Children's Food Campaign wins fight against product placement of junk food - Children’s food campaigners today declared victory in their campaign to stop the Government introducing product placement of junk food in UK-made television programmes.

£75,000 now available for ‘grow your own’ schemes - The cash is available as part of the Capital Growth scheme, supported by the Mayor of London and managed by London Food Link, which encourages Londoners to grow their own food in under-used areas of the capital.

Victory imminent on product placement? - According to today’s Guardian, the Government is about to announce that the Children’s Food Campaign and our supporters have won a major victory to protect young people from product placement of junk food:

Parents furious over 'hypocrisy' of cereal ad - Read The Independent article about Change4Life-partner Kellogg's outrageous adverts encouraging children to eat Coco Pops after school.

Fifteen’s head baker teams up with the Real Bread Campaign for National Apprenticeship Week - Head baker Kenny Rankin will be sharing his knowledge of artisan bakery with the Real Bread Campaign in a bid to highlight the importance of bakery apprenticeships during National Apprenticeship Week (1-5 February).

Mayor launches competition to get London’s school kids growing their own food - London's primary school children are being encouraged to grow their own fruit and vegetables by the Mayor, Boris Johnson, through a new Capital Growth schools competition launched today (Thursday 21 January).

Celebrity chef Loyd Grossman joins attack on government for hospital food failure - Loyd Grossman responds to the Good Food for Our Money campaign's 'A Decade of Hospital Food Failure' report by declaring 'it is a scandal that improving hospital catering remains far from the top of the NHS agenda'.

Government wastes over £50m on hospital food failure - The Government has wasted over £50 million since the year 2000 on at least 17 separate initiatives to improve hospital food, which have resulted in almost no improvement to the quality of meals served, or to their nutritional and environmental value.

London 2012 Games must ‘go for gold’ with Olympic food standards - Campaigners for health and the environment broadly welcomed today’s announcement by the organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games [1] that they have committed to serving healthier, ethical and more sustainable food. The Olympic organisers have gone for gold in some areas – promising to serve only sustainable fish, fairly traded food and drinks, and encouraging caterers to use local and seasonal food.

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