“It’s not good enough for diners to be treated as cheapskates just because they asked for tap water.”
Yve Buckland, chair of the UK’s Consumer Council for Water, launching an initiative to persuade restaurants to stop pushing bottled water at customers – the transport of which accounts for 32 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year in the UK (The Guardian, London, 11 February)
“A lot of arranged marriages are with first cousins, and that produces lots of genetic problems in terms of disability.”
UK environment minister Phil Woolas warns that inbreeding has triggered a surge in birth defects (The Sunday…
