The Real Bread Loaf Mark first fifty - The number of bakeries around Britain using The Real Bread Loaf Mark to let shoppers know which loaves are additive-free has just passed fifty.

The Big Smoke’s Best Banger - The Jellied Eel magazine is teaming up with London Farmers' Markets to get Londoners to choose their favourite local farmers’ market sausage.

Celebrity Real Bread baker Tom Herbert launches Bake Your Lawn - On Monday 23 January 2012, Real Bread Campaign ambassador Tom Herbert sows the Bake Your Lawn challenge for schools around Britain: grow your own loaf!

Food Legacy features on Radio 4 Food Programme - Radio 4 investigates food for the London 2012 Olympics, and interviews Sustain, which coordinates the Food Legacy programme inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision

Real Bread workshop for Bristol teachers and cooks - On Tuesday 21 February, Square Food Foundation (formerly the Cookery School at Bordeaux Quay) hosts a one-off workshop in support of the Real Bread Campaign’s Lessons in Loaf and On the Menu schemes.

Rise in communities growing their own food to beat recession - A new report explores the rise of the new urban market gardener making money out of the hunger for ultra-local food.

Mayor awards Capital Growth’s food growing 'heroes' - London garden heroes awarded as further food growing grants round is opened

Dodgiest junk food marketing claims of the year - In a poll of a thousand people organised by the Children's Food Campaign, Chupa Chups lollipops were declared winners of the 'Dodgiest Junk Food Claim' of 2011.

Hospital patients served healthier food in Wales than in England - Good Food for Our Money campaign survey shows massive public support for introduction of legally-binding hospital food standards.

Report exposes how junk food manufacturers prey on children online - A joint Children's Food Campaign and British Heart Foundation Report reveals the manipulative tactics junk food manufacturers use to hook children while they play online.

Making Local Food Work films released - The films tell the inspiring stories of communities around the country taking control of their food and where it comes from.

Sustainable Fish City joins EU campaign to stop overfishing and promote fair use of fish - The Sustainable Fish City campaign has joined the OCEAN2012 coalition, to help call for an end to overfishing and fair use of fish, through EU fisheries policy.

Children’s Food Campaign welcomes Jamie Oliver’s exposé of decline in standard of food in academies - The Children's Food Campaign welcomes the exposé and slams the Government for declining food standards in academies.

17 London Boroughs take action on sustainable fish - Camden, Havering, Islington and Richmond top good fish league table, whilst 16 Boroughs fail to take action. How did yours fare?

Secretary of State lampooned in Parliament over Government food standards - Shadow Food and Farming Minister Huw Irranca-Davies MP today challenged Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs, to 'stop clowning around with food standards' and 'catch up with Ronald McDonald'.

How does your London Borough fare in the 2011 good food league table? - New London maps show Borough progress on food growing, school food, food waste, encouraging food outlets to serve healthier food, and buying ethical products, including Fairtrade, free range eggs and sustainable fish. How well is your Borough doing?

Eight out of 10 Londoners call for less food waste - Seventy-nine per cent of Londoners want to see businesses in the capital reduce their food waste, a survey by ethical eating magazine The Jellied Eel has revealed.

Farm antibiotics increasing the threat of untreatable human diseases - A new report Case Study of a Health Crisis finds there has been an alarming rise in new farm superbugs, especially MRSA and E. coli that are passing to humans.

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