Men arrested for licking hands and wiping food at Sainsbury’s
Lancashire police has arrested two men after they licked their hands and contaminated food in a Sainsbury’s in Morecambe. The incident took place on the 4th April at the supermarket on Lancaster Road, where the men had been caught licking their hands and wiping them...
McDonald’s sales suffer slight drop despite worldwide restaurant closures
McDonald’s sales fell by only 3.4% in the first three months of the year, despite closing all of its restaurants in the UK. The fast food chain’s international business was hit due to closures in the UK, France, Italy and Spain, but 99% of restaurants in the US...
Record number of people apply for fruit and veg grower jobs
Travel restrictions on overseas workers has seen a record number of people apply for farming jobs, according to job site TotalJobs. As a result of the current Covid-19 crisis, the UK has faced a shortage of fruit and vegetable pickers. However, Totaljobs says it has...
Tesco suffers significant costs due to Covid-19
Tesco said it is “incurring significant additional costs” as the company tries to deal with the impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. In a statement released alongside its preliminary results for the financial year ending 29th February 2020, the supermarket said...
NFU holds crisis meeting with Defra secretary to save UK’s iconic dairy sector
National Farmers Union (NFU) president Minette Batters has called on Defra secretary, George Eustice, to a crisis meeting and to take immediate steps to ensure the sustainability of the dairy sector. The survival of many British dairy farming businesses hit by the...
