February 19, 2010 – 3:56 pm
What words come to mind when you read the words ‘Fairtrade’? Bananas? Tea? Chocolate? How about roses, olive oil or Lincolnshire? No?
Well actually, yes! I live in Louth in Lincolnshire and we’re one of 460 Fairtrade Towns in the UK.
This year Louth will be supporting the annual ‘Fairtrade Fortnight’ between February 22nd and 7th March [...]
December 28, 2009 – 9:00 am
If you’re reading this after Christmas whilst you await the New Year then welcome to Week 52 of 2009. Cleaning, visiting relatives, thinking up ever inventive ways to use up the turkey leftovers, hitting the sales - what do you do in week 52?
This week can be a bit of a ‘dead week’, somewhat of [...]
Could your lunchtime sandwich be making you fat? It might sound farfetched but the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed that ‘men gain about a quarter of their calories, and women a fifth, from dining out in restaurants, buying a sandwich for lunch or ordering a takeaway’. But do you know how many calories are [...]
