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A schoolgirl who blogged about her school dinners has been made to stop.

A nine year old schoolgirl whose blog about her school dinners has had over two million hits has been told she's got to stop taking photos of the meals.

Seven weeks ago a nine year old girl started a blog called "Never Seconds" from her home on the west coast of Scotland about her school dinners. Martha Payne took photographs, rated the meals and commented on them for a school writing project. Her posts have inspired other pupils across the world to send photos of their own school lunches. As of last night Martha who calls herself "VEG" on the website has received more than two million hits. However the project which even got the attention of school dinner campaigner and chef Jamie Oliver who called the blog is "shocking but inspirational" now looks to be over after Martha was called out of a lesson by her Head Teacher yesterday and told that she could no longer take the photos, apparently at the request of Argyll and Bute Council after a headline in THE DAILY RECORD newspaper which read "time to fire the dinner ladies".  In what could be her final post last night VEG said: "I am sad I am no longer allowed to take photos. I will miss sharing and rating my school dinners and I'll miss seeing the dinners you send me too. I don't think I will be able to finish raising enough money for a kitchen for Mary's Meals either."

Also three MPs who've decided to break their silence on their own personal history of mental health problems. Their revelations came during a debate on the amount of NHS funding dedicated to treating mental health problems - which was described as a Cinderella service, poorly funded, and not spoken about nearly enough either inside or outside the House of Commons.

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