UK Tesco

Charlie Thomas

Family Butchers Benefit From Horsemeat Scandal - But For How Long?

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 27.02.2013 | UK

Family butchers have reported a surge in sales following the fallout of the horsemeat scandal, but the spike could disappear unless action is taken to...

Tesco Ditches Meat Supplier

PA | Posted 11.02.2013 | UK

Tesco has became the latest firm to drop a major supplier after discovering a range of spaghetti bolognese ready meals contained more than 60% horse m...

Charlie Thomas

Can Findus Restore Consumer Confidence?

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 08.02.2013 | UK

On Friday afternoon, frozen food giant Findus reiterated its apology over some of its beef lasagne products containing horse meat, saying it was "sorr...

Meat 'Could Have Been Deliberately Contaminated With Horse'

The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 08.02.2013 | UK

British police are investigating the horse meat scandal after tests showed Findus beef lasagnes contained up to 100% of the product, the Food Standard...

'Call In The Police Over Horse Meat Scandal'

The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 08.02.2013 | UK

Police have been urged to launch an investigation into the growing horse meat scandal after lasagne emerged as the latest contaminated product. Min...

Two Supermarkets Withdraw Ready Meals Over Meat Scare

PA | Posted 07.02.2013 | UK

Frozen spaghetti and lasagne meals have been stripped from supermarket shelves as fears over contaminated meat products spread. Retail giant Tesco ...

Are Food and Drinks Companies Feeding Us Nonsense?

Nigel Salter | Posted 08.04.2013 | UK
Nigel Salter

Strangely enough, according to some commentators, the health impacts of this scandal could actually have been positive, with the lean horsemeat making the burgers healthier. But somehow I don't think this was done with our health in mind.

Food Standards Agency To Meet With Retailers

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 04.02.2013 | UK

Major retailers and suppliers are to meet the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to work out how to prevent food becoming contaminated and entering the suppl...

Tesco Ex-Boss Says Rise Of Supermarkets, Driving Our Small Shops, Is 'Progress'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 03.02.2013 | UK

Former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy has described the rise of supermarkets and the closure of small shops across the country as "part of progress". S...

Horse Offcuts In Burgers 'Came From Poland

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.01.2013 | UK

Not only did we find out how prevalent the Polish language was in Britain on Wednesday, but also how widespread their horses (or bits of them) are too...

Tesco: 'Horsemeat Burgers Did Not Come From UK'

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.01.2013 | UK

Tesco has vowed to DNA test its meat after the horsemeat scandal, saying the rogue burgers from supplier Silvercrest, "did not come from the list of a...

Horsemeat In Burgers 'From Polish Suppliers'

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 27.01.2013 | UK

Poland is the source of the controversial horsemeat used in burgers sold in British supermarkets, the Irish agriculture minister has said. Silvercr...

Horsemeat Scare: Waitrose Latest To Pull Beefburgers From Shelves

PA | Posted 25.01.2013 | UK

Upmarket supermarket Waitrose has become the latest retailer to pull beefburgers from its shelves in the horsemeat scare. The company said it had t...

Supermarkets and the Christmas Marketing War

Josh Krichefski | Posted 25.03.2013 | UK
Josh Krichefski

It has been an interesting start to 2013 as far as the retail sector is concerned. We've seen the likes of HMV and Jessops collapse and we've heard all about how the big retailers - supermarkets especially - fared over the competitive Christmas period.

I Could Eat A Horse

Victoria Glass | Posted 24.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Victoria Glass

Horsemeat has been put in the spotlight due to the discovery of horse DNA in frozen burgers sold as beef in Tesco, Lidl, Iceland and Aldi. Although widely eaten in Europe, horsemeat has long tipped the controversy scales in the UK, but is our beef with eating equines ultimately hurting our horses?

LOOK: New UK Monopoly Board Unveiled

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 24.01.2013 | UK Comedy

Hasbro has updated the UK version of Monopoly in order to "more accurately reflect the average British high street". Check it out - and below it, some...

Local Markets 'Cheaper' Than Supermarkets For Fresh Veg, Ch 4 Finds

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 21.01.2013 | UK

Supermarkets have hiked up the price of fresh fruit and vegetables, meaning markets and local shops are up to 35% cheaper for healthy food, an investi...

The Week In Funny Tweets (Contains Less Than 29% Horse Jokes)

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.01.2013 | UK Comedy

From "My Lidl Pony" to #horsemeatgate, the week on Twitter - at least if you were a. British and b. looking for funnies - was dominated by the Tesco h...

WATCH: Horse Invades Tesco

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.01.2013 | UK Comedy

They're mad as hell and they're not going to take it any more!! The horses, that is. Yes, shocked - as we all are - by the Tesco horsemeat scand...

What Kind Of Week Has It Been? 18 January, 2013

Paddy Duffy | Posted 18.03.2013 | UK Politics
Paddy Duffy

We learned this week that Irish rappers don't have beefs with their rivals, they have a combination of beef, horse and pork.

Revealed: What Goes Into Other Tesco Value Products

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.01.2013 | UK Comedy

The results of HuffPost UK Comedy's research are pretty shocking, we think you'll agree: (Scientific study carried out by comedy nutritionists ...

12 Ingredients You Didn't Expect To Find In Your Food

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle

You are what you eat, as the saying goes. So if recent revelations are anything to go by, and you've ever found yourself chowing down on a beefbur...

Horse Meat Found In Beef Burgers In UK and Ireland

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.01.2013 | UK

Horse meat has been found in beef burger products, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. The beef burger products which tested positiv...

Charlie Thomas

Tesco's Turnaround Gathers Steam As Christmas Figures Beat The Competition

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 10.01.2013 | UK

Supermarket giant Tesco has outperformed its rivals with a 1.8% like-for-like sales growth for the Christmas trading period. The positive figures w...

Tesco Retro

Rosie Fenton | Posted 10.03.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Rosie Fenton

This particular Tesco has sorted its magazines by placing those magazines, and others, into 'Men's interests'. It's the ignorance that I find most depressing, apparently no one has had a brainwave that a woman might be interested in wider affairs.