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Supermarket shoppers issued warning as 'half and half' bread taken off shelves

The Real Bread campaign group has been waging war againt the naming of 'half and half' loaves.

Daily Record

Bread warning for shoppers as some 'half and half' products pulled from shelves

The Real Bread Campaign is asking them to review the marketing saying by law the word wholemeal ''can only be used in a product name or marketing if all of the flour in that product is wholemeal''.

Nottingham Post

Shoppers issued bread warning as 'half and half' products stripped from supermarket shelves

Iceland is said to have already made changes, with other supermarkets possibly following suit in the future

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Warning for shoppers who buy 'half and half' bread as products pulled from shelves

Iceland has removed its own-brand ‘50% white and wholemeal’ loaf after a complaint was made by the lobby group to trading standards and campaigners say other supermarkets could follow the move

Daily Mirror

Warning to anyone who buys bread as products pulled from shelves

Iceland has reportedly already made changes

Liverpool Echo

Campaign group fighting half-and-half bread sees battle taken to the Government

The group has written to manufacturers and retailers as well as local authorities, and the case has been sent up to DEFRA

Wales Online

Top geneticist warns UK is embarking on experiment that could ‘cause great harm’

Lord Winston told Parliament he was ‘very concerned’ that the use of this technology could have unintended consequences

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Environment Secretary would like sewage discharges cut ‘a lot quicker’

Therese Coffey said she would want it to happen faster than the final 2050 target – if there was not a ‘massive’ impact on household water bills.

The Independent UK

Government rules on wood burning stoves from fuel restrictions to smoke control areas

Anyone with a wood burning stove could be fined up to £1,000 if they don't follow the strict regulations around them - here's what you need to know

Chronicle Live

‘It’s a farce’: the giant Brexit border control site now used to inspect Ukrainian pets

The customs inspection site at Sevington in Kent has space for 1,700 lorries, but lies largely deserted

The Guardian - UK

Panel rules new disease may have caused sea creature deaths on North East beaches

The official report details how dredging and pyridine were very unlikely to have caused the tragic die-off.

Chronicle Live

'Apocalyptic' mass crustaceans deaths 'caused by new disease unknown to science'

Locals in Hartlepool to Whitby described the sight of dead crabs and lobsters as 'apocalyptic' and a new report is out after the Department for the Environment initially blamed an 'algal bloom'

Daily Mirror

No definite answer to cause of mass crab deaths on north-east coast as experts give their verdict

It had been claimed that work to expand a port in the area had triggered the deaths

Wales Online

7 million birds have died amid bird flu outbreak 'devastating' farms

Defra said the figures are UK-wide and showed both captive birds that died of avian influenza and those that were culled for disease control

Wales Online

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The Guardian - UK

Mass crab die-off: scientists say ‘we weren’t questioned’ for crucial report

A review panel on the 2021 Teesside eco-disaster is due to send its findings to ministers this week, but evidence from academics may not be given full weight

Chronicle Live

Single-use plastic plates and forks set to be banned by Government in crackdown

The law will initially target takeaways with ban on single-use cutlery and polystyrene trays and follows similar measures in Scotland and Wales

The Independent UK

Single-use plastic plates and cutlery to be banned from October in England

Greenpeace says ban is ‘nibbling around edges of a giant problem’

Chronicle Live

MPs urge freeport dredging pause as North East marine mass deaths investigated

A mass die-off of crustaceans occurred along the North East coast between October and December 2021

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Evening Standard

Full list of government departments and services due to be hit by civil servant strike on February 1

A huge number of public services are set to impacted when 100,000 civil servants walk out

WEKU

England will ban single-use plastic plates and cutlery for environmental reasons

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey says the new ban will stop pollution from "billions of pieces of plastic." Advocates applaud the move but say it doesn't go far enough on its own.

Wales Online

Single-use plastic cutlery and plates set to be banned in England

The ban could come in across England by the end of the year

The Guardian - UK

Post-Brexit £1,000 farming payments ‘too little, too late’, says NFU

Environmental cash incentives part of government scheme to replace EU common agricultural policy

The Guardian - UK

Just 224 farmers were paid under post-Brexit farming scheme last year

Exclusive: Leaked figures show tiny fraction of England’s farms received payment under sustainable farming incentive

Wales Online

Warning to not feed birds at Caerphilly Castle after a number of swans and geese are found dead and 'sick'

The matter has been reported to the UK Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

The Independent UK

Government criticised for leaving overall water quality out of its environment targets

Ministers accused of only doing half their job and leaving gaps in protections

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