Muddy spuds back on the shop shelves
TESCO is selling muddy spuds for the first time since the 70s to cut waste.
The supermarket says leaving potatoes unwashed helps to block out light and slow decay – potentially doubling shelf life.
Spuds are the food most likely to be binned, says waste action group Wrap.
Tesco said a trial of the muddy potatoes in Bristol was a success.
BORIS Johnson is developing a £9million crisis bunker beneath Whitehall.
The PM will join ministers and spy chiefs in the “situation centre” to tackle national security issues.
The facility under 70 Whitehall, in London, will take over from Cobra as the meeting point for emergencies and link to Downing Street via a tunnel network.
NIGEL Farage yesterday announced he is quitting frontline politics – again.
He resigned as leader of Reform UK, claiming Brexit meant his job was done.
But the 56-year-old made clear we haven’t seen the last of him. He said: “I will continue to play my part through media, social media and new projects.”
The former City trader, who failed in seven attempts to become an MP has quit politics several times.
He led UKIP from September 2006 to November 2009, and again from November 2010.
Then he stood down in May 2015 having failed to win a Parliamentary seat, but U-turned days later. He walked out again in 2016.
From 2019 he headed the Brexit Party, which last year became Reform UK.
A BLAST from Italy’s Mount Etna volcano sent out a cloud of ash and lava stone on to Sicilian villages.
Italy’s national volcanology institute said the powerful explosion was the 10th such eruption since February 16.