McDonald's has begun to offer fruit snack bags as well as salad as an alternative to fries in its value meals. The global fast food giant has already introduced the change in France and will roll it out to other countries including the UK over the next three years.
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By holding out the "possibility" of a seasonal agricultural workers scheme (SAWS), the Migration Advisory Committee's (MAC) long-awaited final report, published this week, makes an exception for fresh produce amid its wider call for a shift away from low-skill immigration.
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The publication of the Agriculture Bill this week formally kick-starts the Government's plans to implement a "green Brexit" for farming, the area of the economy most impacted by the UK's withdrawal from the EU from next March.
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