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The autumn of the patriarch
Dudley Ramsden had the final say on nearly every move made by Nisa-Today's for almost 30 years. That all changed when the Costcutter merger was rejected and, on November 28, he stepped down as executive chairman to take on the less hands-on role...
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Availability
Asda Derby Road, Spondon. 0 This Asda Wal-Mart supercentre store provided all 33 items on this week's list, many of which were subject to promotion. The store was clean and tidy but our shopper said narrow aisles and...
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Impartial voices badly needed
SIR; Liz Hamson's piece on planning highlighted a number of serious problems with the UK's planning system. One of the biggest has to be conflict of interests. The article mentioned Darlington, where councillors recently voted against a Tesco...
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Impartial voices badly needed
SIR; Liz Hamson's piece on planning highlighted a number of serious problems with the UK's planning system. One of the biggest has to be conflict of interests. The article mentioned Darlington, where councillors recently voted against a Tesco...
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Injury worries spark store ban on Heelys
Youngsters who whizz around on their 'Heelys' - shoes with wheels fitted to the soles - have been banned from Tesco's 90-plus stores in Ireland. Company bosses took action after receiving customer complaints. Notices alerting people of...
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Banana growers' plea bearing fruit
Banana producers in the Windward Islands say trade is improving after their emotional plea for support.In the summer, the Windward Islands' Banana Development and Exporting Company (Wibdeco) said the region's economy risked collapse...
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Barker: charge for landbanking
Supermarkets could be far less inclined to build up so-called landbanks if proposed radical changes to England's planning regime go ahead. Charges will be heaped upon any empty site or undeveloped brownfield land if the government follows...
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Barker: charge for landbanking
Supermarkets could be far less inclined to build up so-called landbanks if proposed radical changes to England's planning regime go ahead.Charges will be heaped upon any empty site or undeveloped brownfield land if the government follows...
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Price Basket
The price of our basket of meat and fish fell for only the third time this year, recording its biggest change since July and its biggest fall since March. It's now 0.9% cheaper than in the previous survey four weeks ago, but still 9.7% more...
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Price Basket
The price of our basket of meat and fish fell for only the third time this year, recording its biggest change since July and its biggest fall since March. It's now 0.9% cheaper than in the previous survey four weeks ago, but still 9.7% more...
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Battered, yes, but not bowed
The bombardment of southern Lebanon and renewed hostilities in Gaza have dominated the national media for months and fuelled rising fears about instability in the Middle East. Yet for the Israeli companies that produce and import food and drink...
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Battered, yes, but not bowed
The bombardment of southern Lebanon and renewed hostilities in Gaza have dominated the national media for months and fuelled rising fears about instability in the Middle East. Yet for the Israeli companies that produce and import food and drink...
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Scientists battle over organic chicken taste
Organic chicken is fattier and less nutritious than standard chicken, new research claims. The University of Strathclyde's scientists said tests on supermarket-bought chicken breasts showed organic ones contained fewer Omega-3 fatty acids...
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Scientists battle over organic chicken taste
Organic chicken is fattier and less nutritious than standard chicken, new research claims.The University of Strathclyde's scientists said tests on supermarket-bought chicken breasts showed organic ones contained fewer Omega-3 fatty acids...
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Greenpeace guns for beam trawling
Greenpeace ratcheted up the pressure on multiples to improve fish sourcing policies by "displaying" hundreds of dead fish and crabs at store entrances.Tesco, Asda and Morrisons in Oxford were targeted in two days of protest this week and...
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Shelves spilling over as beautiful offers pick up
The health, beauty and baby category has started to increase activity in featured space promotions in the run-up to Christmas. This category has been consistently in the top 10 branded activity chart and in the top five for three of the...
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Morrisons' Melnyk set to go before Christmas
Marie Melnyk has resigned as managing director of Morrisons after taking medical advice. She will leave on 22 December after more than 30 years at the supermarket chain and will then consider her options for the future. The company...
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Industry blasts Defra welfare labelling plan
Defra proposals for a good-better-best welfare label on food products have come in for flak from the industry. Following the launch of a 12-week consultation period last week, the proposed bronze, silver and gold labelling system has...
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Industry blasts Defra welfare labelling plan
Defra proposals for a good-better-best welfare label on food products have come in for flak from the industry.Following the launch of a 12-week consultation period last week, the proposed bronze, silver and gold labelling system has...
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Business blooms in the desert
Few British shoppers realise it, but they are taking home more produce than ever before from Israeli fields, groves and orchards. Of the £140m of produce imported into Britain by Agrexco and Mehadrin Tnuport Export, about three-quarters...