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EU drops plan to ban dipping bowls of olive oil

Widespread criticism from the hospitality industry and consumers appears to have led bureaucrats in Brussels to have scrapped the proposed regulations, which were described by Martin Couchman, the deputy chief executive of the British Hospitality Association (BHA) as “a nonsense”.

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The Samling Hotel appoints former Noma chef James Cross

Cross joins the Lake District property from the Danish restaurant that has was voted the world’s best for three consecutive years.

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Chef who loses sense of smell in random attack angry after thug spared jail

Stephen Mountford suffered multiple fractures to the nose when he was head butted and beaten by Gordon Stephenson – and now has to ask supportive colleagues to smell and taste food he is preparing.

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