and tomorrow at a specialist trade event.
The PLMA (Private Label Manufacturers Association) exhibition is for food and drink companies and high quality European retail and foodservice buyers looking to source new products and suppliers for own label brands.
Organised by International Business [...]

BUDDING Jamie Olivers got their chef hats during a trip on a cooking bus.
Pupils from Norland Junior and Infant School were given lessons in preparing good food while aboard the Focus on Food Cooking Bus which made a stop at Dean Clough Mills in Halifax.
The bus, funded by Yorkshire Forward and run by the Focus [...]

MayRun To The SunNewquay, Cornwall23-26 May For most of its 22-year history, Run to the Sun has simply been a group of VW Campervan owners getting together to drive to the beach in Cornwall. Now it has grown into a fully fledged three-day music festival, with four arenas and two sites, but it still starts [...]

The Ribble Valley is best known for two things: twitching and JRR Tolkien. An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Forest of Bowland - “forest” meaning a royal hunting ground here, as opposed to a wooded area - is home to various rare birds. Tolkien, meanwhile, a regular visitor to Stonyhurst college in Hurst Green, [...]

And although Easter Sundays feast has taken on new interpretations in these secular times, it is still an occasion to get together with family and friends and share good food and drink.
As a feast day it is not yet as commercial or expensive as Christmas dinner, and for that let us all be [...]

And although Easter Sundays feast has taken on new interpretations in these secular times, it is still an occasion to get together with family and friends and share good food and drink.
As a feast day it is not yet as commercial or expensive as Christmas dinner, and for that let us all be [...]

Prices are per person for a week in June, unless otherwise stated. The Asian-style spaInstead of:Chiva Som, Thailand - %26pound;2,535Try: Choupana Hills, Madeira - %26pound;885 Spa aficionados insist Asian spas are the best in the world, and that a 10-hour flight and a large wedge of cash are a small price to pay for such [...]

In a special pediatric program at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, recent patients have included a 100-pound 3-year-old girl and a 417-pound 15-year-old boy. Some children had to be weighed on a loading dock scale.
In a Milwaukee hospital in May, 285-pound Charles Hayes stooped to kiss his 248-pound wife, Jodi, 33, [...]