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You and Yours: Bread waste, Meals on planes, Quitting smoking

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29/09/2016

Bread waste, Meals on planes, Quitting smoking

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Bread waste, Meals on planes, Quitting smoking

A food waste charity says it's receiving tonnes of over-produced supermarket bread.

Supermarkets are baking bread as 'marketing material' according to a food waste charity. They tell You & Yours they are struggling to redistribute tonnes of waste bread.

Supermarkets are baking more bread in-store than they can sell according to three big food waste charities. You & Yours visits The Real Junk Food Project who say they are struggling to redistribute tonnes of waste bread, which is being baked to be 'seen and smelt' as marketing material. How much goes unsold and what happens to it?

Rural bus services are on the decline. In Wales the problem is particularly acute with three bus companies folding this summer. Ken Skates is the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure at the Welsh Assembly. He's got a plan to keep Welsh buses on the road, but are they in permanent decline?

British Airways are to start charging for food on flights under three hours long. They'll be selling sandwiches in the air, but these aren't just any sandwiches, these are Marks and Spencer's sandwiches, because they've done an exclusive deal. Simon Calder sounds the death knell for free short-haul meals.

There are now twice as many ex-smokers than smokers. Next month the NHS wants more people to become smoke free for Stoptober. There are still an estimated 7 million smokers yet to quit and Yvonne Bailey is one of them. In January she told Winifred Robinson 2016 was going to be the year she did it, how is she getting on?

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Rebecca Maxted.

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