5 d. ago Spain hotspot food ban with £630 fines in place in new crackdown

From this month anyone purchasing from unauthorised street vendors will face new laws - as well as a host of changes on electric scooters, nudity, and drinking

Economics

1 week ago Children injured, wildlife slaughtered, forests ravaged: is it time to ban disposable barbecues?

Single-use grills are ‘the worst form of litter’, says the boss of Keep Britain Tidy, whose own young son was badly burned by one left on a beach. They’re also a terrible way to cook. Should shops stop selling them?Toby Tyler can still hear his son William’s scream. “That will never, ever leave us,” he says, speaking on a video call from the family home in Stockport, Greater Manchester. “But we didn’t understand what had happened. We thought he’d stood on something that had gone into his foot. It was only when he got to us and we grabbed him that we could see his foot completely stripped – all the skin had gone.”It was 2020, in a break between lockdowns, and the Tyler family – Toby and Claire, their kids Lily and William, who was nine at the time – had gone to the beach at Formby. “There was another family who’d brought a disposable barbecue which they’d used on the sand in the morning. The whole unit had cooled, so they had moved it because they were worried about the kids standing...

Events

2 w. ago Food ad ban which will 'end Christmas adverts' delayed until January

Broadcasters will voluntarily introduce the new rules from October and it will become law next year

Politics

2 w. ago Ministers to delay UK junk food advertising ban until next year

Marketing of unhealthy products to be barred before 9pm on TV but branded advertising using company names will be allowed

Politics

2 w. ago Nebraska to ban soda and energy drinks from SNAP under first USDA waiver

Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal waiver to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks under the food benefit program for low-income Americans long known as food stamps

Politics

4 w. ago Children eat more per day after watching just five minutes of junk food adverts

The finding highlights the pervasive impact of junk food marketing on children's diets

Society

4 w. ago Five minutes of junk food adverts ‘lead children to eat 130 extra calories per day’

The finding highlights the pervasive impact of junk food marketing on children's diets

Society

4 w. ago Five minutes of junk food advertising ‘leads children to eat 130 extra calories’

The Government is introducing a ban on the targeting of junk food adverts at children from October this year.

Society