A Cornish cheese has beaten more than 100 cheeses from around the UK to win a prestigious award. Sue Proudfoot makes Cornish Crumbly, a cheese which is handmade in small batches at her farm near Bude. The chief judge at the British Cheese Awards in Cardiff described it as having "a mildly acidic yet fresh taste with a delightful zing on the finish". Mrs Proudfoot also makes three other cheeses at her dairy.

Some scientists have said that energy drinks should carry warnings. The so called "performance drinks" can often contain as much caffeine as at least ten cans of coke. Recently there have been concerned that caffeine dependency is causing disruption and concentration among school children in the classroom. A drink such as Relentless made by Coca Cola contains 160mg of caffeine in a 500ml can whilst a 248ml can of Spike Shooter contains 300mg of caffeine, nearly ten times the amount in cola. Scientists have said that consumers need more information about what is in the drinks and that they should also be warned about the potential health risks such as caffeine intoxication.

Tesco has recalled its White Rabbit Creamy Candies after they were found to contain melamine. Melamine has recently been found in formula milk in China and is thought to have caused the death of four babies and made around 53,000 children ill. Although the sweets are not thought to have made anyone ill, Tesco are withdrawing them as a precaution.

This is interesting, its a firm that allows companies to produce pictures of their advertising in space. What the company called JP Aerospace does, is launch a billboard into space that contains the advertisers logo and message and then take pictures of it. They use specially constructed balloons to send the billboard 20 miles into the air. Then they take hundreds of pictures of it and return it to Earth by parachute. The result is something like the picture on the left.

According to the Royal Mint there are now around 30 million fake £1 coins in circulation meaning that one in 50 is now counterfeit. The question is, how do spot a fake one? This article should help. It contains this diagram which compares a fake and a real coin. Signs that you have a fake are a poorly defined ribbed edge, the wrong typeface and an indistinct or blurred design.

A dental surgery has opened in a supermarket in Manchester. The surgery has been opened at the Sale branch of Sainsbury's becoming the first dentist clinic to open in a UK supermarket. It will be open seven days a week and follows a similar initiative to open a GP surgery in a supermarket. The dental surgery will charge £16 for a check up which is slightly less than the current NHS charge of £16. It is hoped that it will make dental treatment more accessible and convenient for the patients. 

A leading expert has said that everyone should have at least one meat free a week to help save the planet. He says that meat farming produces enormous amounts of greenhouse gases and that if every ate vegetables just once a week it would be more beneficial than other measures such as cutting car journeys.

I have noticed recently that the economy bin bags I usually buy in Sainsbury's seem thinner. Whilst they look the same I have found that they appear to more prone to spitting and tearing often resulting in my rubbish ending up all over the floor. To combat the problem I have stopped buying the economy bags and have now started to buy premium sacks which cost more. Whilst I have no proof that the sacks have been made thinner this article made me wonder whether I am right. It highlights the fact that Sevenoaks District Council have started using thinner bags because of rising oil costs. They have reduced the thickness of the bags by one micron in order to save £17,000 from their budget.