9 h. ago Families urged to check school meal support before start of summer holidays

Households with two children could be entitled to between £150 and £288 over the school holidays this summer.

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33 h. ago Exact time of day Brits experience 'hanger' as it strikes 100 times a year

A new study has revealed that the average Brit gets 'hangry' 100 times a year with the most common time for 'hanger' to strike being at 2.22pm

Events

37 h. ago King Charles' rule at Windsor Castle to ensure food arrives 'on time'

Windsor Castle boasts around 450 timepieces that are changed manually twice a year, but the ones in the kitchen run at a different time to the rest

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3 d. ago Expansion of free school meals to eight local authorities including South Lanarkshire

Pupils in S1 to S3 whose families receive the Scottish Child Payment are now included.

Culture

3 d. ago Scientists find ‘remarkable’ diet to defeat insomnia within 24 hours

Findings are first to draw time-based link between day’s food choices and objectively-measured nighttime sleep

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6 d. ago Parents urged to check school meal support ahead of summer holidays

Households with two children could be entitled to between £150 and £288 over the school holidays this summer.

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7 d. ago David Ellis reviews Marvee's Food Shop: Sit back and take your sweet time at this Caribbean

David Ellis finds a tribute to the traditional Caribbean takeaway in Ladbroke Grove

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7 d. ago Free school meals warning to parents ahead of benefit being given to half a million kids

Students who are eligible for free school meals should be automatically registered to ensure no child misses out, the Education Policy Institute has demanded in a report

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7 d. ago Free school meal plan requires key change to stop children ‘missing out’, Labour told

Experts say children may not receive the meals they are eligible for

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8 d. ago West Lothian summer holiday support will include free school meals

The money is part of the free school meals programme which ensures youngsters do not lose out during the six week summer holidays which start at the end of this month.

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8 d. ago Murray asks who Scots voters ‘trust to spend’ £9.1bn rise in funding

The Scottish Secretary was speaking after Chancellor Rachel Reeves laid out her spending plans for the next three years.

Economics

8 d. ago Free school meal changes in full from today's Spending Review

The Government has announced that every pupil whose household is on Universal Credit will get free school meals from the 2026/27 academic year

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8 d. ago Revamp your tuna sandwich with this creamy twist that's healthier than mayo

A tuna salad sandwich is a lunchtime classic, but food experts say it's time to forget adding mayonnaise to your filling and use a different ingredient instead.

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1 week ago The Guardian view on child poverty: free school meals are a help, but not a panacea | Editorial

Giving lunch to more pupils is a good move – but poor nutrition points to deeper problems that ministers must faceIt was Ellen Wilkinson, education minister in the Attlee government, who announced in 1946 that free school dinners would be introduced, along with free school milk, at the same time as child benefit. No doubt Rachel Reeves, who has a picture of Wilkinson on the wall of her office, is aware of this – and also that the Treasury subsequently decided the policy was unaffordable. The meals were subsidised instead.Despite these initial charges, and later price rises, poorer children did gain, and keep, an entitlement to free school meals. The announcement last week that this is being extended in England to all those whose parents or carers claim universal credit – rather than restricted to families with incomes lower than £7,400 – should be welcomed by all objectors to child poverty. Being assured of a hot lunch in the middle of the school day makes pupils’ lives be...

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1 week ago Kindness of strangers: a woman I’d never met heard we had flu and dropped a big pot of soup at our doorstep

We’d just moved to a small town and didn’t know a soul. Then we all got sick at the same time. That food saved usRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesIt was 1996 when my husband was transferred to the small rural town of Healesville for work. In inner-city Melbourne, where we’d been living, we had a support network of neighbours, friends and family. In Healesville we didn’t know a soul. It was just me and my husband, our two little kids and two dogs.We hadn’t been there long when we all came down with the flu. It wasn’t a cold, it was the flu – complete with aching, fevers and hallucinating. It was terrible. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The kindness of strangers: a woman I’d never met heard we had flu and dropped a big pot of soup at our doorstep

We’d just moved to a small town and didn’t know a soul. Then we all got sick at the same time. That food saved usRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesIt was 1996 when my husband was transferred to the small rural town of Healesville for work. In inner-city Melbourne, where we’d been living, we had a support network of neighbours, friends and family. In Healesville we didn’t know a soul. It was just me and my husband, our two little kids and two dogs.We hadn’t been there long when we all came down with the flu. It wasn’t a cold, it was the flu – complete with aching, fevers and hallucinating. It was terrible. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Exact time to get cheap food at Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury's

There are also ways you can get free food and products if you have the right app

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1 week ago I'm the healthiest person I know, but I've been hit with bowel cancer at 39

Danni Duncan, a mother-of-three and fitness coach from Melbourne, Australia, said she developed the disease despite exercising regularly, and having a healthy diet.

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2 w. ago Eradicating child poverty must become Labour’s central mission

Editorial: After years when the party seemed to be undeclared disciples of austerity, the government’s conscience – prompted by some shocking electoral setbacks – has been awoken. For the country's sake, as well as its own, children must now be at the heart of everything it does, starting with free school meals

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2 w. ago Voices: Rachel Reeves: I saw first hand what the Tories did to kids of my generation

Conservative governments did not care about schools or communities like mine, says the chancellor, as she reveals her motivation behind Labour’s announcement to roll out free school meals for half a million children

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