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Belgium has admitted it knew in June that eggs from Dutch farms might be contaminated with an insecticide – a month before the issue became public.The information was not shared because of a fraud investigation, a spokeswoman for Belgium’s food safety

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On New Year’s Day 1909, more than half a million people aged 70 and more, who had worked all their lives, had passed a means test and were of good character queued up at their post offices for an old age pension of five shillings a week (25p) – around £20

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The UK needs a “credible fallback” in case no EU trade deal is reached during Brexit negotiations, former Bank of England governor Mervyn King has said.Lord King said British negotiators needed to show Brussels the country has an alternative over a bad

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How do you food shop for Armageddon? The Food Chain meets the man selling food to people who fear for the future. Surfer-turned-survivalist Lincoln Miles runs the Preppers Shop UK, stocking everything from tinned food to NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) suits. For

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Asian groceries used to be available only through specialist supermarkets, but now home delivery services are bringing foods such as raw turmeric and Alphonso mangoes to a wider audience.You can order pretty much anything online these days – and now that

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Standard Chartered is set to spend about $20m (£15.4m) to turn its Frankfurt office into a European base due to Brexit.The bank plans to create a subsidiary at its German branch to maintain access to the European market after Britain withdraws from the European

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Former pharmaceutical chief executive Martin Shkreli has been found guilty of three counts of securities fraud.A New York City jury cleared him on five other counts after five days of deliberations.He was on trial in relation to a drug company he previously headed,

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has called for “unique solutions” to preserve the relationship between the UK and the European Union after Brexit.On his first official visit to Northern Ireland, he raised the

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A former Volkswagen executive has pleaded guilty for his role in the German automaker’s scheme to cheat US emissions requirements for diesel cars.Oliver Schmidt, a former head of VW’s engineering and environmental office in the US, admitted to

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