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TWO five-star caterers have found the real plaice they want to be - at the helm of a fish bar.
After a short time on the road running a burger van, sisters Christine Marshall and Joanne Parrott, alongside their parents Mary and John Westerman, have netted a popular fish and chip shop in Cleethorpes.
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TAKEAWAYS and food businesses across Middlesbrough are as safe and clean as they've ever been.
Checks by Middlesbrough Council's Community Protection Service have revealed an all-time high in hygiene standards.
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DOZENS of East Riding pubs, cafes and restaurants have been told to make major improvements to food hygiene standards, the Mail can reveal. Ninety businesses have been classed as needing "urgent" or "major" improvements after unannounced visits from East Riding Council's environmental health inspectors. Since the authority joined the Food Hygiene Ratings Scheme a year ago, 15 business have been given a grade of zero - meaning they need urgent improvements.
A further 75 were given a rating of one, which means they need to make major improvements. The results are today published for the first time.
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CATERING staff at Polam Hall School in Darlington have received top marks for their standards of food hygiene.
The school has been awarded a five-star Tees Valley Food Hygiene Award rating.
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A FOUR-STAR hotel, an award winning cafe, a fire station, butchers shops, care homes and schools are all failing to meet the most basic food hygiene standards.
More than 400 establishments across North Wales have fallen foul of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) food hygiene rating scheme.
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TAKEAWAYS have long been the subject of the odd joke or snide put- down.
But now it seems those off-the-cuff remarks may have a basis in fact as a new report reveals nearly half of Wales' takeaways are failing to comply with basic food hygiene standards.
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Food safety inspections have been a role of Derby City Council's environmental officers for decades. For two years the council has been converting the inspections into a star rating for hygiene as part of its Scores on the Doors scheme. Local government correspondent Kirsty Green went on an inspection to see how the system works.
THE sight and smell of a delicious home-made pie is enough to encourage most people to get out the knife and fork and start tucking in.
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THE Echo can today reveal the reasons why 11 food premises in Cardiff scored zero in new food hygiene ratings compiled by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
The rock-bottom ratings were handed out after inspections by Cardiff council food safety officers since October and reveal habitual bad practice that could potentially lead to contamination.
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THE number of outlets meeting food-hygiene standards has missed a tough Derby City Council target.
The authority's performance statistics show that the percentage of premises which broadly met the Food Standards Agency guidelines was 88.9 for the first three months of this year.
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Via the ratings, you can find out if a restaurant, takeaway or food shop you want to eat at or buy food from has good food hygiene standards.
The food hygiene rating or inspection result given to a business reflects the standards of food hygiene found on the date of inspection or visit by the local authority.