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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

‘No cheeseburgers … they would go bankrupt’: pupils reject plan to cut fatty foods from lunch menus

Students in the lunch hall at Richard Challoner school in New Malden.
Students in the lunch hall at Richard Challoner school in New Malden. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

It is lunchtime at Richard Challoner school, a Catholic comprehensive for boys in New Malden, south-west London. The familiar smell of school lunch is beginning to waft around the corridors.

In the canteen, there is a moment of calm as the kitchen team make final preparations before year 7 descend – a mass of chatting, laughing boys, with backpacks swinging and empty tummies grumbling.

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