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The root vegetable cassava – similar in looks to a sweet potato – is commonly eaten across Africa and because its flour is naturally gluten-free, it finds its way into a host of “free from” products. The BBC’s Vumani Mkhize meets the

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Shares in Greene King have slumped 11% after the pub group reported a fall in sales over the summer and issued a downbeat outlook.Like-for-like sales fell 1.2% in the 18 weeks to 3 September, mainly due to a drop in “value food” sales.Greene King said it

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The owner of the Daily Mirror has said it is in talks to buy the owner of the Daily Express and Daily Star.Trinity Mirror said it was in talks to buy all of the publishing assets of Northern & Shell, which also produces the celebrity magazine OK!.It had previously

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Beijing has become the latest city in China to ban new shared bikes as the country battles against two-wheel traffic chaos and safety concerns in urban areas. New deliveries of bikes to the city’s 15 sharing schemes will be suspended, a government statement on

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Pilots at leisure airline Thomas Cook have gone on strike in a dispute over pay, in what unions say is the first strike by UK pilots since the 1970s.Members of the British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa) walked out at 3 o’clock on Friday morning.Thomas

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The Conservative party’s split on Brexit continues to affect the process, former Treasury minister Lord Jim O’Neill has told the BBC.Lord O’Neill, who left government a year ago, said much of the “rationale for Brexit” had been to deal

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Bell Pottinger’s Asian unit has said it will separate from its British parent, amid reports the public relations firm is nearing collapse. Bell Pottinger’s UK business is expected to go into administration as early as next week, the firm said. The Asian

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Media playback is unsupported on your device It’s Friday and across the country, people will soon be clocking off with a glass of fizz. Sales of the Italian wine are soaring faster than you can say “I’ll be there in a prosecco”, but

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About 143 million US customers of credit report giant Equifax may have had information compromised in a cyber security breach, the company has disclosed.Equifax said criminals accessed data such as Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses during the

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