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Near and far
Tesco supermarket claims customers who buy its Localchoice milk are “helping to support their local community”. But the Heart of England milk it sells in Hereford is produced at dairy farms in Lincolnshire and Derbyshire, a three-hour drive away.A spokesman for Tesco insisted that local "means different things to different people".
Daily Mail
Beware drunk pedestrians
Councillors are due to meet this morning to decide whether to shut a Southport road - because the people walking down it are so drunk they are making it too dangerous for cars to drive down.
Southport Visitor (Stuart Haddock)
To sleep, perchance . . .
The outcome of a drugs trial was not adversely affected by the way the judge kept falling asleep, a court has ruled. Judge Ian Dodd nodded off during the hearing in 2004, but the criminal appeal court last month ruled: "That a judge must be constantly attentive is not a fundamental requirement."
Sunday Times (Sigrid Rabiger)
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