Marks and Spencer has promised to continue paying the free range egg price to producers who are having to keep birds indoors after the end of February. In the United Kingdom, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs issued the housing order in anticipation, before cases were reported in Wales and Northern England.
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Free range egg labels explain ‘temporarily housed’ hens
Marks and Spencer has promised to continue paying the free range egg price to producers who are having to keep birds indoors after the end of February. In the United Kingdom, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs issued the housing order in anticipation, before cases were reported in Wales and Northern England.
Keighley Town Council issues warning to fend off bird flu threat
OUTBREAKS of avian flu creeping closer to Keighley have prompted Keighley Town Council’s allotments officer to issue a warning to allotment holders who keep poultry or other captive birds. Lee Senior said the council is aware of instances of this disease as close as Gargrave and Addingham , adding that the town council is continuing to take advice from the Government’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.
Appeal for alternative therapists to volunteer time for veterans
… or lack of good quality sleep, is a very common complaint from those with either a physical injury or mental health illness,” said Ms Thistlethwaite, “We all know that, if we don’t get enough sleep, we don’t function properly the next day – but …
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The Finnish government has set an ambitious goal for residents in a bid to benefit their health — and their bank balances. Officials plan to make the country tobacco-free by 2040, meaning they want less than 2% of their adults to consume tobacco — in any form — by that deadline.
Reddit’s CEO got laser eye surgery to prepare for the apocalypse
The chances of a full-blown apocalypse might be slim, but Reddit CEO and cofounder Steve Huffman is not taking any chances. As Evan Osnos details in a recent New Yorker piece , Huffman got laser eye surgery in November 2015 to improve his odds at surviving doomsday.
Plans for new 10m cancer centre for North Yorkshire are unveiled
An artist’s impression of the planned cancer centre at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton, the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre The multi-million pound development will expand cancer services at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton and work could potentially begin on the development this summer if planning permission is granted. This is his third similar project in partnership with the charity and the building would be known as the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre.
Bird flu strain may have jumped from cat to human
… this would be the first known transmission of this bird flu strain from cat to human, officials said. New York City health officials said the vet has recovered from a mild illness, and there’s no sign that the flu has spread to shelter workers or …