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The event is being run jointly by Essex County Council, Maldon District Council and Tastes of Anglia, a regional food and drink group that promotes local produce in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex

The festival will offer al fresco dining, dance and street art performance, stalls providing Bangladeshi snacks and sweets and entertainment such as ushers in traditional Indian costumes, snake charme

Hyun You Im (Honey) and Daniel Inniss-Fitzhugh received the news in front of 200 industry colleagues at the Craft Guild of Chefs' Graduate Awards at the Sheraton Hotel, Park Lane in London.

The first class, which kicks off on 12 October from 10.00am to 4.30pm, focuses on making traditional and contemporary Italian dishes.

Other high fliers in the hospitality sector included Katie Watson, from the Gleneagles Hotel, who won bronze in the restaurant service category, while Alistair Birt from Thames Valley University picke

The new BMA report, "Under the Influence", also renews the call for other tough measures such as a minimum price per unit on alcoholic drinks and for them to be taxed higher than the rate of inflation

The research, carried out for the Food and Drink Federation's (FDF) Frozen Food group by Insight Track Ltd, also found that 81% of respondents who buy branded frozen food do so as it has a good taste

Toby Beevers takes up his new position on September 14 after spending the past nine months catering for the cast and crew of popular Channel 4 soap Holly Oaks. Beevers, who formerly worked as a pastry

V8 Gourmet has a retail division encompassing restaurant brands Vama, Tiffinbites and The Bombay Bicycle Club, along with a wholesale division with contract catering, airline catering and outdoor even

The Chefs for Heroes gala dinner is being hosted by The Lanesborough's chef de patron, Paul Gayler, and dished up by an army of chefs from the UK's top restaurants including Andrew Bennett, Gary Klane