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Royal pastry chef shares the recipe for Queen’s fruit scones

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Scones fit for a Queen! The Royal Family’s pastry chef shares the recipe to her famous afternoon tea after this year’s garden parties are cancelled (and the trick is to put jam on FIRST) The Queen’s pastry chefs have shared the recipe for Her Majesty’s fruit scones  Scones are usually served at the garden parties … Read more

Vanessa Kirby looks stylish as she buys fruit at a petrol station

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Vanessa Kirby looks stylish in a black jacket and floral-print trousers as she buys fruit at a petrol station… after Mission: Impossible 7 stopped filming amid coronavirus By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 16:48 BST, 15 May 2020 | Updated: 17:15 BST, 15 May 2020 She was forced to head back to London after Mission: Impossible … Read more

Fruit juice increases your risk of early death – even MORE than soda, study finds

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Consuming fruit juices is just as bad for your health and likely to lead to an early death as drinking cola or lemonade, research suggests.  A new study found an increased risk of dying early from any cause for people who consumed a lot of sugary drinks.  US researchers compared, for the first time, 100 … Read more

Daily sugary fruit drink increases the risk of heart disease by 42 per cent

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SUGAR SWEETENED DRINKS  Drinking large amounts of sugar in drinks such as pop, soda and juices can lead to serious health problems, including weight gain, tooth decay and diabetes. Some drinks contain upwards of 40 grams of sugar—equivalent to about 10 teaspoons of sugar—and 200 or more calories in a 12-ounce serving. The NHS says … Read more

Merry the elephant! Eating fermented fruit gets elephant’s DRUNK

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Merry the elephant! Eating fermented fruit gets elephants DRUNK – but tiny shrews and koalas can hold their alcohol, study finds Canadian scientists discovered elephant’s lack genetic mutation called A294 V This is present in humans and other species and allows for processing of alcohol Ends a long-standing debate as to whether elephants get drunk on … Read more

Tiny ‘nanocardboard’ flyer weighing less than a fruit fly could help NASA collect samples on Mars

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A tiny ‘nanocardboard’ flyers powered by lasers and inspired by corrugated cardboard could help NASA collect evidence of life on Mars. US engineers say a fleet of the miniature aircraft could be launched from ground-based rovers and steered with light to collect chemical samples on the Red Planet. Each nanocardboard device consists of a hollow … Read more

Furloughed British workers could pick fruit and veg suggests Environment Secretary

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Minister tells furloughed workers they should get fruit-picking jobs to help farmers who are struggling to fill vacancies George Eustice expects there to be a need to recruit British harvest workers  ‘A third of the migrant labour that normally comes to the UK is here,’ he says Up to 80,000 workers, mostly from Eastern Europe, … Read more

Farm boss spent £40k flying 150 Romanian fruit pickers to UK to teach Brit land army how it’s done

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A farming boss says his company had spent £40,000 to fly 150 experienced Romanian farm workers to the UK to teach unskilled British fruit and vegetable pickers how to harvest.  Anthony Gardiner, boss at G’s Growers, says the situation was getting desperate because their regular land army of foreign workers are locked down in their … Read more

Plane carrying 150 fruit and veg pickers from Romania lands at Stansted

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The first plane carrying 150 ‘critically important’ Romanian fruit and vegetable pickers landed at Stansted this afternoon.  The young Romanians, a mix of men and women and all wearing face masks, filed out of the near empty airport in groups of five to comply with social distancing. They were then transported by buses to a … Read more