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How good are service stations on UK’s best roads? From Europe’s largest truck stop, to farm shops, a scratch kitchen serving local produce… and the country’s top-rated McDonald’s
A Daily Mail feature looks at the standard of service stations found on some of Britain’s best roads, assessing what is on offer beyond the usual fuel pumps and fast-food outlets. It points to notable examples such as what is described as Europe’s largest truck stop, sites featuring farm shops and a “scratch kitchen” preparing…
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Gordon Ramsay Profiled In BBC Landmark Series ‘Rise Of The Rockstar Chef’
Gordon Ramsay is being profiled alongside fellow chefs Marco Pierre White and Heston Blumenthal in a new BBC series, The Rise of the Rockstar Chef, produced through his Studio Ramsay Global company. The programme, set during the “Cool Britannia” era, examines how the trio’s fierce ambition and rivalry transformed Britain’s restaurant scene and changed perceptions…
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Start date for new bike lane on Leopold Street in Sheffield city centre announced
Sheffield City Council has announced that work on a new cycle lane on Leopold Street in the city centre is due to begin shortly. The scheme is intended to make cycling safer and improve connections through a busy central area, although the works are likely to affect road users and nearby access while construction takes…
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Inside the mine that now grows pak choi
The world’s deepest vertical farm has launched inside Boulby Underground Laboratory, a working polyhalite and salt mine near Whitby in North Yorkshire, in a bid to grow food sustainably without the high energy costs usually associated with indoor farming. Led by the University of Sheffield in partnership with food producer Farm Urban, the pioneering research…
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Greedy family of dine-and-dashers filmed stuffing their faces with $300 of food then fleeing restaurant without paying
A family in the United States was filmed by a restaurant’s security cameras eating a substantial meal before leaving without paying, in an incident described as a brazen “dine and dash”. The footage, which has since circulated widely online, shows the group ordering and consuming food before slipping out of the venue, leaving staff to…
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Battlefield 6’s newest and largest map is good, but I worry it will end up being nothing more than a curiosity
A Eurogamer preview of Battlefield 6’s Season 4 update previews Tsuru Reef, the game’s largest map to date, set to launch the following day. The writer, having spent three hours testing all nine capture points ahead of release, praises the map’s ambitious scale and its ability to accommodate ground, air and naval combat, but expresses…
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The hunger-striking engineer demanding education reforms in India
Sonam Wangchuk, a prominent Indian engineer and activist, has been on hunger strike in Delhi since 28 June in support of youth-led protesters demanding reforms to India’s education system. He is backing a satirical online movement called the Cockroach Janta Party, formed after exam paper leaks and other scandals, and his protest has become one…
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How Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’
Elephant and Castle’s £500m redevelopment, known as “the Elephant”, is set to welcome its first commercial tenant this month, marking a milestone in the transformation of the south London landmark once known for urban deprivation. The project has replaced the area’s brutalist 1965 shopping centre and the neighbouring Heygate estate with modern towers, shops and…
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Beanies – Four decades of cooperative food in Sheffield – Now Then Sheffield
Beanies Wholefoods, a Sheffield worker co-operative founded in 1986, is approaching its 40th anniversary while continuing to operate from its Crookesmoor shop. The article argues that its shared ownership, local relationships and focus on seasonal organic food have helped it endure changes in retail, rising costs and the pandemic, offering a community-centred alternative to highly…