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The UK is eating far too much sugar and the efforts of Public Health England to cajole the food industry into cutting down for the sake of our health are having very little effect. The latest PHE report shows another tiny reduction in the sugar content of our favourite packaged foods of 2.9%, following 2% last year. The chances of hitting the 2020 target of a total of 20% are vanishingly small.If you look at the actual amount of sugar we bought and probably ate last year probably ate, because we waste food too , its gone up by 2.6%. We binged on lollies and ice-creams because of the hot summer 鈥?16.3% more sugar starbucks stanley cup was sold for ice-cream, lollies and sorbets, 10.4% for chocolate confectionery, 6.4% for sweet spreads and sauces, 4.9% for sweet confectionery and 3.1% for biscuits.What that tells us is firstly, that the Brits have a very sweet tooth and secondly, tha stanley mugs t we see no reason to stint ourselves. We are drinking a lot less sugar in our lemonades and other fizzy drinks, but thats because the manufacturers have dumped a load of sugar to keep the price down.Its relatively easy in drinks, where sugar can be exchanged for sweeteners. And most manufacturers and supermarket chains wanted to get below the 5g per 100ml, which attracts a levy of 18p per litre and certainly below 8g per 100ml which hikes the price by 24p per litre. So the drinks tax is working. PHE says there is an impressive sugar reduction of nearly 29%. Even though Coca-Cola and Pe stanley quencher psi have opted out rather than ch Zqtd One in four adults in UK to buy now, pay later for Christmas, study shows
British nationality laws are to be reformed to remove a number of anomalies that have recently led to people from the Windrush generation being refused citizenship 鈥?despite the Home Office admitting that its own errors led to them being ruled ineligible.The Guardian has highlighted the cases of several people who have been refused British citizenship because they have been out of the country for too long, even though they were exiled from the UK as a result of Home Office mistakes.Fixes to the law will be introduced as part of wider changes to the immigration system and will give the home secretary discretion to overrule residence requirements, which have made it impossible for officials to grant citizenship to people who were wrongly deported or prevented from returning home to the UK because of the Home Offices Windrush scandal.A source said Priti Patel, the home secretary, had been frustrated that the rules meant officials were unable to grant British citizenship to people such as Trevor Donald, who was wrongly prevented from returning to the UK after travelling to Jamaica for his mothers funeral in 2010.At that point he had been in Britain for 43 years, having arrived as an 11-year-old to live in Birmingham, legally, in 1967. He was stuck in Jamaica, destitute, for nine years before stanley cup officials recognised that they had made a mistake in preventing him from retu stanley italia rn stanley kubek ing, and flew him back to the UK. However, he was subsequently refused citizenship because of the length of time
The UK is eating far too much sugar and the efforts of Public Health England to cajole the food industry into cutting down for the sake of our health are having very little effect. The latest PHE report shows another tiny reduction in the sugar content of our favourite packaged foods of 2.9%, following 2% last year. The chances of hitting the 2020 target of a total of 20% are vanishingly small.If you look at the actual amount of sugar we bought and probably ate last year probably ate, because we waste food too , its gone up by 2.6%. We binged on lollies and ice-creams because of the hot summer 鈥?16.3% more sugar starbucks stanley cup was sold for ice-cream, lollies and sorbets, 10.4% for chocolate confectionery, 6.4% for sweet spreads and sauces, 4.9% for sweet confectionery and 3.1% for biscuits.What that tells us is firstly, that the Brits have a very sweet tooth and secondly, tha stanley mugs t we see no reason to stint ourselves. We are drinking a lot less sugar in our lemonades and other fizzy drinks, but thats because the manufacturers have dumped a load of sugar to keep the price down.Its relatively easy in drinks, where sugar can be exchanged for sweeteners. And most manufacturers and supermarket chains wanted to get below the 5g per 100ml, which attracts a levy of 18p per litre and certainly below 8g per 100ml which hikes the price by 24p per litre. So the drinks tax is working. PHE says there is an impressive sugar reduction of nearly 29%. Even though Coca-Cola and Pe stanley quencher psi have opted out rather than ch Zqtd One in four adults in UK to buy now, pay later for Christmas, study shows
British nationality laws are to be reformed to remove a number of anomalies that have recently led to people from the Windrush generation being refused citizenship 鈥?despite the Home Office admitting that its own errors led to them being ruled ineligible.The Guardian has highlighted the cases of several people who have been refused British citizenship because they have been out of the country for too long, even though they were exiled from the UK as a result of Home Office mistakes.Fixes to the law will be introduced as part of wider changes to the immigration system and will give the home secretary discretion to overrule residence requirements, which have made it impossible for officials to grant citizenship to people who were wrongly deported or prevented from returning home to the UK because of the Home Offices Windrush scandal.A source said Priti Patel, the home secretary, had been frustrated that the rules meant officials were unable to grant British citizenship to people such as Trevor Donald, who was wrongly prevented from returning to the UK after travelling to Jamaica for his mothers funeral in 2010.At that point he had been in Britain for 43 years, having arrived as an 11-year-old to live in Birmingham, legally, in 1967. He was stuck in Jamaica, destitute, for nine years before stanley cup officials recognised that they had made a mistake in preventing him from retu stanley italia rn stanley kubek ing, and flew him back to the UK. However, he was subsequently refused citizenship because of the length of time